Prostitution in the State of Palestine

Prostitution in the State of Palestine is illegal, under Palestinian law.[1][2][3][4]

A 2009 report by the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and SAWA-All the Women Together Today and Tomorrow, a Palestinian NGO, suggested that while like in other places around the world a number of women turned to prostitution in the face of poverty and violence, in Palestine cases mainly stemmed from incidents of sexual violence, and occasionally forced marriage at a young age.[5] [6][7][8] The report urged the Palestinian authorities and Palestinian society to acknowledge the existence of the problem.[5]

  1. ^ "Flourishing Palestinian sex trade exposed in new report". Haaretz. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
  2. ^ "Report lifts veil on trafficking, prostitution of Palestinian women". CNN. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
  3. ^ "Trafficking and Forced Prostitution of Palestinian Women and Girls: Forms of Modern Day Slavery". UNHCR. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
  4. ^ "Dark secrets of the White City". Haaretz. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
  5. ^ a b "PALESTINE: Flourishing Palestinian Sex Trade Exposed in New Report". PeaceWomen. February 3, 2015.
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  7. ^ "Trafficking and Forced Prostitution of Palestinian Women and Girls: Forms of Modern Day Slavery" (PDF). Sawa.ps. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  8. ^ Massad, Salwa G; Karam, Rita; Brown, Ryan; Glick, Peter; Shaheen, Mohammed; Linnemayr, Sebastian; Khammash, Umaiyeh (24 November 2014). "Perceptions of sexual risk behavior among Palestinian youth in the West Bank: a qualitative investigation". BMC Public Health. 14: 1213. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-1213. PMC 4247558. PMID 25420532.