Dubai launches campaign to highlight dangers of human trafficking

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Dubai has launched a campaign to highlight the dangers of human trafficking. The two year awareness campaign has been launched in an effort to alert job seekers and their recruiters about illegal operations in the UAE. Dubai Police officials say their statistics show that many of the human trafficking victims from the past five years had initially been recruited as domestic workers. According to officials maids are usually lured away by gangs on the promise of finding better work only to find themselves forced into prostitution. The campaign is a joint initiative between Dubai Police, the UAE National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking, the Ministry of Labour, the Department of Economic Development and the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs Dubai.

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