Tales of Modern Slavery

VoDW - https://www.thevoiceofdomesticworkers.com/


US case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvrPH29O8wk

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1169180.html

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/wisconsin-couple-who-kept-modern-day-slave-19-years-deported-philippines

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/November/06_crt_772.html

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2012/07/01/823197/pinoy-couple-white-slavery-deported

https://www.philippinedailymirror.com/ice-deports-filipino-couple-involved-human-trafficking/


Australian case

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/joshua-shiela-mcaleer-sydney-couple-plead-guilty-to-forced-labour-charges/news-story/d97ae1bc12f82b3a0b7840fe46725327

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/carer-forced-to-work-in-supermarket-stopped-from-going-out-by-sydney-couple-20210421-p57l89.html

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/you-cant-go-womans-hellish-life-as-slave-for-sydney-couple/news-story/ae62655c35fc942b69eb8cec5ff793bf

https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-couple-offer-70000-to-filipino-woman-they-enslaved-at-rockdale-home/d27f4e8a-8cae-41c3-976f-b83300dbbbd3

https://www.ibtimes.com/couple-enslaved-illegal-migrant-3-years-made-her-work-24-hours-day-3186492

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/carer-forced-to-work-in-supermarket-stopped-from-going-out-by-sydney-couple-20210421-p57l89.html

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/sydney-couple-sentenced-forced-labour

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-couple-who-kept-woman-like-slave-will-repay-70-000-and-face-jail-time-20210625-p5846q.html

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/filipino/en/podcast-episode/sentencing-for-sydney-couple-who-admitted-to-slavery-like-offences/e0a0eca89

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/filipino/en/podcast-episode/sentencing-for-sydney-couple-who-admitted-to-slavery-like-offences/e0a0eca89

https://filipinotimes.net/latest-news/2021/06/28/sydney-couple-jailed-for-slavery-offence-against-overseas-filipina-worker/

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-offence-slavery-in-australia/



Swiss case

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/young-women-kept-as-house-slaves-and-put-in-cages-2360687.html 

https://news.faharas.net/76676/andelfingen-putzfrauen-als-sklavinnen-gehalten/ 

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/young-women-kept-as-house-slaves-and-put-in-cages-2360687.html 

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/zurich-couple-allegedly-kept-women-in-a-small-cage-2369236.html 

https://ground.news/article/lawyer-calls-for-acquittal-in-andelfingen-cage-trial

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging/swiss-couple-sentenced-for-enslaving-two-housekeepers/87628403

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/defendant-in-andelfingen-cage-trial-asks-for-forgiveness-2371429.html

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/court-sentences-the-slave-owner-from-andelfingen-2383050.html

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