A new exhibition is launching in London on 17 November exposing the trafficking of African women for sexual exploitation in the UAE, entitled: ‘Send Them Home – Stop Human Trafficking’ (https://SendThemHome.co.uk).

The women featured in the exhibition are some of thousands of vulnerable women who arrive in Dubai every year from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and across Africa after being sold false promises of working in well-paid jobs in the UAE. However, when they arrive, many are tricked into forced sex work. Their passports often confiscated by their traffickers, the women are told that to regain their travel documents – and their freedom – they must pay their employer huge sums by engaging in sex work.

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