Silicon Valley's Online Slave Market - Full documentary - BBC News Arabic | BBC Africa Eye

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?

Click here to watch this film in Arabic:
:يمكن مشاهدة هذا الفيلم الوثائقي باللغة العربية هنا

[orihellcon]

The Activist needs to be careful. May God protect her so she can continue her much needed work. Nobel prize nomination is needed

[oscartvonline]

'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?

[feeltoofree]

So after trafficking humans, the only penalty they get is a banned account? What a world we live in!

[flej]

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.

[purplespaceship]

God bless that policeman who took time off work to try to find this girl's family and traveled for hours determined to make a break in the case.

[miapdx]

"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

[aishajohnson]

Bravo to the Asian Lady who had been to Prison for nothing and she's out fighting for the safety of others.

[Anno-wk]

Very good investigative journalism here! Well done to the journalists and BBC for airing this!!

[eurykah]

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!’

[samg]

Absolute respect to the dedication of the Guinean policeman in his search for 'Fatu's' family.

[Alexa-uklj]

I don't care how "old-fashioned" someone is, if a person thinks it's okay to "own" a person they are EVIL.

[Eddie-kjzb]

The shortest 51 min documentary I've ever watched. I am happy the lady finally left Kuwait and found peace and freedom

[ImprovisedExpletiveDevice]

The lack of empathy for these "domestic workers" is unbelievable.

[patriciaalley]

This is what legitimate journalism can do. I have to give a lot of credit to the BBC. These stories are hard-earned and dangerous to produce. How wonderful to see that young girl free at the end.

[gslvqz]

Google and Apple should be ashamed for hosting apps like this. As the the lady said, if they are allowing this apps to be online, they are in one way or another promoting this illegal activity.

[alunlloyd]

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

[needmoreramsay]

Ironic how a Cop is helping to find a trafficked person in one country and a cop owns a trafficked person on the other.

[Betonmeamberlee]

Omg that first maid was like should I get my bag? She wanted to leave! That’s so sad!

[biolemmashem]

It broke my heart when the first lady asked if she should get her bag to leave :'(

[comnet]

This just breaks my heart watching this. Watching from Ontario, Canada.