Lebanon: migrant domestic workers subjected to exploitation and abuse – new report

Lebanon’s new government must end the kafala system which is trapping migrant domestic workers in a nightmarish web of abuse ranging from exploitative working conditions to forced labour and human trafficking, said Amnesty International today, launching a new report and campaign.

The 37-page report - ‘Their house is my prison’: Exploitation of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, based on interviews with 32 domestic workers, as well as employers and recruitment agencies - shows that many of Lebanon’s 250,000 migrant domestic workers (mostly women) face serious human rights abuses at the hands of their employers.

English | April 24, 2019

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