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Category: Investigation highlights
The Guardian: ‘We lie on the floor till someone buys us’: shocking allegations of UAE agencies’ abuse of domestic workers
Women interviewed by the Guardian report agencies denying them food and passports, holding them captive, and ‘selling’ them on social … More
The Guardian: How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy … More
The Washington Post / ICIJ: Abuses on U.S. bases in Persian Gulf ensnare legions of migrant workers
Defense contractors hire thousands of foreigners. Many are trapped by employment practices banned by the U.S. government. By Katie McQue October … More
The Washington Post: Hundreds of Filipino workers stranded on island amid dispute with U.S. contractor
Their employer, KBR, denies Philippine charges that it’s keeping them from leaving the remote American military base on Diego Garcia … More
The Washington Post: Denied birth certificates, thousands of children in the UAE go without schooling and health care
Hospitals withhold birth records because of unpaid debts, and the government refuses to register those born out of wedlock By Katie … More
The Washington Post: Smuggled Iranian fuel and secret nighttime transfers: Seafarers recount how it’s done
By Katie McQue January 3, 2022 at 4:01 p.m. EST DUBAI — The secret transfers usually take place at night to … More
The Washington Post: Instagram fuels rise in black-market sales of maids into Persian Gulf servitude
May 5, 2021 DUBAI — The advent of Instagram in recent years has helped create an international black market for … More
The Washington Post: Foreign seafarers say they were tricked into servitude on Iranian ships
By Katie McQueJanuary 14, 2022 at 3:00 a.m. EST DUBAI — Iranian shipping companies in league with international recruiting firms have … More
The Washington Post: Sold into Syrian servitude, Filipina workers tell of abuse, rape and imprisonment
By Katie McQue Jan. 25, 2021 at 12:43 a.m. GMT+4 DUBAI — Josephine Tawaging was being bundled off to the airport … More
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