In Lebanon, over 200,000 foreign domestic workers are contracted under a system of full custodianship, depriving them of basic rights. This system, borrowed from Gulf countries, treats workers as commodities, with agencies importing them under conditions similar to modern-day slavery.
Makhdoumin
In Lebanon, a significant population of foreign domestic workers, approximately 200,000, are trapped in a system of full custodianship, a practice that has been in place since the 1975 civil war, effectively denying them fundamental rights.
