Commentary Flordeliza Arejola, 32, was one of several Filipinas recruited to work in the United Arab Emirates before being trafficked to work in Syria. “My employer slapped me and put my head into the wall. I escaped because he did not give me a salary for nine months,” she recently told the Washington Post. “I waited until he was asleep and climbed over the wall.” Flordeliza fled to the Philippine Embassy in Damascus, where dozens of women are seeking shelter, unable to return home. Many of them were similarly subjected to physical and sexual attacks and denied salaries they were promised. Now they are trapped in Syria. Some 5,000 miles away, authorities in the Ivory Coast detained four people and rescued 42 others, all nationals of neighboring Burkina Faso, in an anti-human trafficking operation. Nearly half of those rescued were children between the ages of 12 and 17. Recently, law …
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