However, according to Human Rights Watch, Lebanese authorities fail to meet their legal obligations towards protecting women from violence and endomg discrimination against them. Trans women, female sex workers, refugees, and asylum seekers have endured systemic violence, including rape, in Lebanese detention centers. Female migrant workers, under the "Kafala" system, and with no labor laws to protect them, have faced employer abuse and negligence especially after the spread COVID-19, the economic crisis starting in August 2019, and the August 2020 Beirut port explosion.