SOUTH AFRICA: As Thomas Carroll and Shamelia Clark bring human trafficking and sex slavery into the spotlight take a moment to consider where all the sex workers for big sporting events come from.

‘Salvation Army international social justice commission director Christine MacMillan said the World Cup and other major sporting events were a major draw-card for traffickers.

“There are large volumes of people coming and they are men. They are away from home and alcohol is flowing and they want sex,” she said. It was a “very lucrative” time for traffickers.’ Excert from IOL

Meanwhile the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill to cover a large loop hole in South African law that fails to protect victims of human trafficking has still NOT BEEN PASSED. The Bill was put forward June 2009 marked URGENT.

So lads next time your at the shag parlour spare a thought for that ‘foreign bird’ - could well be she was trafficked …

References and Resources

Christine MacMillan Quote
Concerned Young People of South Africa
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
All Voices - US$9.5 Billion Industry
Rense - 100,000’s Of East European
Women Sold For Sex
PBS - Sex Slaves Interview with Victor Malarek
The Human Trafficking Project

Fifa ‘abandons’ child trafficking campaign

Tags: 2010, Football, human trafficking, prostitutes, prostitution, sex slavery, sex slaves, sex workers, slavery, Soccer, South Africa, World Cup

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