Investigations from several newsrooms and Amnesty International report exploitative contracts and unsafe living conditions for foreign workers at the company's warehouses.
Amazon failed to protect contract workers in Saudi Arabia from human rights abuses that may have amounted to human trafficking. That's one of the findings from an Amnesty International exposé and combined reporting from NBC News, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, and The Guardian, all published Tuesday.
'Amazon knows each and every problem we have with the supply company.' 'The workers thought they were seizing a golden opportunity with Amazon but instead ended up suffering abuses which left many traumatized,' Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International head of economic and social justice, said in a statement. 'We suspect hundreds more endured similar appalling treatment.
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