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Diplomats and officials of international organizations traffick, abuse, and exploit their migrant domestic workers, shielded by diplomatic immunity and their sending countries
Data show that diplomatic immunity has protected many abusive diplomats from prosecution. The complicity of their sending countries has also helped them get away with impunity.
Four Filipina domestic workers sue their diplomat employers in the EU’s latest case of exploitation in diplomatic households which has gone on for decades.