Uganda Christian News | 11 September 2018

Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development Permanent Secretary, Mr Pius Bigirimana has told journalists that government is investigating reports that Ugandan women seeking employment as domestic workers in Oman, are being trafficked and sold as slaves.

Human Rights Watch explained in a 68-page report released 2016 that because of Oman’s immigrant labor laws, tying employment to a specific family’s sponsorship, many foreign employees – particularly female domestic workers – face exploitation and abuse at the hands of their Omani employers and have little means of recourse to protect themselves.

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