Foreign workers

A migrant domestic worker holds a placard during a march demanding basic labor rights as Lebanese workers in Beirut, May 3, 2015. More than 200,000 workers mostly women from Asia and Africa work as maids in a country of 4 million people, many also come fr

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

Justice

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 as M.H., alleges that she was underpaid, locked up and assaulted over several years. Activists are hoping it will help change the worker sponsorship program in Lebanon.

Four Ethiopian women wearing blue face masks sit outside with a young child.

As Lebanon’s financial crisis worsens, migrant workers are being dumped on the streets like ‘trash’

The World

Global hit

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

The World – Episode 20071107 – Germany’s female brain drain