Foreign diplomats and employees of international organizations are getting away with exploiting their domestic workers because of their diplomatic immunity status. Under the Vienna Convention, diplomatic immunity protects diplomats and employees of international organizations from being sued, arrested, or detained while in their receiving country.
In addition to field reporting across Europe and the Philippines, the report series will use digital forensics and open-source intelligence techniques to gather open-source data and expose the extent of exploitation of household domestic staff.
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The project Diplomatic Immunity & Impunity is a regional/local finalist in the Carlos Tejada Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting category as part of the SOPA Awards 2024. The awards ceremony will take place on 20 June 2024. The series exposes how erring diplomats have been able to exploit their migrant domestic workers and have gotten away with it for decades due to a privilege called diplomatic immunity.
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