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Human Trafficking: The Bahrain Experience

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  • Ali Al JABAL

    (AL JABAL & Associates Lawyer office, BAHREIN.)

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Drug smuggling may top the list of the world’s most profitable and headline-grabbing illegal activities, but second to that —in a close tie with the illegal arms trade — is human trafficking, the recruitment or coercion of people who are held captive as laborers in everything from the sex industry to domestic servitude. More than 12 million people worldwide are currently victims, according to the United Nations' International Labor Organization. The $9 billion industry is the 21st century’s fastest-growing criminal enterprise. And some of it takes place right here in our own backyard, an audience attending a May 29 conference at Covel Commons on human trafficking found out. In fact, according to experts who provide victims with shelter and other services, human trafficking is on the rise because of the economic downturn

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  • Ali Al JABAL, 2010. "Human Trafficking: The Bahrain Experience," Curentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, Le Courant Juridique, Petru Maior University, Faculty of Economics Law and Administrative Sciences and Pro Iure Foundation, vol. 43, pages 46-52, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pmu:cjurid:v:43:y:2010:p:46-52
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    Keywords

    human trafficking; illegal activities; sex industry; commercial sexual exploitation; forced labor.;
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    • K14 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Criminal Law

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