Kefala is the Fire

The Kefala system violates the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document to which Lebanon is a signatory.

Kefala is the Arabic word for “sponsorship”. It is an insidious system whereby the oversight of migrant worker rights is extricated from labor ministries and diverted into the unregulated hands of private citizens across the Middle East. In effect, this translates to an egregious lack of accountability.

English | January 8, 2019