Shame on Dubai and Abu Dhabi: Human Trafficking

Posted on July 30, 2009

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Al Jazeera

More than one million people, the majority of them women and children, are smuggled across international borders to work in near slavery every year, the US state department says.

Its 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report lists more than 170 countries which it claims are not doing enough to tackle the problem.

Al Jazeera met “Svetlana”, a Ukrainian forced to work in the sex trade in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. [more]