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Activists protest to raise awareness of sexual violence against Ukrainian women and children in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, on April 20, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 4, 2023, 11:13 am
Raped, abused, exploited: Ukrainian women seeking refuge in Israel find no haven
A harrowing examination reveals much abuse sliding under the authorities’ radar — or being willfully ignored — while the perpetrators remain free to commit further crimes
By Inna Lazareva
Two of the purported victims of multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein, Michelle Licata (L) and Courtney Wild leave a Manhattan court house after a hearing on sex trafficking charges, July 8, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
July 12, 2019, 7:38 pm
‘I was terrified’: Jeffrey Epstein accused of building a network of victims
Disgraced financier allegedly used army of recruiters to find, molest dozens of girls as young as 14. ‘He could have had me killed or abducted,’ says accuser during hearing
By Thomas URBAIN
Mahek Liaqat, a Pakistani Christian girl lured into a marriage with a Chinese national, shows her marriage certificate in Gujranwala, Pakistan, April 14, 2019. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
May 7, 2019, 10:54 am
Pakistani Christian girls targeted by Chinese as brides
Human trafficking, abuse cited as impoverished Christian families offered cash to marry off their daughters, some as young as 13
By KATHY GANNON and Dake Kang
Illustrative: A young woman stands outside a south Tel Aviv brothel, September 21, 2008. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
June 13, 2018, 6:09 pm
Justice minister presents legislation to fine johns who hire prostitutes
Ayelet Shaked unveils government-sponsored bill that would impose a penalty on customers purchasing sex services
By Tamar Pileggi
Shannon Nuszen
July 2, 2017, 2:28 pm
Shannon Nuszen
Sex ed in the marketplace
A grisly campaign against human trafficking and prostitution shocks the lunch crowd
Pope Francis speaks to believers as he leaves the Porziuncola (Portiuncula) at Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica, near Assisi, August 4, 2016, during a private visit to mark the 800th anniversary of the 'Pardon of Assisi,' in which the slates of sinners can be wiped clean. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)
August 14, 2016, 6:18 am
Pope arrives for surprise visit to ex-prostitutes
In ‘Friday of Mercy,’ Catholic pontiff hears stories of victims of human trafficking, which he’s called a crime against humanity
By AFP
Illustrative: A young woman stands outside a south Tel Aviv brothel, September 21, 2008. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
May 2, 2016, 6:14 am
In anti-prostitution battle, Israel takes a trick out of Europe’s book
Justice Ministry to mull the popular ‘Nordic model’ of criminalizing the frequenting of sex workers, but Israelis aren’t sold on the idea
By Marissa Newman
This Thursday April 7, 2016 photo shows barred rooms of the Chez Maurice Hotel in Beirut, where Lebanese security forces busted a sex trafficking ring involving 75 Syrian refugee women forced into prostitution. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
April 13, 2016, 1:39 pm
Lebanese police free 75 Syrian refugees from sex traffickers
Dozens of displaced women were imprisoned in filthy hotel rooms, beaten, raped and forced into prostitution, officials say
By Bassam Mroue
Luxury towers in Tel Aviv, July 06, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
November 29, 2015, 3:04 pm
Police bust women-trafficking, prostitution ring in TA
Network smuggled Russian and Ukrainian women into Israel and ran brothels in luxury high-rises, investigators charge
By ToI Staff
Islamic State fighters pass by a convoy in the town of Tel Abyad in northeast Syria, May 4, 2015. (Jihadist website via AP)
From the WebAugust 7, 2015, 12:28 am
IS executes 19 women ‘for refusing to take part in sexual jihad’
Victims in group’s stronghold of Mosul refused to have sex with jihadi fighters, The Independent reports
In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, a 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by the Islamic State group and forcibly married to a militant in Syria sits on the floor of a one-room house she now shares with her family after escaping in early August, while speaking in an interview with The Associated Press in Maqluba, a hamlet near the Kurdish city of Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)
October 13, 2014, 7:41 am
Islamic State magazine says group enslaved Yazidis
Hundreds of women and children said held by Islamists, some of them given or sold to IS fighters
By Vivian Salama
Meshael Alayban, 42, sits in court during her arraignment in a Santa Ana court on Friday, September 20, 2013. Prosecutors on Friday dropped a human-trafficking case that was brought against Alayban, a Saudi princess, this summer after a Kenyan maid alleged her passport had been taken away and she had been forced to work long hours for meager pay. (photo credit: AP/Nick Ut, Pool)
September 21, 2013, 8:51 am
Trafficking case against Saudi princess dismissed
US investigators tell court evidence did not support Kenyan maid’s claims she had been forced to work, had passport taken away
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON
Calev Michael Myers
March 6, 2013, 1:55 pm
Calev Michael Myers
Battling Israel’s sex trade
The best ammunication is criminalizing clients, not legalizing prostitution
Illustrative photo of a sex worker (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
May 10, 2012, 6:16 pm
‘Israel’s biggest pimp’ sentenced to 18 years
Rami Saban and his accomplices to be imprisoned for trafficking, soliciting, and abusing women
By Ilan Ben Zion
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