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July 3, 2020 | English
Access to healthcare by migrant workers is very restricted in Lebanon, due to the nature of the employment model to which they are tied – known as the Kafala system – which makes them dependent on a sponsor. The mental health of migrant workers – many of whom are young women – reflects the hardships they have endured while living and working in Lebanon.
July 3, 2020 | English
Bewildered and scared, Ife, an Ethiopian domestic worker, explains how just a few hours ago she thought she was on her way to Beirut airport. “So you can fly home,” her cash-strapped employer had said while pushing her out of the car in front of the Ethiopian embassy.
July 2, 2020 | Pidgin
Regina say dem lock her inside one room with oda girls for three days without food and water and with for sale sign round her neck
June 30, 2020 | English
Lebanon's economic crisis is hitting foreign domestic workers particularly hard. Because many employers can no longer afford to pay their wages, many kick the women out onto the streets.
June 29, 2020 | English
There are 250,000 registered foreign workers in Lebanon
Maids have been abandoned by their employers due to the country's economic crisis
Due to coronavirus travel restrictions, they say they cannot get home
June 29, 2020 | English
The global COVID-19 pandemic is not the root cause of migrant exploitation, discrimination and vulnerability but it does act as a magnifying lens.
June 29, 2020 | English
While much of the US and other Western countries remain convulsed with Black Lives Matter protests, the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region should use this moment to address its own problem of anti-black racism. From Basra to Beirut and from Tunis to Tel Aviv, anti-black racism exists in various forms across the region.
June 28, 2020 | English
Women and girls who work in the homes of Lebanon's wealthy say they have long been subjected to violence and mistreatment. But as the country's economic crisis spirals, they're now being abandoned.
June 27, 2020 | English
His tenure was marked by scandals and more recently inaction in the aftermath of 150 Ethiopian women being thrown outside the consulate by their employers.
June 27, 2020 | English
The recent incidents of Ethiopian maids being dumped by their employers yet again reveals how Lebanon's unregulated Kafala system affects people of colour.