Erring diplomats have been able to exploit their migrant domestic workers and have gotten away with it because of diplomatic immunity. Check out Rappler's investigative series to learn more.
Justice is elusive for Filipino workers exploited by envoys invoking diplomatic immunity, but when the diplomats are Filipinos themselves, impunity is further enabled by the government that chooses to look away
Diplomats and officials of international organizations traffick, abuse, and exploit their migrant domestic workers, shielded by diplomatic immunity and their sending countries
Data show that diplomatic immunity has protected many abusive diplomats from prosecution. The complicity of their sending countries has also helped them get away with impunity.
Diplomatic immunity allows diplomats and employees of international organizations to perform their official duties without fear of criminal or civil suit