Lebanon: Domestic worker sues employer in first lawsuit against kafala exploitation (Dario Sabaghi, Middle East Eye)

When MH*, 38, travelled to Lebanon from Ethiopia in 2012 to work as a domestic worker, she did not foresee that she would be forced to live in captivity for almost eight years.

Like other foreign domestic workers in Lebanon, MH found herself deprived of basic rights and locked in a spiral of violence that put her life in danger.

She is one of the many foreign domestic workers who entered the kafala system, a migrant employment sponsorship system used in Lebanon and in other Middle Eastern countries that legally ties migrants to their employers.

Lebanon: Domestic worker sues employer in first lawsuit against kafala exploitation | Middle East Eye

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