Safe World for Women

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Human Trafficking: Middle East

The ordeal of Kenyans in Arab ‘slave markets’

Mwanaisha was approached by a recruitment agency in Nairobi – where she worked as a store clerk – and promised a better paying job doing house chores in Saudi…

LEBANON: Maid's suicide highlights sponsorship system’s flaws

Alem Dechasa-Desisa left Ethiopia the day after Christmas last year. She headed for Lebanon, where she planned to make enough money to support her two…

LEBANON: When suicide is the only escape

For Alem Dechesa, death was the only way out. For thousands of voiceless Ethiopian domestic workers working in Lebanon, suicide is the only avenue for escaping…

Iraq's Sex-Trafficking Epidemic

Rania was 16 years old when officials raped her during Saddam Hussein’s 1991 crackdown in Iraq’s Shia south. "My bothers were sentenced to death,…

UAE court hears ordeal of trafficking victim

Five Bangladeshi men allegedly tried to force a woman compatriot into prostitution after luring her from her country. The men deceived the 21-year-old woman…

Prostitution in Israel - 'prosecute the client'

Roni Aloni Asdovnik leads the Task Force Agents on Human Trafficking in Israel... "The client is paying for the rape yet he is not classed as part of the…

Human Trafficking in Libya

“I told my mum that I wanted to get a job during the holidays; I wanted save some money before I gain admission into the university". A young Nigerian teenager…

Highlighting Sex Trafficking in Israel

In a shopping center in Tel Aviv, women standing in a window display tagged with price tickets were being offered for sale. Each woman's price tag detailed her…