{"id":59112,"date":"2023-10-10T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/10\/amazon-trafficking-links-claims-saudi-arabia-workers-abuses"},"modified":"2023-10-10T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:00:36","slug":"revealed-amazon-linked-to-trafficking-of-workers-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59112","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/oct\/10\/mcdonalds-trafficking-links-claims-chuck-e-cheese-saudi-arabia\">McDonald\u2019s and Chuck E Cheese tied to alleged foreign worker exploitation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/oct\/10\/corporate-auditing-foreign-workers-abuse-claims\">Corporations are paying for worker abuse audits that are \u2018designed to fail\u2019, say insiders<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Momtaj Mansur wanted to go home to his mom and his brother and the pastures of Nepal\u2019s southern plains. He felt like a prisoner, he says, in a roach-infested bunkhouse in Saudi Arabia, out of work, hungry and deep in debt.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old had come to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in 2021 to work for one of the world\u2019s biggest companies: Amazon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/10\/amazon-trafficking-links-claims-saudi-arabia-workers-abuses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditionsMcDonald\u2019s and Chuck E Cheese tied to alleged foreign worker exploitationCorporations are paying for worker abuse audits that a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,6,1026,725,86,212,241,398,61,47,2428,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-business","category-e-commerce","category-human-trafficking","category-law","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-nepal","category-saudi-arabia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-workers-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59113,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59112\/revisions\/59113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}