{"id":2173,"date":"2007-06-14T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T09:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2007-06-14T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T09:52:04","slug":"2007-6-14-state-department-human-trafficking-report-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2173","title":{"rendered":"State Department: Human trafficking report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Most of the Gulf countries have made it onto the Tier 3 list (those countries with the worst record in human trafficking, according to the report) of the State Department&#8217;s Trafficking in Persons Report 2007: Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. UAE is on the Tier 2 watch list.<\/p>\n<p>So is Egypt. From the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Egypt is a transit country for women trafficked from Uzbekistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and other<br \/>Eastern European countries to Israel for the purpose of sexual exploitation, and may be a source for<br \/>children trafficked internally for commercial sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. Reports indicate<br \/>that some of Cairo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s estimated 1 million street children \u00e2\u20ac\u201d both girls and boys \u00e2\u20ac\u201d are exploited in<br \/>prostitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised at this large number of street children in Cairo. Does anyone have other sources on this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition, wealthy men from the Gulf reportedly travel to Egypt to purchase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153temporary<br \/>marriages\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd with Egyptian women, including in some cases girls who are under age 18, often apparently as<br \/>a front for commercial sexual exploitation facilitated by the females\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 parents and marriage brokers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I also heard is that Cairo&#8217;s chronically underfunded state-run orphanages are using this to make some extra money (or their employees).<\/p>\n<p>The full report can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/g\/tip\/rls\/tiprpt\/2007\/index.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Most of the Gulf countries have made it onto the Tier 3 list (those countries with the worst record in human trafficking, according to the report) of the State Department&#8217;s Trafficking in Persons Report 2007: Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. UAE is on the Tier 2 watch list.<br \/>\nSo is Egypt. From the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Egypt is a transit country for women trafficked from Uzbekistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and other<br \/>\nEastern European countries to Israel for the purpose of sexual exploitation, and may be a source for<br \/>\nchildren trafficked internally for commercial sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. Reports indicate<br \/>\nthat some of Cairo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s estimated 1 million street children \u00e2\u20ac\u201d both girls and boys \u00e2\u20ac\u201d are exploited in<br \/>\nprostitution.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised at this large number of street children in Cairo. Does anyone have other sources on this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition, wealthy men from the Gulf reportedly travel to Egypt to purchase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153temporary<br \/>\nmarriages\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd with Egyptian women, including in some cases girls who are under age 18, often apparently as<br \/>\na front for commercial sexual exploitation facilitated by the females\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 parents and marriage brokers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I also heard is that Cairo&#8217;s chronically underfunded state-run orphanages are using this to make some extra money (or their employees).<br \/>\nThe full report can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/g\/tip\/rls\/tiprpt\/2007\/index.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6,228,171,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}