Once you arrived, you learned the only way to make the promised money was through prostitution. She sits on a bar stool in a dark basement bar in the old quarter of Dubai, dressed in a short skirt.
Her hair is bleached. The country, and especially Dubai, one of the seven emirates, is known as a centre for prostitution and sex tourism in the Middle East.
It is one of the many in the emirate where prostitutes offer their services openly, even though prostitution is strictly forbidden in the UAE and sharia courts can impose flogging as punishment.
Plastic flower garlands hang around their necks. The walls are draped with purple and red velvet. This man is fed up with waiting. You are so stubborn. Bring your price down.
Sex services in the country are also openly advertised on websites and social media. Most of the victims had been offered a respectable job as a receptionist in a hotel or as a secretary in the UAE while still in their home countries, she explains from her office at a shelter in an Abu Dhabi suburb. This was also the case with year old Oksana, of Uzbekistan, who has long brown hair and is wearing a wide flower-print dress.
