Tech giants including Instagram and Google ‘are hosting online slave markets where domestic workers are being bought and sold for less than £3,000 through apps’

Children as young as 16 are being trafficked into Kuwait and sold as maids
The maids are traded on online marketplaces by unscrupulous dealers
Ordinary couples also trade their domestic staff online sometimes for a profit
Purchasers are advised to keep the maid’s passport and confiscate her phone

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www.corneliaweber-photography.com says:

November 3, 2019 at 10:04 am

Just horrible, where the social media ends to disasters.

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1. Rekha Sahay says:
  
  November 3, 2019 at 8:21 pm
  
  Yes Cornelia. Sadly, the best of the things are also sometimes greatly misused by human beings.
  
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Rekha Sahay says:

November 3, 2019 at 8:34 pm

I think human trafficking continues till date in some form or the other. Strict punishment and implementation of proper rules are required.

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