BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Ethiopian housemaid lies bandaged in a government hospital after falling from a 12th floor balcony. She says her Lebanese employer pushed her off. "Madam asked me to hang the ...

After she flew to Lebanon in 2017 to work as a maid for a family of eight, Birtukan Mekuanint managed to call her own relatives in Ethiopia only a handful of times. So her father, Abiye Yefru, did not ...

BEIRUT, Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Exhausted by economic collapse, COVID-19 and an explosion that devastated parts of the capital, Lebanon's woes are taking a heavy toll on the nation's ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Before she escaped, Chandra worked 16 hours a day, seven days a week — cooking, cleaning and running a household for a Lebanese family. The only time the Sri Lankan maid could leave ...

Ethiopian domestic workers who were dismissed by their employers gather with their belongings outside their country’s embassy in Hazmiyeh, east of Beirut, yesterday. [AFP] After she flew to Lebanon in ...

After preparing dozens of rice packages for out-of-work domestic staff, 30-year-old Tirsit breaks down in tears recounting life as a foreign housekeeper in crisis-hit Lebanon. Live-in domestic staff ...

Tens of thousands of migrants toil under the "kafala" system, which rights groups liken to enslavement. Abang Sharon arrived in Lebanon on April 24 last year, having traveled there from Cameroon. The ...

Fifty trafficked Nigerian women have been rescued from Lebanon and returned home, Nigeria's foreign minister says. They have all been placed in quarantine following their arrival on Sunday as a ...