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Human Trafficking: The Labour and Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children
Human Trafficking: The Labour and Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children
Monday, 11 July 2016: 14:15-15:45
Location: Hörsaal 33 (Main Building)
RC32 Women in Society (host committee) Language: English
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, trafficking in persons is now the third most profitable business for organized crime. Several reasons or causes have been advanced for the incidence and upsurge of human trafficking in Africa and Europe. These include widespread and increasing level of poverty, unemployment and under-employment (especially of women), greed, family and communal dislocation, economic transition, globalization, rural impoverishment, accelerated commercialization of sex, economic decline and uncertainties, opportunism, false and fake dreams, and dramatically deteriorating living standards.
Studies have shown that the major receivers of trafficked women and children from Africa are European countries. This trend shows that human trafficking is a global demand-driven business with a huge market for cheap labor and commercial sex. It transcends all geographical, religious, socio-economic and political boundaries. It involves exploiting vulnerable people like needy women, children and young men with offers or promises of employment and better life abroad.
The session invites papers that examine the responses of the various countries affected and engaged in human trafficking, that are targeted in ending the abuse of women and children. We are interested in understanding the dynamics and factors from both the sending and receiving continents that impact or impinge on the efforts to combat human trafficking.
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