Urmila Bhoola

Birth : , South Africa

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Urmila Bhoola is a South African international human rights lawyer working for the U.N. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, currently (2019) in Kuwait.

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Maids for Sale

U.N.

BBC News Arabic's undercover investigation exposes the people in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale. 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?