Wednesday, 1 August 2018

The secret networks saving Lebanon's migrant maids from abuse | Richard Hall

The country’s domestic workers often endure beatings or sexual violence by their employers – which they cannot report for fear of deportation – but help is at hand

When Angela ran away from her employer – a man who had raped her and kept her imprisoned in his home – she had nowhere to go.

She didn’t dare contact the police, because she knew that escaped migrant domestic workers in Beirut were often returned to their abusers. She had no money and no passport.

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