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Egypt – Abandoned Children The Consequence Of Misfar Or Tourist Marriages

Saudi Fathers Abandon 900 Children Born In Egypt

Some call it contract marriages, others called it tourist marriages, but in Egypt it is commonly known as misfar marriages.  Whatever name you called it, the meaning is that it is a short term marriage, some lasting a week, others up to a month. The duration is usually determined [...]

Dr Saeeda Khan Charged with Modern Slavery In UK

The Charge Against Dr Saeeda Khan

Dr Saeeda Khan, 68, is believed to be the first person to be charged with modern slavery in the UK. She was charged at London’s Westminster Magistrate’s Court of arranging and facilitating the arrival of a foreign national with the intention of exploitation in the UK and elsewhere. Dr Saeeda Khan, [...]

British Children Being Traded For Sex

What Is The Scale Of The Problem?

The usual impression one has of people being traded for sex in western countries is that the victims are usually young foreign women from an undeveloped country who have been trafficked into a western country and made to work as prostitutes. Sometimes the victims may be foreign children. However, UK [...]

Indonesia – When A Wife Is Forced Into Prostitution

Forced Prostitution

Last I looked, the traditional marriage vows still have the element of faithfulness to one another between the bride and the bridegroom.  But nowadays it seems that marriage vows are not being kept.  In Indonesia, a man forced his wife into prostitution in order to clear his debts.  Now, would that be a form of [...]

Kyrgyzstani Sex Slave In Dubai To Testify In Court

How often we hear of stories of young innocent women being tricked into prostitution in foreign lands.  Now a court case in Dubai gives us some idea of how this trickery works.  Often an unsuspecting victim falls into the trap because she trusted someone who betrayed that trust.  And now, one such victim from Kyrgyzstani has been [...]

Iraq – Children For Sale At Market Place

What do you expect to find for sale at the the neighborhood market?  Vegetables? Poultry? Fish? Food items? Yes all of these.  But children for sale in a large market? Surely not.  But that’s what Swedish investigative reporters Tracey Christensen and Thor Bjorn Andersen discovered at a large market in Baghdad, Iraq. And they saw not only [...]