Trafficking and prostitution - PowerPoint Presentation

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Trafficking and prostitution

Someone else's concern?Slide2

Trafficking and prostitution

Trafficking

‘The

transference of a person from one place to another; with the sole purpose

to exploit them

. Either by coercion or force

.’

According to U.N, approximately 2.5 million people are being trafficked around the world at any given time, 80% of them women and children. 98% of these trafficked into sexual exploitation Slide3

The realities of Women and children being traffickedSlide4

How do people become victims?

There

are four basic ways in which traffickers recruit a person into sex work

:

Complete coercion through abduction or kidnapping [relatively rare];

Deception by promises of legitimate employment

;

Deception through half truths, such as their employment will be in

entertainment

, dancing or stripping

;

Although being aware they are going to work in prostitution, they are not

made aware

of the extent to which they will be indebted, intimidated, exploited

and controlled

(Ford 2001, p.31).Slide5

How do people become victims?Slide6

Trafficking and prostitution

Prostitution:

‘A person who engages in Sexual intercourse for compensation,

ie

material goods or money’

40 Million prostitutes world wide

3 Million Prostitutes In India (Ministry for women and child development)

1.2 million Child prostitutes in India (UNICEF)

In Delhi's most established red light district GB road, it is estimated that there is 4500 prostitutes working daily.Slide7

200

women & girls enter the sex trade in India

every day…

…of these, 160 do so under coercion

（

The Nowhere Children” by

Neha

Dixit,

Tehelka

Magazine

, 1 November 2008

）Slide8

Why trafficking, why prostitution?

Because there is high demand and where there is demand there is money to be made.

32 billion US dollars a year (International Labour Organisation)

It has been estimated that one in ten men world wide will visit a prostitute in their life timeSlide9

The issues of women associated with trafficking and prostitution

HIV/AIDS

Rape and horrific violence and torture

Death – Suicide or murder

Drug/alcohol dependency

Loss of Identity

Abolished Self esteem

No hope Slide10

Reality of ProstitutionSlide11

The government and Trafficking

The Government of India prohibits some forms of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation through the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act (ITPA)

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation incorporated anti-trafficking training into its standard curriculum

Children rescued from trafficking may housed in government shelters and are entitled to 20,000 rupees ($450)Slide12

The Government and prostitution

Section 8 of the ITPA permits the arrest of women in prostitution.

Lack of formal training for police

Some victims may be arrested and punished for acts committed as a result of being trafficked.Slide13

A change for the better?

The government of India has proposed a new law, under which

(

i

) soliciting will no longer be a crime,

(ii) there will be no eviction of sex workers,

(iii) clients of sex workers could land in jail and face penalty of

upto

Rs 50,000,

(iv) living off earnings of sex workers is illegal,

(v) anybody who rents place to sex workers will be arrested and will be penalised for Rs 10,000. Slide14

Corruption..Slide15

NGOs

Rescue operations

School for children born into brothels

Health and education centres for womenProvide work, and opportunities to lean a trade.Raising awareness

Supporting women and children through rehabilitation

Working with border controlsSlide16

The road to freedom