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Middle East & North Africa

News and Updates

UNICEF Committee on the Rights of the Child: Child Trafficking Country Review
Focus on references to child trafficking in the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Women Leaders Gather in Israel to Combat Crime of Trafficking¹
An impressive array of female leaders from throughout the world recently gathered in Haifa to address a host of common concerns, including a problem that is becoming a world-wide plague: trafficking in human beings.

Foreign Workers Begin to Protest in UAE¹
The Al Hamed construction labor camp is a hardscrabble jumble of battered trailers, where 7,800 laborers sleep, cook meals, and kneel to pray in an outdoor pavilion of corrugated tin.

Expert on Trafficking in Persons Ends Visit to Lebanon
Sigma Huda, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, made the following statement to media in Beirut on 15 September 2005 at the end of a visit to Lebanon: Permit me first of all to thank the Government for inviting me to Lebanon.