Freedom's on the march in Iraq: 2000 women/girls SOLD as sex slaves!

[BlooInBloo]

Time via Kos:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186519,00.html?promoid=rss_top

"The Missing Girls of Iraq
Sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam Hussein, has resurfaced in Iraq. TIME reports on a seldom-discussed epidemic: girls being kidnapped and sold to brothels"

"As a result, sex trafficking has been allowed to fester unchecked.

"It is a problem, definitely," says the official, who has heard specific reports from Iraqi aid workers about girls being kidnapped and sold to brothels. "Unfortunately, the security situation doesn't allow us to follow up on this." The U.S. State Department's June 2005 trafficking report says the extent of the problem in Iraq is "difficult to appropriately gauge" but cites an unknown number of Iraqi women and girls being sent to Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Persian Gulf countries for sexual exploitation. Statistics are further made murky by tribal tradition. Families are usually so shamed by the disappearance of a daughter that they do not report kidnappings. And the resulting stigma of compromised chastity is such that even if the girl should resurface, she may never be taken back by her relations."



Was Hussein evil? Certainly.
Is Iraq even worse off now? Indubitably.

More of gw's legacy.


EDIT: Put in more quote for folks who didn't feel like clicking.

[ShortnFiery]

1. This is tragic ... depraved for a so called budding democracy. eom

[Midlodemocrat]

2. There was a great movie yesterday on Lifetime called

Human Trafficking. It was about the trafficking of young women, mostly, but some boys in various parts of the world. The only word for it is chilling. Horrifying comes close. Truly, truly scary stuff.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Kristof did a lot to open the topic with his Cambodia reporting....

[rocktivity]

3. GOOD NEWS!

Employment opportunities increase for Iraqi women!

:party: This post is part of the George Bush GULF WAR GOOD NEWS initiative.
rocknation

[jerry611]

5. Global problem

Well human traffiking is a global problem. And no one really wants to do anything about it. The US ignores it. The UN ignores it. Europe ignores it.
The Saudi's are a major player in this trade (in the mid-east at least). Which explains why we ignore it (oil). And apparently Europeans are the biggest buyers. Which explains why they ignore it.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Important point tho: The United States CREATED the problem in Iraq.

There's no way to blame anyone else for what's happening in Iraq on this.

And you can't try to misdirect by saying "look at them - they're just as bad". This is just about Iraq. They didn't used to sell women as sex slaves, and now they do.

[wryter2000]

7. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[BlooInBloo]

9. What wryter said!

:hi:

[DrDebug]

10. Don't forget the Russian girls

Most prostitutes are Russian women, since they are white (and that's not meant to be racist, but simply the way it is), pretty and easy to persuade to take the offers of great jobs in the west. The moment they leave Russia is when they are sold on and made ready for prostitution (=rape) to end up in the sex industry. Just look at the women on the internet, the fast majority are from Russia and the former Soviet Union nowadays.

[newyawker99]

11. Hi jerry611!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[951-Riverside]

8. So much for strict muslim rule

I wonder about many radical muslims will kill and beat men selling their sisters into prostitution?