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    Russia Today
    March 1 2009



    European women orchestrating sex slavery

    01 March, 2009, 13:34

    In Europe, most slaves nowadays are bought and sold for one reason '
    sex, so it's no surprise that most victims are women. What is
    surprising is that sex slavery is an industry dominated by women.


    One divorced mother from Armenia reportedly testified that out of
    desperation she agreed to take a job in Dubai. She thought she was
    going to be working in a store, but when she got to Dubai she found
    out she would to be a prostitute.

    `I visited several clients of different nationalities in the Al-Harmud
    Hotel and had sex with them. I was in an impossible situation¦" she
    said. Her passport had been taken, she couldn't speak the language,
    and she didn't have any money.

    Without further details, most people would likely assume that a man
    was responsible for trapping this woman in such a demeaning
    situation. However, she was recounting details in her testimony
    against another Armenian woman, Marine Poghosyan, who was convicted
    and sentenced for only 18 months.

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    Women exploiting women
    This case from Armenia is not an isolated event. Several agencies and
    organizations have details of women's involvement in sex
    trafficking. The problem is that there wasn't a comprehensive method
    to share and analyze that information' that is until a report that was
    recently released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
    (UNODC).

    The reports shows that worldwide 60% of those convicted for human
    trafficking are women. In some countries in Europe the figures are
    higher.

    Human trafficking is the politically correct term for modern slavery
    and the most common form of human trafficking is sex exploitation,
    which appears to be the ladies crime of choice in parts of Europe.

    In many European countries men outnumber women in the sex slave
    industry, but the UNODC report shows that women are convicted more for
    human trafficking than for all other crimes. For example, in France,
    women only represented 10% of the convictions for all other crimes,
    but women represented 32% of the convictions over human
    trafficking. Moving into East Europe, the differences become more
    drastic.


    Sex Slavery nothing new
    The UNODC report didn't unveil the problem of sex slavery in
    Europe. Sex slavery is a problem that European authorities are well
    aware of in their societies.

    `It's very common practice to persuade a woman that she can work in
    Germany or the UK or France and she can earn 100 euros a day¦ and
    the reality is that she will earn that money and probably much
    more. However, she won't see any of it,' said Hamish McCulloch, the
    former Assistant Director for Trafficking in Human Beings at Interpol.

    Countries in Western, Southern and Northern Europe, such as the UK,
    are recognized as sex slave destinations. Central and East Europe are
    recognized as source countries and some have noted the visibly
    diminishing numbers of young women.

    What the UNODC report did was to unveil a trend that put a new face on
    the perpetrators.

    `Crime, organized crime in particular, is typically a male activity,'
    the report said. `It might be assumed that human trafficking, where
    violence and threats are keys to the business, would likewise be
    overwhelmingly male dominated.' Unfortunately, in regards to human
    trafficking, this is not the case.

    Michelle Smith for RT

    http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-03-01 /European_women_orchestrating_sex_slavery.html
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