Thursday, May 29, 2014

Witness: The “Innocent” Human Trafficker | Human Rights Watch

Source: Human Rights Watch

Amy Braunschweiger

Each year, thousands of people flee the extreme poverty and repression in the Horn of Africa to Yemen, hoping to go on to Saudi Arabia for work. In Haradh, many migrants sleep in the town square, a large expanse of parched earth littered with rotten mattresses. Many migrants fall into the hands of human traffickers who torture them to extort money from their families back home.

Read the story:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/25/witness-innocent-human-trafficker-0

Abuse of Migrants by Human Traffickers in a Climate of Impunity
MAY 25, 2014

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