 Activists for women's rights in Iraq have mapped and studied prostitution in their country to understand how it functions and how trafficking spreads, showing that the majority of prostitutes are minors and that the trafficking networks extend throughout the Middle East.This campaign of enquiry, publicized by an interview on the channel MBC in May 2009, was denounced by the pro-government channel "Al-Iraqia", which held that it constituted a "humiliation for Iraqi women".Indeed, shortly before his resignation, MInister of Women's Affairs Nawal al-Samarraie had declared that the traffic in prostitution was limited and that the young women were involved voluntarily, which Yanar Mohammed had denounced.