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2009

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Human Trafficking In The Middle East And North Africa Region, Schuyler Dudley Jan 2009

Human Trafficking In The Middle East And North Africa Region, Schuyler Dudley

Human Rights & Human Welfare

The Middle East and North Africa region is not the first area to come to mind when discussing human trafficking in the world. Yet this region certainly has human trafficking problems. To clarify, the geographic region referred to in this essay, the Middle East, extends as far west as Mauritania, as far south as Sudan, as far east as Oman, and as far north as Syria. This region is also known as MENA (Middle East and North Africa), but will be referred to as the Middle East in this essay. Discrepancies in defining the Middle East, as well as inaccurate …