The Washington Post: Instagram fuels rise in black-market sales of maids into Persian Gulf servitude

katiemcque84

May 5, 2021

DUBAI — The advent of Instagram in recent years has helped create an international black market for migrant workers, in particular women recruited in Africa and Asia who are sold into servitude as maids in Persian Gulf countries.

Read story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/gulf-uae-migrant-workers-instagram/2021/05/04/3a767564-a44d-11eb-b314-2e993bd83e31_story.html

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