And, today, in the whole middle east everyone, from governments to individual families, keep getting "embarassed" by having it turn that that they're "holding servants". And then it happens again. And again. And again. Daesh/IS "brought back" slavery (which is one reason bringing back terror brides, some of whom exploited slaves while in the middle east, is such a judicial nightmare. What do you do with a legally Australian girl, now a mother of 4, who lived for 2 years in Iraq, bought and sold slaves, exploited some them to "run the household", and killed/worked to death one of them?)

Slavery is abolished everywhere in the middle east ("except" Daesh/islamic state), and yet this keeps happening. Example after example after example:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/06/12/fifas-world-cup-ignores-...

https://www.freedomunited.org/news/repression-modern-slavery...

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/HRBodies...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2014/12/domestic-servitude-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5v077nyjo

https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/07/13/i-was-sold/abuse-and-e...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/22/united-arab-emirates-tra...

https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/08/24/how-can-we-work-withou...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2017/11/libya-must-e...

Oh and the royal families keep getting caught in "even more embarrassing" incidents.

Here is Saudi Arabia having a royal murder a slave for perceived insults, then forcing UK governments to allow and forgive the murder (by taking nationals hostage then organizing a "prisoner swap")

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9674420/Saudi-...

Or Qatar:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200619-qatar-prince-accu...

Or Iranian and Iraqi imams and mullahs selling children, girls, but apparently even including the occasional boy, into child prostitution, functioning as pimps and exploiters:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/W...

Frankly, these days it seems to be quite normal for countries to just sign whatever treaty anyone wants signed ... and just ignore it. Vilifying anyone calling them out on it as culturally insensitive and in all cases ignoring them.