Trafficking in women a global problem

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Trafficking in women a global problem

• Håvard, Kirsti,
• Maria, Marieke, Olga

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What is trafficking?

• Women are being sold over national borders and
  forced into prostitution.

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Reasons for choosing this subject

• Close relationship with poverty
• Site-visit to The Nest
• A flourishing problem

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How does trafficking work?

• Hopeless situation
• Desperate solution
• Trapped in prostitution

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The victims?

• Where do they come from?
• Promises

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How many women are we talking about?

• What do we know
• 700.000 4 million world wide
• 500.000 women the inhabitants of Oslo

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Behind the trafficking

• Organised crime
• Individual traffickers

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Why are they trafficking?

• Poverty is the main reason
• the absence of realistic prospects
• women 1.4 times lower salary
• one would clutch at straws to survive.

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Why are they trafficking?

• Feminisation of poverty
• high unemployment
• lack of education
• access to resources
• low wages

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Why are they trafficking?

• Ethics
• survey
• article
• our attitude needs to be changed

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Survey from Lancet medical journal

• Public survey in England asked 11.000 men
  between 16-44 years old if they had paid for sex
  in the previous 4 years
• in 1990 2,1 men
• 2000 4,3 men

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Why are they trafficking?

• Ethics
• survey
• article
• our attitude needs to be changed

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Why are they trafficking?

• Ethics
• survey
• article
• our attitude needs to be changed

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Site-visit in Copenhagen

• The Nest a care-center for prostitutes
• 60-80 are foreigners

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Neglected, rejected and unwanted

• Severe problems
• Physically
• Mentally

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The vision

• The Nest open 24 hours
• Professionals to deal with their problems

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Lilja 4-ever

• Movie about trafficking Made by Swedish
  Director Lukas Moodysson

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Interdisciplinairy discussion

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What is being done?

• Denmark
• New law traffickers can be punished
• Maximum penalty 8 years
• First traffickers were condemned (article)

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What is being done?

• Baltic countries
• IOM campaign in 2001
• Increase awareness
• Educate potential victims

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What is being done?

• Britain
• new laws against prostitution
• more restictive legislation

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What is being done?

• Sweden
• Trafficking illegal (2002)
• 2-10 years prison
• Illegal to buy sex (2003)
• Gone down by 90

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Literature

• Anas land sisterhood in Eastern Europe,
  westview press, Colorado, 1997
• The economist - sept 4. 2004
• NIKK magazine - nr 1 2002
• Urban - sept 7. 2004
• Politikken - sept 7. 2004
• http//www.stopkvindehandel.dk
• http//www.iktk.se/ kvinna till kvinna
• http//www.celi.dk/
• http//www.state.gov/
• http//usinfo.state.gov/

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Thanks for participating!
Marieke
Maria
Havard
Olga
Kirsti