Peru: Housekeeper in New Jersey Accuses Peruvian Diplomat of Human Trafficking June 26, 2013 in Human Trafficking, North America · 0 Comment A Peruvian woman has accused a top official at Peru’s mission to the United Nations of entrapping her in a life of involuntary servitude in the New Jersey suburbs, forcing her to work as many as 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for little or no compensation. The woman, María Ríos Fun, said that the official, Marita Puertas Pulgar, first secretary of the Peruvian mission, and her partner, Alexis Aquino Albegrin, had promised her fair wages and a humane work schedule when they recruited her in Lima, Peru, last year to work in their house in Wayne, N.J., while Ms. Puertas was stationed at the United Nations. But on her arrival, Ms. Ríos said, the couple subjected her to a gruelling work schedule with one day off every six weeks and a campaign of intimidation and coercion. Every year, thousands of foreigners are issued special visas to come to the United States and work for foreign diplomats. But immigrants’ advocates contend that some diplomats, behind the cover of diplomatic immunity, take advantage of those employees, violating local and federal labor laws and sometimes confining them to a form of modern-day slavery. A report by the Government Accountability Office in 2008 found that since 2000 at least 42 foreigners brought to the United States to work as domestic workers said they were abused by their employers. The original article can be found at nytimes
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 16:47:53 +0000
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