How did the numbers of migrant domestic workers coming to or staying regularly in Lebanon change over the past 5 years under the effects of the economic collapse and the Covid-19 pandemics? A comparative view in numbers.

The soap-making classes are one of the many initiatives launched by “Egna Legna”.
While bonding in a safe-space, the project aims at empowering women with useful skills that will enable them to be self-supporting on return home.

What exactly is the Kafala System? Why don’t migrant domestic workers benefit from the Lebanese Law of Labor? How can this system come to an end or be reformed? The answers of a Lebanese lawyer and human rights activist.

Mariam jumped through the window of her employer’s house, saving herself from sexual harassment. Navigating the hardships of undocumented work, she started building an initiative to break the cycle of an unjust system.

Tsigereda and Dagafetch came from Ethiopia to deceived promises of work in Lebanon. Thrown into a place where nothing seemed to protect them from abuse, they became part of an initiative launched by migrant domestic workers and for them.

You were promised a good work in Lebanon. You decide to embark on the journey, hoping to help your family back home and save some money. What would you do when you arrive and face a reality full of deceits?

When Imad, a kid from the refugee camp, grows up, the laws will deprive him from many jobs, no matter how many degrees he might get..

Mahmoud is a Palestinian who left Syria in 2013 and went to Lebanon to study computer sciences. The situation of the Palestinian refugees camp forced him to work in a phone store…

Two semesters before completing his university degree, Saber discovered he had cancer. He passed away before realizing his dream.

Laila is young woman from Tripoli who could not enter to a hospital for a procedure for lack of identification. She had to borrow her cousin’s ID and impersonate her to have access to hospitalization, which put her life in grave danger.

Abdallah is a young man from Bab al-Tabbeneh in Tripoli. His parents never registered their marriage, so he grew up stateless. After numerous failed attempts to obtain the Lebanese nationality, he found no one to resort to, so he took to the sea.

Qamar (pseudonym) is girl in her early 20s. After being offered help on her statelessness case by a prominent lawyer, Qamar met with him in his office. Rather than a helping hand, she found a rapist who took advantage of her vulnerability.