FEATURE: Sold for a packet of cigarettes – UN envoy fights to help women suffering sexual violence in the Middle East
A young man wants to smoke a cigarette but does not have the money to buy a pack.
“He has a slave girl, he goes and sells her to another man, and he gets enough money for a pack of cigarettes. That’s it. She is the value of a pack of cigarettes,” said Zainab Bangura, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
FEATURE: Sold for a packet of cigarettes – UN envoy fights to help women suffering sexual violence in the Middle East
Source: UN News – Women, Children, and Population