Underreported: The Exploitation of International Domestic Workers

Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show

Nov 17, 201100:13:17Government & Organizations

On this week’s Underreported, Human Rights Watch researcher Nisha Varia describes abuses of migrant domestic workers in Asia and the Middle East, and why Cambodian women are particularly vulnerable to mistreatment in Mal...

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