World Remains Silent towards Humanitarian Catastrophes in Syria

Rabab, a 17 year-old Syrian girl says with a depressing voice: “10 dollars per hour! Do you know what that means?! It means bread and water; it means medicines for my ill father.”

Leila is another girl who lives at a camp outside Syria. “I have been forced into marriage twice. What could I do? I was with a rich man for some time, then he divorced me and gave me some money…I did not feel anything anymore. What matters when I have sold myself, my home is ruined and my dear ones have either been killed or missing?”

Human traffickers take advantage of such circumstances, as the tough conditions make some Syrian displaced families to force their young daughters into marriage. Although this type of marriage is more like trading, they believe this prevents their daughter from falling for corruption.

A young Jordanian who requested anonymity says: “These days everyone can marry a beautiful Syrian girl by paying a few dinars.” The young man works at a supermarket in the mornings and spends his evenings on helping young Arabs who look for Syrian girls at refugee camps in Jordan for marriage. “This way, I and the Syrian families in need can earn a little money,” he says in a teasing tone.

Sammar and Rabab’s extreme poverty outside Syria leaves them with no choice but the aforementioned option. This is while many young girls have fallen victims to sex traffickers inside Syria. The distressing conditions of the country has led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have to deal with difficulties and hardships they inevitably face while looking for a refuge and piece of bread; this is what has lead the young little girls of these families who possess no power to fall preys for sex traffickers.