BEIRUT, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Chanting their national anthem in the departure hall of Beirut airport, a group of migrant workers prepared to return home and close a chapter on their time in Lebanon which ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - As Lebanon grapples with surging coronavirus infections and a financial crisis that has crushed its economy, migrant workers often cannot find the care they need if they test ...

The uncomfortable looks came first. As Jane Tiozen, a domestic worker from the Philippines, dipped her feet in the swimming pool of an upscale beach club in Lebanon, she could feel the disapproving ...

African low skilled workers in Lebanon have been exposed to multiple hardships over the past months. This is due to a multiplicity of factors which includes the economic and political instability in ...

ANOTHER LIFE: Sajita Lama with her mother in 2022 (left), after returning from Lebanon where her employers did not pay her for 12 years of domestic work, and Lama with her mother today (right). This ...

It was 7 p.m. in the Achrafieh neighborhood of Beirut, fifty-four days into the airstrikes, and Daniel Corrou, SJ, was at his desk. Outside, attack drones buzzed overhead. Down the hall, families who ...

Saudi Arabia has come under scrutiny time and again for its treatment of foreign workers under the kafala system. This ...

An actor performs in 'When I Saw the Sea', a play by Lebanese director Ali Chahrour, at a theatre in Beirut — Joseph EID As Lebanon suffered a war last year, Ali Chahrour was determined to keep making ...

Saudi Arabia has abolished its decades-old Kafala system, granting migrant workers the freedom to change jobs, travel without ...

A historic reform in Saudi Arabia. After nearly seven decades, the Kafala system — long condemned as a tool of modern-day ...

The African Union Commission convened the meeting to discuss with three affected Member States, namely, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) IOM and the ...