Amal is not alone. Her words paint a grim picture of what it's like for countless girls growing up amid the Syrian crisis. As the conflict nears its ninth year, the full scale of its death, destruction and displacement is hard to fathom. Violence pervades both the battlefield and the home. It occurs everywhere — homes, schools, marketplaces, streets — and has come to define how young girls perceive and interact with their communities.

Syria's refugee crisis has shone a light on sex trafficking in Lebanon, where victims are often treated as criminals. Everyone in Lebanon's "sex trade" seems to be involved in trafficking in one way or another: Sources at both the Internal Security Forces ISF and the General Directorate of General Security GS in Beirut told Al Jazeera that even pimps working further down the chain of command ultimately report to a bigger network of organised traffickers. Paul has learned the ins-and-outs of Lebanon's trafficking world over the years.

In Jordan, hundreds of Syrian females have been affected by an informal trade that has sprung up since the start of the war in Syria, where men use "agents" to source Syrian refugees to use for sex. Often this is done under the guise of "marriage": The 'dowry', which in Muslim society is traditionally paid by the groom as a guarantee of the bride's security has become a payment for sex. And the "marriage", is an affair that lasts only a few days or even hours. Men travelled from Saudi Arabia and other countries to marry girls in the camps. They would pay rent for a home outside the camp and tell the women they would support them.