MARRIAGE MARKET : FEARS OF SYRIA'S WOMEN REFUGEES

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"Three girls in our camp were kidnapped," "They raped them. Then they brought them back to the camp. The Jordanian guys, they come to harass Syrian girls from the age of seven or six." "People from Jordan, from Saudi Arabia, from Qatar, they come and ask: 'Do you want to give your daughters for marriage?'" "What do they see us as? A market place for selling? Like selling sheep. They see we don't have money. They want to exploit us. 'Give me your daughter for 200,000 lira or 100,000 lira'. It's exploitation."

Syrian women and girls, some as young as 14 years old, are being 'sold' into forced marriages or prostitution after becoming refugees, aid workers and religious charities have said.