Former diplomat Prabhu Dayal discusses diplomat/maid issue

[Rakhal DAVE]

http://in.news.yahoo.com/how-indian-envoys-to-the-us-can-fall-victim-to-maids-054010858.html?.tsrc=yahoo

In above article:
Former diplomat Prabhu Dayal discusses how Indian envoys to the US end up
being victimised as domestic helps pursue their American dreams.
(she too was victimised).

Excerpt:

"However, in October 2000, the US Congress enacted the Victims of
Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (TVPA). In terms of this Act, our
domestic assistants who now abscond can obtain a trafficking visa by
alleging that they were subjected to involuntary servitude and not paid
wages as per US laws. They can get a three year T Visa which gets
converted to full resident status.

Naturally, such persons allege that they would face extreme hardship if
they were deported back, as Sangeeta Richard has done. In return, they
have to cooperate with the law enforcement agencies against the alleged
traffickers — their former employers.

Then in 2010, New York state enacted the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights,
after which there has been a spate of lawsuits filed by domestic workers."

Read the full article:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/how-indian-envoys-to-the-us-can-fall-victim-to-maids-054010858.html?.tsrc=yahoo

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