June 21 ,2004 Morteza Aminmansour
Seattle, WA,2004

Slavery of Children and women in Persian gulf countries:


The UAE was one of the 19 countries in the world that the United States blacklisted for human trafficking. The trafficking as a modern form of Slavery leaves no land untouched..

With camel racing heavily patronized by the Use’s oil rich rulers, who have least respect in the legislature , thousands of small children from Indian sun continent face a black and future.
Women migrated from Azerbaijan, Iran Kazakhstan, Ukraine, India and Eastern Europe have reported being lured with fraudulent promises of lucrative opportunities, legitimate jobs and then forced into sexual exploitation. Women who dared resist encountered harsh punishment from their employers , including physical assault . Their status as illegal migrants made the women particularly vulnerable to attacks by customers and traffickers alike .
UAE has joined the growing global criminal activity of sex trafficking. Exact number of victims is impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in UAE, there has been increase in the number of teen- age girls in prostitution (forced to work from Iran and other countries). The magnitude of the statistic conveys how rapidly this form of abuse
Has grown. The popular destinations for victims of the sex slave trade are the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf (UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar).
Traffickers target girls between 13 and 17 to send to Arab countries. The number of Iranian women and girls who are deported from Persian Gulf countries indicates the Magnitude of the trade.

A measure of Islamic fundamentalists success in controlling the society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women.
The Islamic fundamentalists in Iran have for example expended tremendous amounts of time and efforts controlling, harassing, and punishing women and girls in the name of Islam. In Tehran, there are an estimated 84,000 women and girls in prostitution, many of them are on the Streets, others are in the 250 brothels that reportedly operate in the City. The trade is also international. Thousands of Iranian women and girls have been sold into sexual slavery abroad. The Sex Slave Trade is one of the most Profitable activities in Iran today. Iranian governments officials are involved in buying, selling and sexually abusing women and girls.
One factor contributing to the increase in prostitution and the sex slave trade is the number of female teens who are running away from home. In Tehran alone there are an estimated
25,000 Street Children, most of them girls. Many of the girls come from impoverished
Rural areas. Some addicted parents sell their Children to support their habits.
. A number of prostitution and slavery rings operating from Tehran that has sold girls and women to Britain, France, and Germany.
In Iranian Province of Khorasan, local police report that girls are being sold to Pakistani men as sex slaves.

They have passed and enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments of women and girls, enslaving them in a system of segregation.

Many Mullahs and officials are involved in the sexual exploitation and trade of women and girls. Women who are arrested for prostitution say they must have sex with the arresting officer. There are reports of police locating young women for sex for the wealthy and powerful mullahs.
Some may think a thriving sex trade in a theocracy with clerics possibly acting as pimps is a contradiction in a country founded and ruled by Islamic fundamentalists.

I would like to define the slavery as work done without any compensation under the threat
Of violence.
The modern- day of slavery are forced labor, forced prostitution.
Slavery is technically illegal everywhere but they are estimated 27 million enslaved worldwide than ever before, while the moral argument against slavery has been won, the practical struggle to end slavery is by no means over.
Camel racing in the Persian Gulf(UAE), for example is known to be slave work only by human rights experts or locals. Until poverty is overcome, some forms of slavery will always exist. Some argue that slave labor built up western capitalist development.
One of the fastest growing means by which children are enslaved today is trafficking.
Girls as young as six are trafficked to work as maids in UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Men and women and children live and work as slaves or in slave-like conditions.
The sexual enslavement of children is part of the generation exploitation of children in impoverished parts of the world.


Literatures :
1-Slavery by Harry Rosenberg
2-Modern-day slavery iAbolish
3-Sex slavery new face of oppression of women in Iran By Sepehrrad and Hughes.