Human trafficking is taking place in Iraq in my ways: abuse of children, forced prostitution, and organ reaping.

Babies being abducted by their nurses and young women enslaved into prostitution are all major problems in Iraq.

Police say they’ve uncovered 60 organised crime gangs but the U.S. says the Iraqis are failing to meet minimum standards to eliminate human trafficking.

According to Iraqi law, human trafficking  means “recruiting, transporting, housing, or receiving individuals by force, threat to use force, or other means, including by coercion, kidnapping, fraud, deception, misuse of power, exchange of money, or privileges to an influential person in order to sell and exploit the trafficked individuals by means of prostitution, sexual abuse, unpaid labor, forced labor, enslavement, beggary, trading of human organs, medi cal experimentation, or by other means.”  https://sherloc.unodc.org/cld/fr/legislation/irq/law_of_2012_trafficking_in_persons_/article_1-14/law_of_2012_trafficking_in_persons.html      

Aljazeera.