Assignment: Trafficked from Uganda to Iraq

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2011 Hosted by BBC World Service

Anna Cavell tells the extraordinary story of a rescue of a group of Ugandan women who were trafficked into Iraq. They were told they would get decent jobs but instead found themselves working as slaves and subject to violence and even rape. They were saved by an unlikely pair of heroes – a Ugandan security guard and an American military officer.

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