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The testimonies of human trafficking survivors that appear in this section of the site are compiled from a variety of sources, including print and online media, television, governmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and individual survivors. Note: All the news stories are the copyright of the publications. All non-public sources have granted Polaris Project permission to include the testimonies for the purpose of raising awareness about the real life experiences of men, women, and children who have been forced into labor and sexual exploitation.
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"I met a woman in the store, who used to be our neighbour a few years ago. She learned that I was looking for a job, but could not find one. She said that she was working in a labour recruiting company and that they were sending people abroad to work in cafés and restaurants or as babysitters. It looked like a good opportunity and I agreed. |
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Mina was a single mother of two from Tajikistan struggling to survive. A friend in Tashkent told her that there was good work in Dubai. The friend made the travel arrangements, and Mina was trafficked to Dubai where she by chance encountered several countrymen who told her that she would be forced into prostitution. |
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Nasreen was a Tajik girl who worked in Moscow. Her boss asked her to become his mistress, promising money, housing, a car, and a better life. Nasreen agreed to this arrangement. One day, a houseguest offered Nasreen the opportunity to work in Turkey. |
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A rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo recruited Natalia when she was 12: "One day, rebels attacked the village where I lived. I hid and watched as they killed my relatives and raped my mother and sisters. I thought if I joined their army, I would be safe. |
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Q: How long are you already here?
Natalya: I'm here for two months now. I came over Romania and Yugoslavia. |
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"I was born in 1981 in the Ukraine's Poltava region. I had never known who my father was. My grandmother told me that he had worked at the collective farm and had died there during the fire. My mother died after the Chernobyl catastrophe when I was 5 years old and my grandmother brought me up. I studied at school and worked hard at the collective farm.
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Noi came from a poor community in rural Thailand. At 15, seeking to escape rape and sexual abuse in her foster family, she found a foreign labor agent in Bangkok who advertised well-paid waitress jobs in Japan. She flew to Japan and later learned that she had entered Japan on a tourist visa under a false identity. On her arrival in Japan, she was taken to a karaoke bar where the owner raped her, subjected her to a blood test and then bought her. |
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In a noisy Bangkok suburb, a young woman hugged her two children and young baby and spoke of what happened to her when she was offered a job as a waitress in a Thai restaurant in London.
“When I arrived the first day they took me sightseeing and photographed me by the Houses of Parliament, the big clock [Big Ben] and in Trafalgar Square. But after that they locked us up. Then I was taken to see a Chinese. They looked me over and afterwards I was told I had been sold for 20,000 pounds (1.14 million baht). To pay off this debt, I would have to sleep with more than 500 men. |
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"I was born in a city in the south of Albania in a very problematic family environment. I am sixteen years old. My father used to drink a lot, and he only worked sporadically. He still faces alcohol problems. He used to be violent when he was drunk and would physically abuse me, my mother, and my brother and sisters. Meanwhile my mother worked as a garbage collector, but all her salary was appropriated from my father in order to drink and gamble. |
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Olexandra is 23 years old now. She was born in Chernigiv, North Ukraine.
Olexandra had been studied in local University several years. Later she got marriage and gave the birth to the daughter.
Her daughter was two when she got divorce.
Olexandra was in difficult financial situation and that’s why she agreed on proposition of distant relative woman to go to Germany. |
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THE FRONTLINES