Filipina workers trafficked from UAE to Syria, abused and assaulted
Filipinos in Dubai, UK on 12 April 2010 [KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images] January 25, 2021 at 2:36 pm
Filipina workers and maids have been trafficked from the United Arab Emirates to Syria where they have been subjected to assault, rape, abuse and the withholding of their wages, a
Washington Postreport has revealed.
The accounts and testimonies of 17 women from the Philippines, interviewed by the newspaper over Facebook Messenger, reveal that dozens of workers from the south-east Asian country were forced into being transferred to Syria after arriving in the UAE where they initially intended to work.
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