Domestic worker caught in human trafficking net

The reality of human trafficking – in another country and at the hands of one’s fellow countrymen or women – has been highlighted by a new judgment from the employment courts in the UK. The case concerned two Malawian women, one who employed the other as a domestic worker in the UK. But when the domestic worker was abruptly thrown out of the employer’s house, the authorities found she had been ‘employed’ under appalling conditions, without most of the basic protections to which she should have been entitled. In her A Matter of Justice column on the Legalbrief site, legal writer Carmel Rickard points out that the decision follows just a month after a conference in Malawi in which top officials addressed the growing problem of human trafficking in Malawi and other African countries.

A Matter of Justice

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