Amazon will pay more than 700 migrant workers roughly $1.9 million to settle claims they suffered human rights abuses as a result of exploitative labor contracts in Saudi Arabia.
While they worked at Amazon warehouses, the workers were housed in accommodations that were "overcrowded and dirty, infested with bed bugs and lacking even the most basic facilities," Amnesty wrote.
The abuses suffered by workers were so severe that they likely amounted to "human trafficking for the purpose of labor exploitation as defined by international law and standards," Amnesty wrote in the October report.
Amazon has disputed regulators' allegations, and it has said it continues to invest in worker safety.
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Persons:
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Organizations:
Amazon, Amnesty, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Investigative Journalism, Guardian
Locations:
Robbinsville , New Jersey, Saudi Arabia