A domestic servitude case from 2023 in Beirut, Lebanon. 1 source on file.
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Kenyan domestic worker fell from balcony escaping abusive employer. Part of pattern of kafala system abuses resulting in deaths. Accused: Lebanese household employer under kafala sponsorship.
Kenyan embassy emergency response. Employer questioned; kafala reform advocacy intensified. Anti-Racism Movement Lebanon assistance.
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Ethiopian domestic workers under kafala system trapped following Beirut explosion and economic collapse. Abandoned by sponsors, left destitute. Accused: Lebanese household employers under kafala system.
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A 23-year-old Ghanaian domestic worker was found dead in a car park beneath her employers' fourth-floor home in Beirut's southern suburbs in March 2020, hours after messaging an activist group for help with the abuse she said she was suffering. Her death is part of a pattern of abuse of migrant domestic workers under Lebanon's kafala system.