“This is the quintessential example of modern slavery.”
Potential buyers in Kuwait can shop for domestic workers on various apps hosted by U.S. companies.
The report focuses primarily on Kuwait, where 90 percent of homes “employ” a domestic servant. In reality, however, domestic workers are being bought and sold like chattel on apps and Instagram in what Urmila Bhoola, the UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, called “an online slave market.” Sellers typically tell potential buyers to take away the women’s passports, lock them in the house, and not give them even a minute off.
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