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Kuwaiti Human Rights

Angra Mainyu said:
Harry Bosch said:
Yes you can. Prostitution is legal in much of Europe and not all of the women are free to make the choice.
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I'm not sure if you're being serious, but prostitution is legal in much of Europe as long as the woman or man is free to make the choice.
In other words, it's not legal to force someone into prostitution, or to buy a person.
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True. However there are some women held in Europe against their will. I've raised money for a group who seeks to identify them in Europe, and then try to free them. Below is one story, but there are many many other examples:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/romanian-girls-trafficked-sold-sex-3175123
 
Harry_Bosch said:
Angra Mainyu said:
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but prostitution is legal in much of Europe as long as the woman or man is free to make the choice.
In other words, it's not legal to force someone into prostitution, or to buy a person.
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True. However there are some women held in Europe against their will. I've raised money for a group who seeks to identify them in Europe, and then try to free them. Below is one story, but there are many many other examples:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/romanian-girls-trafficked-sold-sex-3175123
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The difference is that the State does nothing about human rights abuses vs women from Romania who are not that dumb. They know why they are entering the UK

Per the article

Meder told us he would be driving to Britain this week on business. Yesterday we informed *Scotland Yard of our investigation and told them Meder was heading here.

The giggling, starry-eyed girls know a life of prostitution awaits but can have little idea of the brutal reality that may entail.

Once in the UK, the girls disappear into a black market of sleazy backstreet saunas, brothels and relentless escort agency work . Many turn to drugs in despair.

The girls are briefed on how to dupe immigration officials into believing they are entering the country to earn a living as hotel workers, waitresses or cleaners.

Last night a shocked Labour MP Fiona MacTaggart, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking, said of our evidence: “This is clearly horrible exploitation.

There is bound to be some human traffiking. However if the girls escape they may sometimes get help from the UK authorities. If someone in Kuwait escapes, they become an illegal immigration and classed as an absconder. That is to say they are talking livestock and owned by their employer. This is similar to the U.A.E. where labour laws exclude domestic helpers.

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Loren Pechtel said:
untermensche said:
When was the last military invasion and occupation in Europe?
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Georgia, 2014, IIRC.
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By someone outside Europe?
 
More on Human Rights in Kuwait

https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/10/06/kuwait-abused-domestic-workers-nowhere-turn

Data compiled by Human Rights Watch shows that in 2009, domestic workers from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ethiopia filed over 10,000 complaints about their treatment with their embassies in Kuwait.

And

The domestic workers interviewed cited a variety of abuses by their employers, including nonpayment of wages, refusal to grant days off, and physical or sexual assault. But they said they had found it virtually impossible to pursue their complaints.

They found that they could only pursue a legal claim if they were willing to wait weeks or months in a crowded embassy shelter while negotiations with their sponsor, or a protracted legal case, proceeded. An "absconding" report by the employer immediately invalidates a migrant worker's legal residency status, leaving her with no legal way to work and send money home while awaiting resolution of her claim.

However in order to improve 'human rights' in Kuwait, the government opened up a new shelter with 700 beds

Sexual Assault and Physical Abuse at Kuwait’s Shelter for Domestic Workers

https://www.migrant-rights.org/2015...buse-at-kuwaits-shelter-for-domestic-workers/

The Ministry of Labor opened the country’s first shelter in response to the growing number of runaway workers. Authorities claim “it is one of the best specialized centers in the Middle East” but it’s not quite clear what this specialization entails. The shelter boasts 700 beds, but its privately contracted staff is untrained and has no experience dealing with survivors of abuse. Migrant-Rights.org spoke to one woman who claims that the staff not only failed to provide basic support services, but physically and sexually harassed the shelter’s vulnerable residents

I may add that there are also foreign companies who are engaged in deception of workers who arrive to work in Kuwait.

A lot seems to be tied into the general gross ineptitude of Kuwaiti government structures as a whole.
 
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