"Estimated at some 200,000 people - about five percent of Lebanon’s population - rights groups warn that migrant domestic workers, most of them women from the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia, remain unprotected by labour laws and subject to a range of abuses by their employers. “Domestic workers represent a large segment of labourers who are not being recognised as such. Over a third of the domestic worker population is denied time off,” said Nadim Houry, Beirut researcher for Human Rights Watch (HRW), which this month re-launched “Put yourself in her shoes” - a campaign to highlight abuses against domestic workers." (thanks Molly)