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Bought and sold like used cars

BBC Arabic investigates domestic maids being traded on commodity apps in Kuwait.

BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation, Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market, exposes the mainstream app users in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery by trading domestic staff, including a 16-year-old girl from Guinea in West Africa.
Picture: Domestic workers for sale on an online app. Credit: BBC

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