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Israel is still a destination for men and women trafficked for forced labour and sexual exploitation.

In 2008, the Israeli government gave US$1.25 million to a local NGO, Ma’agan, which provides shelter to foreign victims of sex trafficking.

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Aged 19, her mum returned home one day with a weighty proposal. “She insisted that I travel abroad for the sake of the family,” Amen explained, adding that a certain man was prepared to ‘help’. At that point, Amen had never left her state, talk less the country!

Escaping attempted rape and a violent sandstorm were just some of the horrific experiences she encountered.

Algeria is a transit and, to a lesser extent, a destination and source country for women, and, to a lesser extent, men subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking; criminal networks, which sometimes extend to sub-Saharan Africa and to Europe, are involved in both human smuggling and trafficking; sub-Saharan adults enter Algeria voluntarily but illegally, often with the aid of smugglers, for onward travel to Europe, but some of the women are forced into prostitution; some Algerian women are also forced into prostitution; some sub-Saharan men, mostly from Mali, are forced into domestic servitude

Algeria does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so

The U.S. State Department has blacklisted 23 countries for failing to even try to meet minimum standards in fighting human trafficking

Blacklisted by the State Department are Algeria, Belarus, Belize, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, North Korea, Kuwait, Libya, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Russia, South Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Yemen, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

“Ruthless Kidnapping Rings Reach From Desert Sands to U.S. Cities.” The article chronicles the touching personal accounts of Eritrean refugees being kidnapped and taken for ransom in Egypt’s Sinai desert.

we intend to give opportunities to study in the United States to those who oppose the regime

The trafficking ring is said to involve Sahrawi children being shipped to European families for adoption.

the international network had a ready list of European families who wanted to buy children for adoption, and approached the Polisario/Algerian team with the offer.

Millions of men, women and children around the world were victims of modern slavery last year, according to a new U.S. report of human trafficking.

he dark underbelly of human trafficking, an umbrella term that includes sexual exploitation, child prostitution, forced labour and debt bondage

First-hand accounts from victims highlighted the physical and psychological toll of modern slavery.

From a legal perspective “slavery” is categorized under criminal behavior. The elements of a criminal act, i.e. intent and knowledge as well as the act, are all applied in its analysis and judgment.

If forced labor is defined as modern-day slavery, almost the entire international community would be involved in this crime, especially those countries that invite “guest workers.”

"Trafficking in persons" covers various forms of exploitation including, in the words of the international Palermo protocol, "sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs".

A large part of the problem in the wealthier Arab countries is the extensive use of foreign labour