According to Lebanon's National News Agency - Opens in new tab, an Ethiopian worker, Janet M. K., hung herself today using a laundry rope from the ceiling of the house of her employer in Bazourieh in Tyr, South Lebanon.
This suicides comes one day after CNN produced a damning report - Opens in new tab on abuse of domestic workers in Lebanon. In this report, Nadim Houry from human rights watch quotes the Ethiopian ambassador who had told him: "I'm no longer running an embassy here. I'm running a morgue".