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There are many forms of trafficking, but one consistent aspect is the abuse of the inherent vulnerability of the victims.

Forms of human trafficking in the Middle East include domestic servitude and forced labor, child trafficking for camel jockeys, and sex trafficking.

Human trafficking is considered a contemporary form of slavery.

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.

The Middle East and Africa region hosted the highest percentage of victims of human trafficking with 68 percent

Human trafficking is the act of trading humans, within one country or trans-nationally, by means of kidnapping, use of force, deception or other forms of coercion for different purposes including; sexual slavery, forced labor, extraction of human organs and forced marriage.

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

2.54% or approximately three-quarters of a million people are enslaved in the Middle East and North Africa.

With estimates of $34 billion to $150 billion in revenues generated, profit and greed are the motives for the transnational crime of human trafficking.

kafala, brings workers into the country and puts all the power into the hands of the employer

Egypt has been provide

with 300 recommendations by the United Nations Human Rights Council

recommendations relating to the controversial Protest and NGO Laws, media freedoms, freedom of association, the use of the death penalty, and women’s rights.

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

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.