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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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Spain
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| TRAFFICKING |
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An international trafficking network was broken up and 15 people arrested
for allegedly trafficking dozens of women from the Dominican Republic, Brazil,
Columbia, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria to Spain, forcing them into prostitution.
The network had charged the women US$1,300 for recruitment and transportation
fees. ("Spanish Prostitution Ring Busted," Associated Press, 18 April
1998)
The Venezuelan Consulate receives requests for emergency passports and airfare
back home from women who have escaped from brothels. (Venezuela's Consulate
in Madrid, "Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels,"
Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's Internet News, 18 November 1997)
Methods and Techniques of Traffickers
Women, aged 18-24, from Venezuela are being trafficked under false pretenses
for prostitution in highway massage parlors and similar fronts for brothels
in Spain. The trafficker places promising advertisements in the newspaper,
then arranges for the woman to be met at the airport; where her passport and
identity papers are taken away. (Venezuela's Consulate in Madrid, "Venezuelan
Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue,
Vheadline-Venezuela's Internet News, 18 November 1997)
Venzuelan women are in demand by traffickers from Spain because they look
similar to Spaniards from the Canary Islands, who don't need visas, and are
less likely to be detected by Spanish police. ("Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold
in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's
Internet News, 18 November 1997)
Trafficked Venezuelan women have to service a man every 20 minutes for US$
33-50/hour; money they never see. ("Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs
to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's
Internet News, 18 November 1997)
Official Response and Action
Organized crime rings, abundant in Spain, take advantage of legalized prostitution,
to traffic women into "puti-clubs" (a new name for brothels), which are increasingl
rapidly along the motorways. Police are powerless to take action unless drugs
or other crimes are involved. (Foreign Alien Brigade Chief Inspector Jose
Moreno, "Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels,"
Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's Internet News, 18 November
1997)
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| PROSTITUTION |
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20% of Spaniard men have purchased prostituted women at least once. (El Mundo,
"Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick
J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venzuela's Internet News, 18 November 1997)
Organized crime rings make US$ 666 per prostituted woman per day. (Foreign
Alien Brigade Chief Inspector Jose Moreno, "Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in
Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's
Internet News, 18 November 1997)
The Basque guerrilla group ETA has been linked to drug trafficking, prostitution
and money laundering to finance its operations. (Interior Ministry, "Spain
probes ETA links to drugs, prostitution," Reuters, 4 August 1997)
Case
A prostitution and pornography network was discovered after a couple had
"rented out" their 10 year old son to buyers for $200. As many as 85 children
were sexually abused in the network in Barcelona, Spain which was in operation
for 10 years. Those arrested include doctors, teachers, a local politician
and the former head of a child recreation centre. Thousands of pornographic
videos, picture and diskettes were seized during raids. At a news conference
in Barcelona, police displayed some of the 2,000 slides, 3,000 Internet images
and hundreds of videos and diskettes seized in the district of Ciutat Vella.
Pornography distributed by this network has reached France, Mexico and the
United States etc. More than 800 suspects were arrested. This network has
contacts with other foreign networks that exchange and sell pornography ("Spain
child-sex ring victimised 85," Reuters, 12 August 1997) (Police, "Spain paedophile
network has ties abroad," Reuters, 30 July 1997)
10 people, including a school headmaster, teachers, a doctor and owners of
some apartments used for child prostitution, were arrested in a prostitution
ring which abused at least 40 children, aged 5 to 14 in the Catalan district
in Spain. ("Child prostitution ring uncovered in Barcelona," Reuters,
29 July 1997)
Sixteen men were found guilty of abusing thirty boys, ages 14-17, in a child
prostitution ring that was broken-up in 1996. In the Seville homosexual nightclub,
the boys were given money, clothing and vacations for sex and offered as prizes
for the night to those who won bingo games. 27 others, including a former
juvenile court judge, a singer and a television presenter, were acquitted
("Spanish Celebrities Absolved," Associated Press, 19 March 1998) &
("Sixteen convicted in Spanish gay child abuse cases," Reuters, 19
March 1998)
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| PORNOGRAPHY |
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Cases
October 1996, Spanish police broke up a ring distributing child pornography
on the Internet. Two men who were the ringleaders were arrested in Barcelona.
(BBC, 8 Nov 1997)
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