NBC News, The Guardian, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism
‘Kill Us or Send Us Home’: Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia say they were exploited by labor supply and recruiting firms
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Through interviews with dozens of current and former Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia, this international consortium of journalists exposed illegal recruiting fees, squalid living conditions, and potential labor trafficking by Nepalese agencies with contracts to supply Amazon with employees in the Gulf region. NBC, The Guardian, and their partners carefully balanced the confidentiality of vulnerable workers against the journalism imperative to confirm sources’ accounts with documents, photographs, and, at a relatively early stage of their reporting, Amazon itself. Amazon eventually agreed to pay nearly $2 million in reparations to about 700 workers.
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For reporting on the exploitation of hundreds of Amazon workers in a manner that maintained the confidentiality of sources while also affording the company a robust opportunity to respond
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