Nepali men are lured into Afghanistan with the promise of high-paying jobs as security guards, only to find horrible working and living conditions as they try to repay the agents who brought them into the country. The men arrive in Afghanistan where the promised jobs turn out to be a fraud and they …
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Nepali Men Enslaved in Afghanistan
February 15th, 2010
Afghanistan Slavery Trafficking
UAE: Couple Guilty of Forcing Three Women into Prostitution Receives Lenient Sentence
December 26th, 2009
The Gulf News reported earlier this week that the Iraqi couple that forced two women and one girl into prostitution in the UAE, was sentenced to three years in prison each. As we’ve previously mentioned, the couple held a 17-year-old girl and two Iraqi women in an apartment in Sharjah and forc...
Nepal Struggling to Prevent Trafficking of Women to the Gulf
November 30th, 2009
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Kuwait Slavery Trafficking UAE
The UN’s IRIN News recently published a report about the difficulties Nepal’s government is having with preventing its women from traveling to the Gulf to work there in the domestic labor sector. According to Nepali activists, there is a growing problem of trafficking of women to the Gul...
Indonesian Sex Slave in Saudi Arabia Shares her Harrowing Tale
November 28th, 2009
Abusive employers Housemaids Rape Saudi Arabia Slavery Trafficking
CNN carried a report last week about a former Indonesian sex slave in Saudi Arabia. At the age of 17 the woman was promised a job as a maid in Saudi Arabia by an Indonesian recruitment agency. Coming from a poor family, she was happy to be selected for the job out of hundreds of other women. The emp...
Bangladeshi woman is the latest victim of human trafficking in Dubai
November 26th, 2009
The Gulf News reported yesterday about a case of a Bangladeshi woman who was lured to the UAE with promises of a job as a housemaid. When she arrived, she was taken by a gang of three Asian men and a woman and informed that she’ll be working as a prostitute. Trying to escape her traffickers, t...
UAE: Two Men Conspire to Sell a Pregnant Maid into Prostitution
October 27th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases News Trafficking UAE
Gulf News reports that a Bangladeshi laundryman plead guilty yesterday in a Dubai court to helping his friend, A.N., sell a 24-year-old Bangladeshi housemaid to a pimp. A.N. is also facing charges for attempted human trafficking, but was not present at the court. The maid was carrying A.N.’s b...
UAE: Two Bangladeshi Men Charged with Kidnapping and Raping Filipino Maids
October 26th, 2009
Housemaids Legal cases Rape Trafficking UAE
Two Bangladeshi men went on trial in Dubai yesterday for kidnapping two Filipino maids, gang-raping one of them and trying to force them into prostitution, Khaleej Times reported today. The housemaids were walking around Abu Dhabi when three Bangladeshi men pulled up next to them in a car and forced...
UAE: 13-year-old girl and two women from Iraq forced into prostitution
October 9th, 2009
Legal cases News Trafficking UAE
The Khaleej Times reported today about a horrible case of human trafficking and child exploitation in the UAE. An Iraqi couple was charged with human trafficking and running a prostitution ring after the police found in their apartment in Sharjah two women and one girl who were engaged in prostituti...
More slaves today than at any point in history
March 28th, 2008
Abusive employers Slavery Trafficking
According to an article in the LA Times concerning modern slavery: One hot june day in 2006, I saw what slavery really meant. In a rundown mansion in a slum of Bucharest, Romania, a pimp offered to sell me a young woman he described as “a blond.” She had bleached hair, hastily applied ma...
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