Reports | 25 05 2020
The Lebanese security forces revealed a network of women exploitation, in the Lebanese town of Jounieh, and according to a Lebanese security source; most of the women were Syrian. Then in Khalda, another network of exploit other Syrian women was revealed.
Group of Syrian women who are refugees in Jordan are also subjected to exploitation according to “Balad Radio” report Radio.
Syrian women have been subjected to beatings, torture, rape; women were displaced due to the Syrian war, to fall in the perils of another war not less than the first in cruelty.
The crime of trafficking in women and, unlike the rest of the crimes, where the talk about it is less and its existence in the police offices is less, and it is covered usually due to for many political and social reasons”, says the lawyer Leila Odat who is specialized in international law of armed conflict.
"In the exploitation of women crimes, there is full coordination between the gangsters who appear in the interface scene, and between Anonymous in the backstage like clerics or politician who secure the protection for gangsters, and prevent the of punishment applying on them, and often they do not show up and no one knows anything about them. But the effects of what they do appear and can’t be hidden, “adds the Syrian writer Khawla Dunia, a member of the Republic Democracy Center, the section of women and society.
Syrian exploit stories do not stop at Jounieh, Lebanon. There are other stories in Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, and in many countries reintroduced the Syrian White Slave with the beginning of the Syrian war, and it may does not stop until the war stop.
How can the Syrian women victims be saved? And how could their rehabilitation happen in a society consider them guilty? How can criminals be accountable? And what is the attitude of the international law of this case?
The balance program addresses the issue with the Syrian writer Khawla Dunia, and with interventions of the international lawyer Leila Odat.
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