Solidarity Center Report: Former Child Domestic Worker Describes Years of Forced Labor

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Solidarity Center Report: Former Child Domestic Worker Describes Years of Forced Labor(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

At age 9, Evelyn Chumbow was trafficked overseas from Cameroon to become a domestic worker for a family in Maryland. She worked from 6 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week, was forced to sleep on the floor without a room of her own and regularly beaten. Each day, she took her employer’s children to school, but was not allowed to attend. At 17 she escaped, but had no identification and didn’t know her birthday or age. Although child labor has decreased globally in recent years, child labor in domestic work has increased by 9 percent in the past four years. Nearly half of child domestic workers are under age 14, and nearly all are girls. Read more at the Solidarity Center.

 

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