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Trafficking is a sub-theme of Violence Against Women, and provides information relevant to the women, peace and security agenda and its intersection with human trafficking. 

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  • March 19, 2013 (Muftah)
    IRAQ: Was Life for Iraqi Women Better Under Saddam? In March 2004, President George W. Bush gave a speech to an audience of 250 women from around the world to commemorate International Women's Day. His speech focused on the women of Iraq and Afghanistan who he proudly proclaimed were “learning the blessings of freedom” thanks to the United States. “Every woman in Iraq is better off because the rape rooms and torture chambers of Saddam Hussein are forever closed,” said Bush.
  • March 8, 2013 (Associated Press)
    SYRIA: Syrian Women Become Casualty of War, with Some Refugees Resorting to Prostitution in Jordan Walk among the plastic tents in one corner of this sprawling, dust-swept desert camp packed with Syrian refugees, and a young woman in a white headscarf signals.
  • January 23, 2013 (The Telegraph)
    SYRIA: Syrian Girls 'Sold' into Forced Marriages Syrian women and girls, some as young as 14 years old, are being 'sold' into forced marriages or prostitution after becoming refugees, aid workers and religious charities have said.
  • January 10, 2013 (Jewish Chronicle)
    ISRAEL: How Israel Leads World in Sex Trade Fight Britain is being urged to look to Israel for lessons in how to combat human trafficking and rehabilitate victims.
  • October 5, 2012 (The Dartmounth)
    IRAQ: Salbi Discusses Iraqi Women's Rights Zainab Salbi, the founder of the nonprofit humanitarian organization Women for Women International and author of “The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival and Hope,” criticized the United States for contributing to Iraqi women's diminishing social position in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq in a lecture in Filene Auditorium on Thursday.

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A web resource for combating human trafficking, more specifically this page gives resources pertaining to; "Political Conflict & Trafficking"

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