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Exported and Exposed: Abuses Against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates

Document number
1503
Date
2007
Title
Exported and Exposed: Abuses Against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates
Author/publisher
Human Rights Watch
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Summary
This report is based on interviews with migrant Sri Lankan domestic workers who had returned to Sri Lanka after working in the Middle East. The 131-page paper documents the serious abuses that domestic workers face at every step of the migration process. It also shows how the Sri Lankan government and governments in the Middle East fail to protect these women
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