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Efforts to ease the evacuation of foreign workers
11-6-2020
The minister of labor, Lamia Yammine, yesterday met a delegation of the International Organization for Mirgration (IOM) led by Beirut Head Office Director, Fawzi Zayut, and discussed the precarious situation of migrant workers. Recalling, that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the evacuation of foreign laborers, specifically that of migrant domestic workers, and mainly Ethiopian MWDWs, has been delayed so far in terms of travel and compulsory quarantine costs (https://bit.ly/3f84SxS). Zayut said after the meeting that discussions covered areas of cooperation between IOM and the ministry in relation to the foreign workforce and the mechanism of assistance on part of the international agency's efforts to mitigate the difficulties the ministry is facing in this respect. This, according to Zayut, includes provision of voluntary repatriation of foreign workers in coordination with the labor-sending countries and involved parties, as well as joint action with governmental agencies and NGOs in the post-Corona period within an institutional framework. Yamin, Zayut concluded, has been updated on OIM’s plans and programs in the area of combating trafficking in persons and border management. (Al Diyar, June 11, 2020)
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