Women from Sierra Leone 'sold like slaves' into domestic work in Kuwait

Women from Sierra Leone ‘sold like slaves’ into domestic work in Kuwait

April 25, 2015

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Kuwait has the highest ratio of domestic workers to citizens in the Middle East. And no legal protection to all of them.
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In the basement of an old tower block near Kuwait City, recruitment agents brandish files full of healthy, work-ready domestic workers. “Choose the one you want,” says one agent with a smile. “I will give you a hundred days’ guarantee. If you don’t like her you can send her back.”

The Guardian
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Conditions,Kuwait,Slavery,Trafficking
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