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A New Frontier: Human Trafficking and ISIS’s Recruitment of Women From the West

2015, A. Binetti, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, A New Frontier: Human Trafficking and ISIS’s Recruitment of Women From the West
Tipo
Informe
País
República Árabe Siria (la)
Región
Medio Oriente y Norte de África
Organización
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Año
2015
Authors
A. Binetti

Human trafficking is an effective tool that serves several purposes for terrorist organizations. It facilitates the recruitment and retention of male foreign fighters and provides a reward mechanism for successful combatants.It also generates revenue and contributes to psychologically crushing “the enemy,” by “decimat[ing] communities”.Trafficking, as a tactic of warfare, “intimidates populations and reduces resistance just as enslavement and rape of women.”While it is well-understood that ISIS’s kidnapping and enslavement of Yazidi women and other female prisoners constitutes human trafficking, less attention has been paid to the prospect that some of ISIS’s female recruits from the West, who average 18 years of age 5, may also be considered victims of entrapment and trafficking because of the techniques used to lure these young women and how they are exploited upon arrival in ISIS-held territory.