Lebanon is home to more than 250,000 migrant domestic workers who’re mostly women. Long before the pandemic or the worsening economic crisis, these women have been vulnerable to physical, verbal, and sexual abuse, because the Lebanese Kafala system (a sponsorship system of domestic-indentured servitude) is what keeps these women abandoned outside embassies, with no autonomy, and can only return to their home countries with their employer’s consent.
Lebanon: 3 Fundraisers to Help out Migrants Workers
As the Lebanese economic crisis worsens by the day, thousands of migrant workers remain stuck in limbo as they struggle to leave the country. Since June, dozens of migrant domestic workers have rallied in Beirut outside their respective consulates, and many have been left without pay or passports as employers left them unable to return home as they stopped paying or accommodating them.
English | August 26, 2020
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