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Al Jazeera reports (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/11/lebanons-economiccrisis-and-its-domestic-workers) that Lebanon’s current financial crisis heightens the
insecurity of domestic workers, particularly migrant domestic workers, as they are
being paid a fraction of their time’s worth – if at all.
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