In Lebanon, the pandemic struck at a time of social change and economic crisis, whereby the culture shifted towards overthrowing corrupt political leaders but forgot to take into account migrant workers victims of several human rights violations.
Lebanon women forming a line between riot police and other protesters in Riad el Solh, Beirut, during the 2019 Revolution. (Wikimedia Commons)
“The agency told me that they would provide me a job with good conditions,” she said.
This is what Rani, a domestic worker, said when she left her home country, Sri Lanka, over 20 years ago, in hopes of finding a better life in Lebanon with the support of her employers. She had no idea that she would walk into a nightmare.