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Maids for Sale: Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market – BBC News

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Maids for Sale: Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market – BBC News

Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by providing and approving apps used for the buying and selling of domestic workers in the Gulf.

BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes app users in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale. The discovery of Fatou in Kuwait City, her rescue and journey back home to Guinea, West Africa, is at the heart of this powerful and shocking investigation into Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market.

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  1. nature has created nothing worse than the Arab community, dont tell me that there are bad and good everywhere , if you see the same thing in all arabe countries so the problem is their mentality

  2. It was british who used human zoo, now americans doing it. And you accuse the poor people with bad human right. You guys are dogs your tails will never be straght even if it is put in a pipe for long time.

  3. deported back to guniue. girl must be crying her eyes out. they do pay 3 to 4 k to go there for work and you send her back without any money. she is getting scolded by her family everyday for being a failure. i know cause i am from one of those third world countries. oh sorry didn't see the part that she got an adopted family where she is comfortable. if only you guys can do that for everyone no one would migrate to first world country for work in the first place.

  4. haha she is really sly. hahaha that 2 stupid people in bbc. they know nothing but they blabber everything like they know it all. stupid people please die you guys are pest to the world.

  5. This is the reason why I hate all the Middle Eastern countries this has been going on for decades everyone knew about this all the world knew but no one gives a fuck and this is still happening

  6. What this video does not discuss: The vast majority of guest workers in the Middle East chose to be there and choose to stay. Destroying the system would hurt those you intend to protect. It’s an extremely complicated situation and the BBC does not capture that.

  7. This is unfortunately common in Arabic countries. I'm from Iraq and While working in a factory the owner hired Bangladesh and Pakistani workers, took their passports and would make them work 10 to sometimes 14 hours a day. I used to work 8 to 10 hours a day. me and several others where fired and replaced with a pakistani workers because the owner can over work them without facing problem.

  8. The apps are clearly not the main story, yet they bookend this piece, as if the slave traders couldnt just move to different platforms. This was going on before the advent of the internet and will continue even without it.

  9. Go do slave traffiking in sharjah or ajwa uae
    U get life jail
    Thats why im moving to sharjah not dubai
    No thanks
    More islamic laws
    No slavery no nudity no beach bikini
    All peacefull and green everywhere
    And downtown amazing

  10. I'm so hurt 😞 💔 😢 by this why treat an innocent fellow human beings like that 😔, someone who works for you and does all your domestic work 💔 😢. For this reason African should be careful choosing to go to Arab countries for green pastures because all I see his torture 💔 😢. I have watched one of the most recent videos where an innocent East African girl is being forced to breastfeed puppies 🐶 😭😭 like seriously what kind of human being will do such a thing to a fellow human. Why not just deport her back to Africa if she did something wrong which I know she didn't do anything wrong just because she is dark in complexion/African why do Most Arab people do that yet I have seen black Arabs too. What do their Quaran teach?I'm so hurt 😢 😭😭😭 I hope the girl will get rescued from that situation she is in now and many others who have not got any chance to talk about their mistreatment in the Arab country and other part of the world

  11. Obviously we are not selling human slaves in the Gulf that is so embarassing for BBC to post we treat our maids with full respect they have access to wifi, free accomodation, free food, free clothes and sometimes even gifts plus they have long breaks and a salary of 450$ each month as a domestic helper thats more than a BBC employee get offered lol😂😂😂

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