I was working on this when I saw greg's post. And I would just like to point out that I did say in my first response to Alex, that it's "NOT JUST MUSLIM COUNTRIES" where abuse of women is a problem. And then I listed several countries that have these kinds of problems INCLUDING INDIA, AND ANY NUMBER OF COUNTRIES IN EUROPE that are not Muslim countries. Get a grip you guys! Ok?

I believe this is the one I saw previously...

http://www.ukar.org/specter01.shtml

RAMLE, Israel — Irina always assumed that her beauty would somehow rescue her from the poverty and hopelessness of village life. A few months ago, after answering a vague ad in a small Ukrainian newspaper, she slipped off a tour boat when it put in at Haifa, hoping to make a bundle dancing naked on the tops of tables.

She was 21, self-assured and glad to be out of Ukraine. Israel offered a new world, and for a week or two everything seemed possible. Then, one morning, she was driven to a brothel, where her boss burned her passport before her eyes.

"I own you," she recalled his saying. "You are my property, and you will work until you earn your way out. Don't try to leave. You have no papers and you don't speak Hebrew. You will be arrested and deported. Then we will get you and bring you back."

And here are some more articles that mention Israel...

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/03/08/women.trafficking

An estimated 10,000 women from the former Soviet Union have been forced into prostitution in Israel.

http://abcnews.go.com/onair/CloserLook/wnt000508_CL_sexslave_feature.html

Increasingly, the victims are from Eastern Europe and Russia. Olga, which is not her real name, was lured from Moscow with the promise of a bartending job. She ended up a sex slave in Israel.

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* Lyubov, 17, arrived in Israel from a Russian coal mining city only to be sold into prostitution. Now she sits in a prison cell awaiting expulsion as an illegal worker. Six months ago, a man in Lyubov's hometown told the young woman he could get her a plane ticket, a visa and a job abroad. She entered Israel with a tour group and was met by a hotel owner who befriended her and gave her a job as a cleaner in exchange for a room. The hotel owner introduced her to friends, showed her around and taught her some Hebrew until one day he told her to get out of his car and into another. Then he drove away. "At first I didn't know I had been sold. Then my owner told me he had bought me for $9,000," Lyubov said in an interview in a prison office. Her new "owner," as she calls him, told her she would work as a call girl.

* Eastern European women are sold like slaves in Israel among Russian Mafia operators for £6,000 (US$10,000) to £9,000 (US$15,000). -Detective Toni Haddad of Haifa vice squad, Kevin Connolly "How Russia's Mafia is taking over Israel's underworld." BBC, 3 April 1998

http://www.princeton.edu/~progrev/97-98/feb98ab.html

Often the only hope for these women is that their brothels will be raided and they will be deported back to their impoverished lands, frequently penniless for their suffering. As in many nations prostitution is of little concern to officials, and in some countries, such as Israel, where there are not even specific laws against the sale of human beings, usually the punishment for the captors is ridiculously light, if they are punished at all.

LOOKS LIKE IT'S HAPPENING PRETTY MUCH EVERYWHERE (Even in Canada)

http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/31/slavery.world.reut/

Human Rights Watch is set to release a report in September on the trafficking of Thai women into the sex industry in Japan. The activist organization previously has detailed the shipment of thousands of Nepali women into India, women from Myanmar (Burma) into Thailand, and women from Eastern Europe into Bosnia. A Human Rights Watch staffer also previously investigated the trafficking of Russian women into Israel. Lederer said Russia is a prolific "sender" country. "So far we've tracked young women being trafficked from Russia to 43 countries at the last count -- pretty much every Western European country, Canada, the U.S., Mexico, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand." She also said women from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are trafficked in large numbers into the Middle East, particularly wealthier nations such as Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and even Saudi Arabia. And she said there is significant trafficking from southern and central Africa to Nigeria, which seems to be a transit point to northern Africa, Spain, and as far north as Sweden and Norway.