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New visa rules for domestic workers 'wil…
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Cameron plans to drop visa that saved hi…
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Melanie McFadyean: Dark Places and Dirty…
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CARJ joins call for Government to retain…
The Catholic Association for Racial Justice (CARJ) has called on the government not to remove t…
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Hundreds of migrant domestic workers have demonstrated outside Parliament against proposed chan…
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London HIV scientist jailed for keeping…
A scientist found guilty of keeping a woman as a slave at her London home has been jailed for s…
HIV expert kept woman as a slave in Tham…
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Scientist 'smuggled woman from Africa to…
A scientist at one of the world’s leading medical research institutions smuggled a young…
HIV expert 'beat Tanzanian house slave w…
Young woman ‘was stripped of her passport and banned from contacting family
US state department concerned by lack of…
International diplomats don cloak of immunity to mask trafficking of domestic servants from the…
A wound that shames our present
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Behind closed doors: the plight of the U…
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Servant paid £2.50 an hour wins tribuna…
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Domestic 'slave' girls sue Met for faili…
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