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68% of human trafficking victims in Middle East, Africa: UNODC | Cairo Post - 0 views

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  • 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.
  • ccfuentez on 17 Feb 16
     
    The amount of human trafficking victims in the Middle East is 68%. Of the amount of people who are victims, one in four of them is a child. A reason for people falling victim to human trafficking is extreme poverty, entrenched inequality, and a lack of education and opportunity.
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Modern-day slavery ensnares millions worldwide - World - CBC News - 0 views

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  • 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.
  • ccfuentez on 03 Feb 16
     
    Millions of women, children, and men fall victim to modern day slavery especially in the Middle East. Syria was listed as the worst offender in 2012. Victims of human trafficking suffer physical, mental, and emotional abuse while they are taken prisoner. 
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http://www.caritas.org/includes/pdf/coatnet/traffickingfacts.pdf - 0 views

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  • ccfuentez on 06 Apr 16
     
    9.2% of all victims who are part of human trafficking are taken place in the Middle East. Majority of victims are between 18 and 24 years old. 95% of the victims experience physical or sexual violence.
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Yemeni victims of U.S. military drone strike get more than $1 million in comp... - 1 views

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  • Kat Craig, a legal director for the group, said the records undermine U.S. claims “that the victims of this drone attack were anything other than civilians” and said the size of the payouts suggest that the Yemeni government — among the poorest in the Middle East — is being reimbursed by the United States.
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Syria opposition group claims 1,300 killed in chemical attack in Damascus suburbs - CBS... - 0 views

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  • hkerby2 on 02 Feb 15
     
    A Syrian Opposition group killed 1300 civilians in a chemical weapon attack in Damascus. Many of the victims were women and children. The victims presented with classic signs of chemical poisoning, including foaming mouth and dilated pupils. The attach occurred on August 21, 2013
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Report: 600,000 forced labor victims in Middle East - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Millions of migrant workers flood to the Middle East from some of the world's poorest countries in search of paid work they won't find at home.
  • But for some, the journey doesn't end as they hope. Instead, they become victims of human trafficking, forced labor and sexual exploitation.
  • "They were lured into jobs that either didn't exist or that were offered under conditions that were very different from what they were promised in the first place," she said.
  • ccfuentez on 10 Feb 16
     
    People who are usually poorly educated and have limited financial resources in the Middle East typically find themselves falling victims to forced labor and human trafficking. The people are taken to private homes and confined, beaten, and raped by their employers.
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Human trafficking in South Africa: an elusive statistical nightmare - 0 views

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  • ccfuentez on 02 Mar 16
     
    The actual number of human trafficking victims is unable to be determined. This is because there is not an official database on human trafficking. It is hard for some police officials to positively identify trafficking cases. In some cases many people do not even recognize they are victims of the crime.
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Child trafficking on the rise, UN says | World | DW.COM | 11.01.2013 - 0 views

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  • ccfuentez on 06 Apr 16
     
    Many children who are victims of human trafficking are forced into prostitution, forced labor, and misused for illegal trade of organs. Two thirds of the victims are girls and majority are found in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
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IRIN | Still a destination for human trafficking - 0 views

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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.
  • ccfuentez on 22 Feb 16
     
    Women from former Soviet Union and China are still being trafficked across the border with Egypt into Israel for forced prostitution by organized criminal groups. Israeli government has made some efforts to comply with minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking including donating money to provide shelter for foreign victims of sex trafficking. 
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Types of human trafficking / Trafficking in human beings / Crime areas / Internet / Hom... - 0 views

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  • There are many forms of trafficking, but one consistent aspect is the abuse of the inherent vulnerability of the victims.
  • ccfuentez on 10 Mar 16
     
    There are many different types of human trafficking, but the one thing the different types all have in common is the vulnerability of the victims. The reason and types of different human trafficking include trafficking for forced labor, sexual exploitation, commercial sexual exploitation of children in tourism, trafficking for tissue, cells, and organs, and others.
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UN: 1 in 3 human trafficking victims a child, crime goes mostly unpunished - RT News - 0 views

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  • ccfuentez on 06 Apr 16
     
    There has been an increase in the number of children involved in human trafficking over the years. In past decades one in five human trafficking victims was a child, but now that number has increased to one in three.
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UNHCR - Algeria - 0 views

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  • ccfuentez on 13 Mar 16
     
    In Algeria, the number of human trafficking victims and unaccompanied minors has increased considerably. The main groups of people of concern for UNHCR in Algeria are vulnerable Saharawi refugees.
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http://www.protectionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Algeria.pdf - 0 views

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  • ccfuentez on 22 Mar 16
     
    Algeria is a country of origin and transit for trafficking in persons, women men and children, for forced labor, sexual exploitation and organ harvesting. Victims from Sub-Sahara Africa enter Algeria voluntarily and are trafficked to Europe. Men are primarily subjected to forced labor while women become part of the prostitution chain, paying off their smuggling debts.
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Human Trafficking Statistics | Freedom 4 Innocence - 0 views

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  • ccfuentez on 31 Mar 16
     
    In a recent breakdown of the different people who are often victims of human trafficking it was determined that 12% are men, 22% are children, and women make up 66%. Majority of the people who are part of trafficking belong to Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asian nationalities.
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