A Filipino domestic worker who was sexually abused by her Hong Kong employer will take the city's police to court over their decision not to classify her as a victim of human trafficking, her lawyers said Friday.
Activists have long argued that the city's 370,000 domestic workers - mostly poor women from the Philippines and Indonesia - are acutely vulnerable to various forms of exploitation, including sexual abuse, and have backed calls for a suite of dedicated anti-trafficking laws.
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