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Domestic Violence, Migrant Workers and the Covid Crisis in Lebanon

In the latest domestic violence incident against undocumented migrants and women in Lebanon, the body of a Bangladeshi woman was discovered outside a Beirut bank in April. The Covid crisis has seen spiking rates of violence in Lebanon and, in a country still reeling from the Port Lebanon explosion and facing financial meltdown, is likely to continue, writes Ollie Marsden.

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Foreign Embassies Have Failed Their Citizens in Lebanon. LevantX Investigates.

“I am scared. I am scared a lot.”
Ester Wamgui sits on a dirt-stained mattress lying on the street outside the Kenyan Consulate of Beirut. She cradles her son Jame in her arms while she seeks shelter from the August sun in the shade of a nearby building. Her daughter Judy sits next to her drawing on a scrap of paper with a yellow highlighter.

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