Lebanon: the ordeal of African domestic workers
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Dozens of Ethiopian servants gather outside the Ethiopian consulate in Hazmieh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, June 4, 2020. AP Photo / Hassan Ammar
By: Noé Pignède Follow
21 min
Grand report takes us to Lebanon, to meet the kafalas, these women from Asia and Africa, domestic workers.
Since the 1970s, Lebanon has brought in hundreds of thousands of them, today they would be nearly 300,000, for 5 million inhabitants, an institutionalized system, the Kafala.
They work for Lebanese families, often 7 days a week, fifteen hours a day, for a few hundred dollars a month, and often mistreated.
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