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Madagascan maids in slavery nightmare

Jan-Philipp Schlüter, presented by Emma WallisJanuary 28, 2015

Some 80 percent of Madagascar's population live below the poverty line, which means they survive on less than one euro a day. To escape from this hardship, thousands of women have gone overseas to work as maids and send money back home to their families. But all too often their dream of financial security becomes a nightmare of slavery.

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