Migrant Women Trapped in Sex Trade
In Paris,
France, French police dismantled a Nigerian human trafficking ring that forced
young migrant women into prostitution. The arrest brought to light what the authorities call
the “modern-day slaves” there and throughout other areas of Europe. The young
women were brought into France through Italy and back mailed into prostitution and
sex brothels as a means for them to “pay off” their debt of being smuggled into
the country. According to the International Labor Organization, these women are
a part of the estimated 1.5 million victims of human trafficking in the
European Union, where the global number of human trafficking victims is close to
21 million. This as began to be a major problem, and many organizations are
pushing public officials to look into these matters and take action against
these men who are smuggling them in and taking advantage of them against their
will. “Prostitution remains the a key
area where women’s rights are pervasively violated,” said EML’s policy officer
and project coordinator of European Women’s Lobby Pierrette Pape. In France
however, prostitution itself is not illegal, but pimping and brothel ownership
are and some 70% of the country’s estimated 20,000 prostitutes are foreigners
mainly from sub-Saharan Africa as well as Eastern and Central Europe.
The women go
to these countries to work and instead they are placed in to this dehumanizing
jobs away from their families, with shattered hopes and dreams of having that
better life they so desperately wanted. Once found they could be sent back to
their countries which makes all the degrading things they did done in vain. On
top of that, they are not getting proper healthcare from sexually transmitted
diseases and I doubt these men are protecting themselves. They are isolated
from everything that they know in a new country and even if they find work in a
household, they are underpaid and can be targets for abuse in that setting as
well. They are pretty much controlled by these pimps and are probably beaten
and tormented physically, mentally, and emotionally. Economically they are
suffering because they have nothing and are really like depending on those
monsters to provide them with everything. Work permits could be expensive, so
even if they do escape how will they work, paid for food, clothes, daily needs,
etc? And what about birth control and things of that nature. They come into
these countries where they do not know their way around and so what are they to
do? This is happening all around the world and is happening right here in
Greensboro as well. There should be more things set up to monitor things like
this and if they do get caught a system should be set in place to help these
women gain work permits and attempt to gain what they came here for in the
first place, freedom and a better life!!!! (I am aware there are places around
that help women do this, kudos to them). It’s interesting to see if there is a
number of men/young men being trafficked, cause normally is always young women.
Just a thought.
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