Yemeni human rights organization warned of the growing phenomenon of trafficking in human beings, in the wake of monitoring 500 cases of trafficking and exploitation of thousands of children and women in prostitution within the country and abroad.
The newspaper "Al Quds Al Arabi" that Ali Algelaa President of the National Institute to Combat Human Trafficking warned of the growth of this phenomenon in Yemen in recent times, and called authorities to carry out an active role in addressing this phenomenon.
He said in a seminar organized by the Yemeni Center for Studies that thousands of Yemeni children are in servitude and forced labor are trafficked across international borders each between Yemen in the GCC countries to be exploited in the hard work and begging or sexual acts.
The newspaper "Al Quds Al Arabi" that Ali Algelaa President of the National Institute to Combat Human Trafficking warned of the growth of this phenomenon in Yemen in recent times, and called authorities to carry out an active role in addressing this phenomenon.
He said in a seminar organized by the Yemeni Center for Studies that thousands of Yemeni children are in servitude and forced labor are trafficked across international borders each between Yemen in the GCC countries to be exploited in the hard work and begging or sexual acts.
He pointed out that Algelaa Yemeni girls as young as 15 years are exploited for commercial sex in hotels and clubs in the provinces of Sana'a, Aden, Taiz, while others are trafficked to Saudi Arabia.
He said that the militarization of children in Yemen fall under the phenomenon of trafficking in human beings, as the Yemeni law prohibits the involvement of those under 18 years in the military, but the Yemeni government has recruited in the wars in Sa'ada in northern Yemen children formed half the army in this most troubled areas.
Algelaa criticized the absence of the role of the Yemeni government in combating trafficking in human beings, and commented that it "did not appear to evidence now in progress in prosecuting and punishing trafficking offenders.
He said that the militarization of children in Yemen fall under the phenomenon of trafficking in human beings, as the Yemeni law prohibits the involvement of those under 18 years in the military, but the Yemeni government has recruited in the wars in Sa'ada in northern Yemen children formed half the army in this most troubled areas.
Algelaa criticized the absence of the role of the Yemeni government in combating trafficking in human beings, and commented that it "did not appear to evidence now in progress in prosecuting and punishing trafficking offenders.
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