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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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Central and Eastern European Countries
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| TRAFFICKING |
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Trafficking In 1994, 69 per cent of 168 trafficking cases involved women
from Central and Eastern European Countries. Half of the women come from Russia,
Ukraine and other former Soviet Republics. Between 1993 and 1994, the number
of victims from these countries more than doubled. The number of victims from
the Czech Republic and Poland is high, increasing from 7 to 40 between 1993
and 1994. (STV reports, "Trafficking and Prostitution: The Growing Exploitation
of Migrant Women from Central and Eastern Europe," IOM, May 1995)
Methods and Techniques of Traffickers
| Trafficked Women’s
Condition of Work |
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Central
Europe |
Eastern
Europe and CIS |
Developing
Countries |
| passport taken away |
15 |
27 |
11 |
| restriction of movement/movement controlled |
20 |
22 |
8 |
| working hours: 9-12 |
5 |
10 |
3 |
| working hours: 13-18 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
| no freedom to refuse clients |
16 |
6 |
24 |
| forced to work without a condom |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| physical violence used against victim |
13 |
10 |
9 |
| victim threatened with violence |
13 |
5 |
9 |
| victim’s family threatened |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| regular circumstances |
2 |
1 |
1 |
| unknown |
16 |
28 |
14 |
| Source: STV, 1995 ("Trafficking
and Prostitution: The Growing Exploitation of Migrant Women from Central and
Eastern Europe," IOM, May 1995) |
Victims of trafficking often enter Belgium, the Netherlands
and Switzerland legally using visas or permits for entertainers. In 1994 the
highest number of "dancers" permits to Switzerland went to women from the
countries of the former Soviet Union. (Swiss Federal Aliens Police, "Trafficking
and Prostitution: The Growing Exploitation of Migrant Women from Central and
Eastern Europe," IOM, May 1995)
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| PROSTITUTION |
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500,000 women from Central and Eastern Europe are
in prostitution in European Union nations. (Roland-Pierre Paringaux, "Prostitution
Takes a Turn for the West," Le Monde, 24 May 1998)
Since the fall of the Soviet bloc and the instillation
of democracy, the sex industry in the Central and Eastern European Countries
is booming. ("Trafficking of Women to the European Union: Characterisitics,
Trends and Policy Issues," European Conference on Trafficking in Women,
(June 1996), IOM, 7 May 1996)
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