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The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation |
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About the Factbook |
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Contents |
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Africa
Middle East
Central America
& the Caribbean
South America
North America |
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| About the Factbook |
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The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation was compiled from media,
non-governmental organization and government reports. It is an initial effort
to collect facts, statistics and known cases on global sexual exploitation.
Information is organized into four categories:
- Trafficking,
- Prostitution,
- Pornography, and
- Organized and Institutionalized
Sexual Exploitation
and Violence.
Sources were not contacted to verify information. Close examination will reveal
that there are contradictions in information depending on the sources of information
(ex: how many women are in prostitution in Thailand). All statistics are reported
with no attempt to evaluate which numbers are more likely to be accurate. In fact,
the exact numbers in many cases are not known and estimates come from different sources
which use different methods to determine what they report.
We hope these facts will assist people to recognize the harm caused throughout the world
by sexual violence and exploitation and catalyze action against this violence agianst women.
This project was made possible with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Rhode Island and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Norway.
If you use this information in your work, please reference this factbook-- The Factbook on
Global Sexual Exploitation, Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn,
Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 1999.
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Croatia
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| TRAFFICKING |
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Trafficking In the last 5 years organized crime has moved into trafficking
in women for prostitution, which has increased due to the deployment of international
military forces and the opening of Eastern European borders. ("NGO report
in the staus of women in the Republic of Croatia," 5 January 1998)
Policy and Law
Transboundary illegal trafficking of one or more persons is punishable by
imprisonment of up to one year, but carries a longer sentence when it involves
a minor, even if the person prosecuted had no previous criminal history. Procurement
for the purpose of prostitution was penalized under the law, with the imposition
of a fine or up to one year in prison. Coercion or force would increase the
sentence to up to three years. Cases involving a minor or a child carried
a sentence of up to 10 years. (Ms. Karajkovic, Assistant Minister of Justice,
UN: Women's Anti-Discrimination Committee Concludes consideration of Croatia's
initial report," M2 Presswire, 28 January 1998)
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| PROSTITUTION |
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Policy and Law
Prostitutes are not covered under the criminal rape act. (UN: Women's Anti-Discrimination
Committee Concludes consideration of Croatia's initial report," M2 Presswire,
28 January 1998)
The act of prostitution is not penalized, but solicitation is penalized.
("NGO report in the staus of women in the Republic of Croatia," 5 January
1998)
Massage parlors, telephone services, entertainment places and restaurants
front as brothels, and are increasingly common, as newspapers advertise them.
The only measures by police are occasional raids with consequent charges against
procurers and the eviction of the illegal women from Croatia. ("NGO report
in the staus of women in the Republic of Croatia," 5 January 1998)
Official Corruption and Collaboration
Prostitution is under concealed protection of the state, the law, the judiciary
and the police. There have been a number of murders connected to organized
crime gangs in Zagreb. (Boris Raseta, "Squaring of Accounts ‘Chicago Style’,"
AIM Zagreb/ GMT 20 July 1997)
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