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“The Thomson Reuters Foundation has partnered with Equality Now, Latham & Watkins LLP (Latham & Watkins) and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to produce a landscape analysis of human trafficking and prostitution laws in certain countries in Africa and the Middle East. This analysis is intended to assist Equality Now in strategically targeting countries to advocate for legal reform towards the elimination of sex trafficking. This Overview does not contain the full findings of the research, but rather, is intended to provide a high-level overview of the relevant trafficking and prostitution laws in those countries. This project was undertaken on a pro bono basis by Latham & Watkins and RBS through TrustLaw, a global pro bono marketplace supported created by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. This project is one of a series of TrustLaw projects programmes that provides a legal framework that can be used to improve laws and policies that affect women. The Thomson Reuters Foundation is immensely grateful to Latham & Watkins and RBS and to their lawyers from around the world for donating their time and expertise to this project. The jurisdictions examined for this project were Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (the MENA countries) and Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal (the ECOWAS countries).