Diplomatic Immunity
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (United Nations, 1961)
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (United Nations, 1963)
How to prevent human trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households and protect private domestic workers, (Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, 2014)
Diplomatic Immunity and the Abuse of Domestic Workers: Criminal and Civil Remedies in the United States, Martina E. Vandenberg & Sarah Bessell, 26 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, pp. 595-633 (2016)
Instructions for applying for deferred action for holders of A-3 or G-5 Visas (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)
Hidden in the Home: Abuse of Domestic Workers with Special Visas in the United States, (Human Rights Watch, 2001)
Human Trafficking and Diplomatic Immunity: Impunity No More?, Martina E. Vandenberg & Alexandra F. Levy, 7 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 77 (2012)
Achieving Accountability for Migrant Domestic Worker Abuse, Janie A. Chuang, 88 N. C. L. Rev. 1627 (2010)
Does Immunity Mean Impunity? The Legal and Political Battle of Household Workers Against Trafficking and Exploitation by Their Foreign Diplomat Employers, Jennifer Hoover Kappus, 61 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 269 (2010)
Swarna and Baoanan: Unraveling the Diplomatic Immunity Defense to Domestic Worker Abuse, Emily F. Siedell, 26 Md. J. Int’l L 173 (2011)
Unlocking the Doors to Justice: Protecting the Rights and Remedies of Domestic Workers in the Face of Diplomatic Immunity, Amy Tai, American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. 17, no.1 (2007
“U.S. Government’s Efforts to Address Alleged Abuse of Household Workers by Foreign Diplomats with Immunity Could be Strengthened,” GAO Report to the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate (U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2008)
Unprotected Work, Invisible Exploitation: Trafficking for the Purpose of Domestic Servitude (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 2010)
Declaration on the Petition Alleging Violations by the United States of America of the Human Rights of Domestic Workers Employed by Diplomats Amicus Brief: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Sarah L. Bessell, The Human Trafficking Legal Center, March 1, 2021)