Tuesday, June 26, 2007

'50,000 Iraqi refugees' forced into prostitution / Independent on Sunday, 24 June 2007 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2701324.ece
Nihal Hassan
"There are more than a million Iraqi refugees in Syria, many are women whose husbands or fathers have been killed. Banned from working legally, they have few options outside the sex trade. No one knows how many end up as prostitutes, but Hana Ibrahim, founder of the Iraqi women's group Women's Will, puts the figure at 50,000."