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Afghanistan

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Trafficking

The military and political oppression in Afghanistan has led to an increase in migration, which has made women extremely vulnerable to trafficking for prostitution. (Indrani Sinha, executive director, "Paper on Globalization & Human Rights," SANLAAP)

The Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen groups, who have taken control of most of Afghanistan, have sold afghani women into prostitution in Pakistan. (AI International Secretariat, "Women in Afghanistan: A human rights catastrophe" Amnesty International, 27 May 1998)

Kidnapped women at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border have been sold in the marketplace for R600 per kilogram in 1991. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

Prostitution

Children as young as eight and nine years old have been reported to be in prostitution in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. (Julian West, "Taliban’s law drives women to suicide," 27 May 1998) 

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Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation
Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic and Nadine Z. Mendelsohn