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In Spain’s Ceuta, migrant women tell of sexual harassment: ‘it’s really bad’

Some women who entered Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on July 30 as part of a mass migrant crossing say the hardships of sleeping rough as they wait to be registered are compounded by the threat and fear of sexual harassment. More than a dozen women have set up camp on a wooded roadside running up to the barbed wire fencing that surrounds the government-run migrant reception centre, near the urban beach of El Trampolin. The facility is sheltering about 700 people, 200 more than its capacity.

18 Aug, 15:05 — 18 Aug, 15:05
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