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How torture, inaction underpin UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry
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How torture, inaction underpin UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry

ByEyes on Trafficking News

How torture, inaction underpin UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry African women trafficked into the UAE are forced into debt and subjected to threats and violence, as they are kept in sexual slavery. The case of Christy Gold, who has been charged with sex trafficking in Nigeria, highlights the torment endured by these women in the…

Taliban lash 12 people before stadium crowd in Afghanistan – The Toronto Star
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Taliban lash 12 people before stadium crowd in Afghanistan – The Toronto Star

ByEyes on Trafficking News

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban lashed three women and nine men in front of hundreds of spectators in a provincial sports stadium Wednesday, signaling the religious extremist group’s resumption of a brutal form of punishment that was a hallmark of their rule in the 1990s. The office of the governor of Logar province, south of…

Religious backlash threatens Somaliland’s progressive rape law
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Religious backlash threatens Somaliland’s progressive rape law

ByEyes on Trafficking News

A group of religious leaders in Somaliland is behind an attempt to replace a progressive sexual offences law passed in 2018 with a revised version that protects rapists rather than survivors and allows child marriage. In August 2018, Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi signed Somaliland’s Rape and Sexual Offences Act into law. The first of…

“Human trafficking, slavery & sexual exploitation,” from Afghanistan War Victims’ Voices
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“Human trafficking, slavery & sexual exploitation,” from Afghanistan War Victims’ Voices

ByAdam Zarnowski

Afghanistan War Victims’ Voices – PRESS RELEASE CONGRESS from The Hague Remarks at The Hague, Netherlands, on June 23rd, 2022 Regarding Crimes Against Humanity in Afghanistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w21uGV88IU?t=2924 Some people are blocked from the audio, so be sure to turn on closed captions. Good afternoon, my name is Adam Zarnowski and I will be speaking about…

Girls bought and sold “like a chicken” in Niger
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Girls bought and sold “like a chicken” in Niger

ByEyes on Trafficking News

In Niger today, tens of thousands of people are enslaved, trapped in generational cycles. Slavery remains deeply entrenched in Niger despite efforts to eradicate these practices through legislation to officially criminalize the practice. Wahaya Wahaya is one of the common forms of bondage in the country, where girls are bought to perform domestic work and…