Liberia has been on and off the US State Department’s human trafficking “watch list” for years. In this desperately poor country, people accept jobs from agents to work as domestic servants in other countries. Usually they are trapped, earning little money and are subject to abuse. But Prue Clarke of New Narratives reports that several hundred Liberian women used social media to escape their traffickers.
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