Migrant Women Trapped in Europe's Sex Industry

[boann]

Originally posted by our_man
Hey, interesting information...

It's a problem in Europe definitely, even in Ireland. The abuse of women sickens me, even more than the singling out of a particular continents, or country (e.g. Britain).

Why is it worth singling out Europe in particular boann, when some of the top destinations for trafficked women (Russian, at least) are Qatar and Bahrain... I guess in your view it's acceptable to abuse women if you're an Arab then, huh? What about the sex industry in Bangkok? If you abuse women in Asia, that's all good too? What's your agenda?

Why do you hate Europe, singling it out, when this is a worldwide problem

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i didn't write the article...
in my opinion abuse against women anywhere is unacceptable...
my agenda.... making you aware of womens issues
in a forum dominated by men and boys who don't often talk about women unless it involves photographs.

i don't hate europe... but a lot of you live there
seems you might want to talk about the issue.
since it is men who create the problem.
change starts with talk ......

[Jon Miller]

go Boann

JM

[chequita guevara]

They recently uncovered a Latina sex slavery ring in Florida.

[Bosh]

you don't see people going into prostitution because they run up huge credit card debts. They declare bankruptcy and move on with their lives.

Really? Happens all the time over here.

[Ted Striker]

Sex slave "industries."

[boann]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3071965/

MSNBC.com exposes a sexual slavery network
Infiltrating Europe's shameful trade in human beings
By Preston Mendenhall

[Dinner]

When I was in the Balkans we'd report illegal whore houses and trafficing in women all the tme but the UNMIK would hardly ever take action. One of the local American commanders took it upon himself to order a raid on a hotel that was a well known center of human trafficing and over a dozen women who were kept as sex slaves were freed. The UNMIK got all territorial and said only they could do such law enforcement and that KFOR wasn't to do any more raids on human trafficers.

The long story short is that the US Army got ordered to not conduct any more raids on human trafficers and the UN still only did a raid every once in a blue moon. The ****ing UNMIK police just didn't seem to care and it was pretty easy to figure out why since the UN vehicles were always parked in front of those whore houses.

[Spiffor]

This is indeed nothing new, and the problem boils down to this:

- There is a very effective organized crime in Eastern Europe. It's the worst in countries where corruption is rampant. High-end officials there have much trouble dealing with it. These orgfanized syndicates can pressure their slaves by threatening their families.

- There are tough anti-immigration laws in Europe. Basically, we give a formidable pressure tool to the traffickers (not only in the sex industry), because the victims become extremely fragile as soon as they're stripped of their passport. This ain't gonna change soon.

- There is a huge income difference between western Europe and Eastern Europe. A poor man's wage in the west is not too shabby in the East.
Besides, prices are very different between the East and the West, which makes western money falsely look even more attractive (for example, according to the OECD, you can buy 2.5 times more stuff in Slovakia than in Denmark with the same amount of money - and they're both EU countries).

[Spiffor]

dp

[alva]

Ooh, that's gonna cost you Spiff..even with a illegal one

[Spiffor]

Yeah I know. And I'm poor at the moment

[Pekka]

Spiffor, you are correct on those points and they play key roles in the problem, and they are problems that are not going to change anytime soon.

[Zevico]

It seems to me that the best option would be the education of women in these Eastern European countries. Perhaps short programs should be run for older high school kids, etc, about the dangers of these so-called "jobs". Unless these are around already. Unless these are around already.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
because we know that you cant tax prostitution, its a service. how many services do you know of that are taxed.

Uh...most of them?

[Alexander's Horse]

thanks for reminding us Boann about this terrible trade