Could a court case in Lebanon shift attitudes toward migrant domestic workers? 

The World

In a rare case, an Ethiopian domestic worker in Lebanon is taking her former employer and the agency that hired her to court over accusations of slavery and slave trading. The woman, identified only as MH, alleges that she was underpaid, locked up and assaulted over several years. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

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