{"id":25991,"date":"2016-06-11T00:42:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T00:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rights-group-says-more-than-100-burundi-girls\/"},"modified":"2016-06-11T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T00:44:11","slug":"rights-group-says-more-than-100-burundi-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rights-group-says-more-than-100-burundi-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights group says more than 100 Burundi girls sold in the Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{More than 100 Burundian women were trafficked to Gulf nations in the past week, where some are in danger of being mistreated, a non-governmental organization said.}<\/p>\n<p>Human trafficking is a $150 billion market victimizing some 21 million people, 4.5 million of whom are sexually exploited, according to the International Labour Organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are taken there illegally,\u201d Pacifique Nininahazwe, leader of the Forum for Conscious Awareness, known by its French acronym, Focode, said in a statement in the capital, Bujumbura.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 800 others could have been trafficked to Middle Eastern countries last year, according to another organization, Burundi Women Association Confederation. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the women have been turned into slaves and are sold from one owner to another, according to police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was bought by the first boss,\u201d Aline Munyaneza, who was rescued from an Arabian Peninsula country, told reporters in Bujumbura on Thursday. \u201cAfter six months, my boss sold me to another boss. \u201cWe were treated like animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12738 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1200x-1.jpg\" alt=\"Burundian flag in Cibitoke, on June 22, 2015. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{More than 100 Burundian women were trafficked to Gulf nations in the past week, where some are in danger of being mistreated, a non-governmental organization said.} Human trafficking is a $150 billion market victimizing some 21 million people, 4.5 million of whom are sexually exploited, according to the International Labour Organization. \u201cThey are taken there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2583],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-bloomberg"],"bylines":[{"id":2583,"name":"Bloomberg","slug":"bloomberg","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2583,"name":"Bloomberg","slug":"bloomberg","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25991"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25991"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}