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‘We lie on the floor till someone buys us’: shocking allegations of UAE agencies’ abuse of domestic workers (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

I remember reading a statistic that there are probably more slaves alive today than there ever existed in history.

https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200