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(UPDATE) A HONG KONG judge has ruled the police had "prematurely curtailed" their investigation of a Philippine domestic worker being exploited by her employer, a biting assessment of the city's failure to protect victims of human trafficking.
The landmark ruling marks a rare victory for migrant worker activists, who have long argued that the city's 340,000 domestic workers — mostly women from the Philippines and Indonesia — are acutely vulnerable to various forms of abuse and exploitation.
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