Video: A long line of young Ethiopian women arrive in Beirut in just one day

Poverty at home drives thousands of Ethiopian women to flock to Middle Eastern countries to work at domestic workers, where they are treated as slaves.

"We are not humans in Lebanon. We are treated like animals or maybe a machine or a robot that they can charge to work," Miryam Kessaya of Ethiopia tells Al Jazeera. "I'm not treated as a human. I'm not treated like a woman," said Miryam, who is struggling to form a union of domestic workers along with other activities from India, Philipines etc.