One of the largest cities in the UAE, Dubai, is home to about three million people. A couple of years ago, the population was entirely indigenous to the emirate. Now, a third of the living in the metropolis are foreigners working under a contract and living in the UAE with their families.
Dubai is a tourist mecca. In 2019, the city was visited by about 19 million tourists from all over the world.
In this regard, the authorities have relied on the development of the service sector, which was previously not welcomed in the country. Drinking alcohol, although officially banned in the country, is for example allowed in hotels, bars, restaurants and nightclubs. Women of easy virtue are also “allowed” to be there. Although, again, prostitution is officially prohibited in the UAE.
But in tourist places for a certain fee, you can call a girl to your room for the night. There is even a certain hierarchy among the representatives of this profession: the prostitutes from European countries and China are considered to be highly paid, the priestesses of love from India and the Philippines earn a little less, writes lemonde.fr.
According to various estimates, before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there were about 45 thousand prostitutes in Dubai.
In 2017, the UN published the testimony of a girl from Uzbekistan who had been in sexual slavery in Dubai for a year and a half. She said that she would rather be deported to her homeland than to be in the UAE: the conditions of her “work” were so terrible.
Not so long ago, the world media reported on the statements of women from Bangladesh who became victims of human trafficking. They were invited to Dubai supposedly to work, but in fact they were forced to work at night.
For several years, the US State Department's annual reports on human trafficking have noted that “the government of the United Arab Emirates does not fully comply with the minimum standards to eradicate human trafficking.”
