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 ...

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 ...