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Agony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade
Zunera once dreamed of becoming a computer engineer. Instead, aged 16, she was tricked into prostitution in the UAE, beginning a four-year nightmare of cruelty, violence and rape.
Pakistan has long been an important source of cheap labour for the Gulf state, particularly its booming construction sector.
But campaigners and officials say hundreds of young Pakistani women are also trafficked every year to supply the thriving sex trade in the brothels and nightclubs of Dubai. Zunera and her sister Shaista were two of them.
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http://news.yahoo.com/agony-pakistani-women-enslaved-dubai-sex-trade-054926784.html;_ylt=A0LEV0wjc8NT.CMAPWtXNyoA
Pakistan has long been an important source of cheap labour for the Gulf state, particularly its booming construction sector.
But campaigners and officials say hundreds of young Pakistani women are also trafficked every year to supply the thriving sex trade in the brothels and nightclubs of Dubai. Zunera and her sister Shaista were two of them.
...
http://news.yahoo.com/agony-pakistani-women-enslaved-dubai-sex-trade-054926784.html;_ylt=A0LEV0wjc8NT.CMAPWtXNyoA
How does anyone in good conscience visit or do business with Dubai?
Slavery of all kinds goes on there constantly. When will the world stop ignoring it?
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God almighty, this is hideous. Just when you think the world couldn't be
worse for women, especially those in poor countries. I so hope they get the help they need.
I'd donate in a nanosecond if I knew of an agency who would reach
out to them. 
I do give to an organization called International Justice Mission. They work
to free enslaved people, mostly sex trafficked girls...They started in India and have
now moved as far afield as Brazil, so I would imagine they would be aware of this incident, but I'm
going to go to their website to be sure.
Dubai is a populous city in the United Arab Emirates. An emirate is a patriarchal monarchy.
The United Arab Emirates is a federal state that comprises seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven forming the electoral college for the federation's President and Prime Minister. As most emirates have either disappeared, been integrated in a larger modern state or changed their rulers' styles, e.g. to malik (Arabic for king) or sultan, such true emirate-states have become rare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate
It's not surprising that such malevolent, degrading practices exist freely in a city ruled by hereditary patriarchal monarchs.
I have been traveling recently, and many of the airports and major metro stations were full of advertising imploring people to "come to Dubai". Coincidentally, I took this picture below, of one of these Dubai posters in Union Station in Chicago, last Saturday.
Thank you for your post to help raise awareness of what a totally evil place Dubai is.