Silicon Valley's Online Slave Market - Full documentary - BBC News Arabic | BBC Africa Eye
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Published 2019-11-03
At the centre of this powerful investigative film is Fatou, a 16 year old in Kuwait City who has been there for nine months. We follow her rescue and journey back home to Guinea, West Africa and ask: what’s being done to control the apps promoted on Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram?
Click here to watch this film in Arabic:
:يمكن مشاهدة هذا الفيلم الوثائقي باللغة العربية هنا
• خادمات للبيع : سوق وادي السليكون للعب...
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All Comments (21)
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I don't care how "old-fashioned" someone is, if a person thinks it's okay to "own" a person they are EVIL.
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Bravo to the Asian Lady who had been to Prison for nothing and she's out fighting for the safety of others.
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Hats off to the cop who went out of his way to locate her family even if he didn't succeed. He cared enough to try.
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Thank you to everyone involved with exposing these crimes in Kuwait and for your work to help these people.
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'How can you have a servant who keeps their own passport? The worst thing is that she gets a day off every week!' Like WTF on earth did I hear?
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arab women out there crying for their rights yet they themselves look at domestic workers as animaks, so sad
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This employer law that an employee can't leave without employer consent is absolutely unacceptable on all accounts. How can this be allowed??? I'm concerned about what happens to these women in prison too. That's a whole other investigation.
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very thankful that BBC not only researches and makes these documentaries, but also takes a step further to reach out to governments, companies, families... It might not stop it all but even the smallest change saves lives. God bless you for this.
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"Sara, that's what we call her. I don't even know her real name." A lie, because he holds her passport. Just another way of demeaning her. So evil
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Let's quit candy coating this: It's slavery.
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This is a great example that where there is evil there is also goodness. Much respect to those trying to help these girls and solve this problem.
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As disgusting as the government is for not cracking down on those cases, even to the point that when video evidence is presented sellers aren’t prosecuted, i think the worst culprits are Silicon Valley themselves. they can spend billions to perfect advertising algorithms yet slave trade can happen freely on platforms like instagram and google. Absolutely detestable
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Isn’t it insane that these are countries where the smallest amount of weed will get you years in prison but child trafficking is ‘a-okay!’
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So after trafficking humans, the only penalty they get is a banned account? What a world we live in!
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This just makes me cry, these girls should be living the best years of their lives. Anyone involved in this should be put to work in the same way to learn compassion for their fellow man.
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We need more of this kind of reporting...journalism is used to expose evil. It was sickening to watch the inhumane treatment by those Kuwaiti employers
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The Activist needs to be careful. May God protect her so she can continue her much needed work. Nobel prize nomination is needed
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Ironic how a Cop is helping to find a trafficked person in one country and a cop owns a trafficked person on the other.
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Everyone who took part in saving that girl are heroes in my eyes. It’s heartwarming, that people are generally appalled by such disgraceful treatment of our fellow human beings, but also extremely sad that it continues to happen. I think it’s true that people selling really don’t imagine themselves evil, it’s born from pure ignorance. Just as trafficking and the business of foreign domestic workers is a product of poverty and desperation.
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Just unbelievable thank you everyone needs to see this!!!!
