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DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION

DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION

Demand as root cause for trafficking for sexual exploitation 

 

The real source of traf­fick­ing and exploita­tion is demand. This have too often remained invis­i­ble and out­side the scope of State’s anti-traf­fick­ing efforts. Pover­ty and inequal­i­ty, among oth­er, have often been con­sid­ered as the cause of human traf­fick­ing: in real­i­ty, those are vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties, which can be used by traf­fick­ers to eas­i­ly ensnare vic­tims, but they are not the cause of traf­fick­ing.

Sex­u­al exploita­tion is a form of human traf­fick­ing, and involves in par­tic­u­lar forced pros­ti­tu­tion, forced pornog­ra­phy and sex­u­al exploita­tion of chil­dren. The demand that fuels traf­fick­ing for forced sex­u­al exploita­tion is the demand for paid sex, which is often met by traf­fick­ing vic­tims. Men typ­i­cal­ly do not seek to buy sex from traf­fick­ing vic­tims, but rather seek to buy sex, and traf­fick­ing vic­tims are what they are pro­vid­ed. As traf­fick­ing sur­vivor Rachel Moran once said, “They don’t know and they don’t care.” This demand is thus over­whelm­ing­ly cre­at­ed by men and whose price is paid by women and girls. The demand of those men is face­less, name­less and con­sent-less. Men who pay for sex from traf­fick­ing vic­tims not only are, and cre­ate the demand, they also form part of the traf­fick­ing chain, and are inflic­tors of harm upon vic­tims through engag­ing in acts akin to rape.

Because buy­ers and traf­fick­ers can act rel­a­tive­ly free of con­se­quence, their like­li­hood of engag­ing in the mar­ket increas­es. Grow­ing trans­ac­tions is what we actu­al­ly see in coun­tries where reg­u­la­tion and decrim­i­nal­iza­tion of approach­es to pros­ti­tu­tion apply. The only solu­tion for impact­ing the dimen­sions of the traf­fick­ing of women for sex­u­al exploita­tion is to reduce the num­ber of buy­ers buy­ing. In 1999, Swe­den imple­ment­ed the so-called Nordic Mod­el (now the Equal­i­ty Mod­el), in order to com­bat the demand for pros­ti­tu­tion and sex­u­al exploitation.

 

Four pillars constitute the Nordic Model:

  1. Pros­ti­tu­tion is vio­lence against women
  2. The buy­ing of sex­u­al ser­vices is criminalized
  3. Pro­vide pro­tec­tion and real help for women to exit prostitution
  4. Ear­ly aware­ness-rais­ing in schools on the harms of prostitution

 

The Nordic Mod­el thus crim­i­nal­izes demand by tar­get­ing the buy­ers of sex­u­al ser­vices. As San­dra Norak said in our webi­nar on demand for sex­u­al exploita­tion (13 April 2021): “To fight traf­fick­ing and exploita­tion, we need to reduce demand because demand is a breed­ing ground for traf­fick­ing. Men will not stop buy­ing the bod­ies of women, as long as it is not for­bid­den.”

 

To learn more about this issue, we invite you to click on the links below:

  • to watch the videos of the webinars

  • or the inter­ven­tions of each speaker

  • and to down­load in the video descrip­tions, the tran­scripts and addi­tion­al doc­u­ments made avail­able to researchers.

 

 

DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING – SEX TRAFFICKING & PROSTITUTION — 13 April 2021

 

DEMAND FOR HT: WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE AS CONSUMERS OF FORCED LABOR AND SEXUAL SLAVERY. HOW CAN WE END THIS CYCLE? — 14 June 2022

 

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International Prosecution Of Human Trafficking — Best Practices (ON-DEMAND VIDEO WEBINAR)

Demand As Root Cause For Human Trafficking – Sex Trafficking & Prostitution

Human Trafficking — Interview with Prof. Michel Veuthey, Order of Malta — 44th UN Human Right Council 2020

POPE’S PAYER INTENTION FOR FEBRUARY 2020: Hear the cries of migrants victims of human trafficking

FRANCE — BLOG DU COLLECTIF “CONTRE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS”

Church on the frontlines in fight against human trafficking

Holy See — PUBLICATION OF PASTORAL ORIENTATIONS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING 2019

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