HONG KONG —A Philippine domestic worker who was sexually abused by her Hong Kong employer will take the city’s police to court over their decision not to classify her as a victim of human trafficking, her lawyers said Friday.
Activists have long argued that the city’s 370,000 domestic workers — mostly poor women from the Philippines and Indonesia — are acutely vulnerable to various forms of exploitation, including sexual abuse, and have backed calls for a suite of dedicated anti-trafficking laws.
Authorities have rejected those demands, but now face a legal challenge after a rare successful conviction of an employer sexually abusing a domestic helper.
The woman…
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