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December 31st, 2007

Documentation Gulf Slavery Trafficking UAE

This is a compilation of articles concerning migrant workers in the Middle East.

- Slavery of children and women in Persian gulf countries

- Most citizens of Kazakhstan who fall victim to human trafficking are sent to the UAE

- May 26: “A group of Iranian boys and girls will be sold in an auction today in Fojeyreh, UAE”

- Muka worked for Halla, a UAE diplomat

- Nepal a “source country” for girls & women trafficked to the UAE for domestic servitude

- Police officer arrested, but the trafficking in women for the UAE continues

- Saudi Arabia/GCC States: Ratify Migrant Rights Treaty

- Boys, sometimes as young as 5, are sent to the UAE from Bangladesh, India & Pakistan

- Report lists United Arab Emirates as a country tolerating slavery

- Case studies about female domestic workers in the UAE [PDF]

- Report states that women & children are trafficked as prostitutes or brides to the UAE

- 20-year old Tatyana was promised a job, then stripped of her passport and sold to a brothel

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