Uganda: Travel Fees

Sex Slaves Dept: Instead many are forced to become "sex slaves" to pay off travel fees and other costs, totalling as much as $7,000. The traffickers brainwash their victims into believing they may die if they quit, apparently by collecting samples of their hair and fingernails, according to Winnipeg Free Press. And Ugandan officials say it is hard to cripple a highly organized syndicate that preys on educated but vulnerable women, and then intimidates them into the kind of silence that hampers investigations and kAMPALA, Uganda - Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda's capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender. Authorities say nearly all of the prostituted girls have college degrees but have failed to find jobs in Uganda, where unemployment is high. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.