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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Katie McQue

Oman ‘failing to stop trafficking and abuse of migrant domestic workers’

Do Bold interviewed workers from Sierra Leone working in Oman.
Do Bold interviewed workers from Sierra Leone working in Oman. Photograph: Do Bold

Oman is failing to protect migrant domestic workers who are victims of human trafficking, trapped in abusive households and subjected to physical and sexual violence with no access to justice or a safe route home, a report has found.

Do Bold, an organisation that works to assist and repatriate migrant workers trapped in the Gulf, interviewed 469 domestic workers from Sierra Leone working in Oman, for the report. It concluded that all but one of the women interviewed were victims of forced labour and human trafficking.

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