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EXPLoita Tion 12 11 In the Middle of Europe: Fighting the Sexual � Exploitation of Women and Children in the Czech-German Border Region A Project of the Evangelical Church of the Czech Brethren (ECCB) and the Evangelical �Church in Germany (EKD) � � � In the face of the misery that women and children are daily enduring in the Czech-German border region, joint action is urgently necessary. The suffering of the people affected cries for quick and emphatic action. Such action manifests the love of God for his creatures. That love reaches especially to those who are wounded in body and soul. It is therefore imperative in view of the violence towards women, girls and boys and their sexual exploitation in the border region to further and strengthen the engagement of the churches in this area. The exploited � �women and children in the border regions stand daily in the struggle for survival. They have scarcely any hopes that their dreams of a better life could be realised. They need help now – and they need help characterised by being sustained. Our churches are challenged, together with the governments and social initiatives, to do everything to make this help possible – and better today than tomorrow! The fellowship of our churches is realised in the horizon of the justice of the Kingdom of God. We live in the Ecumene of our common vision of a more just world. Such hopes also inspire the world-wide fellowship of Christians. In this sense the Special Commission regards the work it has behind it as a contribution to justice. It calls the churches to come in at this particular place with help, in- �� – IN THE MIDDLE OF EUROPE – 127
EXPLoita Tion formation and counsel for a culture of mutuality and co-humanity as well as for loving relations between women and men having equal rights in our societies. Between 700,000 and 2,000,000 people are traded each year throughout the world. The profits from human traffic across the world are estimated at about € 12 billion annually. A large part of this commerce in human trading serves the purpose of sexual exploitation of women and children in the sex industry. 1 The great rise in prostitution and human traffic in the Czech Republic took place directly following the fall of the Iron Curtain and was marked by the special migration circumstances of that period at the beginning of the 1990s. Above all, women from Eastern Europe became sought-after wares on the markets of the western countries, among them many Czechs. In the Czech Republic about 30,000 people are active in the sex industry. Of these admittedly some 70% are foreigners. With the eastern expansion of the European Union the Czech Republic also became a main destination for women who were traded here from countries beyond the eastern frontier of the European Union. The Czech police have observed since this period a remarkable rise in the number of young women from Eastern European countries as well as from Asia who are forced to the Czech Republic into prostitution and often are traded on further from there through the whole of Europe. And it is men from western countries, above all from Germany and Austria, who use this market as so-called sex tourists or as customers in their homeland. Children and young women from socially disadvantaged families and groups on the edge of Czech society slip under the social pressure of their miserable living conditions into the undertow of the sex market dominating the Czech region bordering on Germany and Austria. In particular, trade in commercial � sex �in clubs, �bars and brothels � appears � to not a few women from these weak social strata as the ultimate escape from impoverished living conditions that offer no perspective. In the border regions this business offers work and apparently lucrative conditions. This is met half-way by a shift in public attitudes to sexual morality and prostitution. In these areas erotic clubs and the huge market in sex services have become everyday normality. 1 “It is not easy to express statistically the exact scope of this problem, and therefore the estimates of the number of victims vary significantly. Various international studies indicate that 700,000 – 2,000,000 persons are traded annually around the world, while 300,000 – 500,000 persons are traded annually within Europe. It is estimated that the global annual proceeds from human trafficking are € 8,500 – 12,000 billion.” Ministry of the Interior, National Strategy of the Fight against Trafficking in Human Beings, 2005-2007, Prague 2005, 7 (http://aplikace.mvcr.cz/archiv2008/dokument/2005/ strate-gie.pdf last access 12.5.2009; cf. also http://aplikace.mvcr.cz/archiv2008/dokument/ 2006/komercni06.pdf last access 12.5.2009) with reference among others to International Organisation for Migration, the US Department of State, the Europol, loc.cit., 7, n. 2. �� 128 – IN THE MIDDLE OF EUROPE –
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PContents REAChing Preface There is
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PREFA ce There is No Unjust Communi
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