Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (17370)	7/18/2002 8:06:03 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 27666

Many Tajik women (Muslims) forced to work as sex slaves in Gulf states DUSHANBE (Tajikistan) - Hundreds of young Tajik women, many of them mothers with small children and abandoned by their husbands, are being lured into the sex trade in the Gulf states by the promise of good wages in domestic service. The phenomenon is recent in this remote, predominantly Muslim Central Asian republic. Advertisement But the 700 women who headed for the Gulf last year could be followed by an even greater number this year, said Mr Igor Bosc, Tajikistan's representative at the International Organisation for Migration. One victim, Jamila, described her ordeal as a sex slave: 'I was offered a job as a baby-sitter in Dubai, but once I got there I was taken to a hotel where they took my passport away, saying it was for registration. 'Then a man came to my room and said I was going to be a prostitute. He 'tested' me and then his bodyguards came and did the same.' Jamila said she had been able to return to Tajikistan, thanks to her 'first Arab clients' who paid her pimp US$5,000 (S$8,700) and then set her free. Another victim, also lured to Dubai by the promise of normal work, said her boss had forced her to take up to 20 clients a day. Ms Gulchekhra Mirzoyeva, head of a Tajik women's rights group, said that many of the women had a strict Islamic upbringing. Though polygamy is theoretically banned in Tajikistan, women accepted being second or third wives. They ended up with children and no material support, she said. Mr Bosc said that in travelling to countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia or Turkey, the women may be looking for a job - as a salesgirl, for instance - or perhaps a husband. But their illusions do not last long. 'They become slaves. Unlike the Russian or Ukrainian women who find themselves in similar situations, the Tajiks are resigned and don't even attempt to contact their embassy,' Ms Mirzoyeva said. --AFP