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EXPLoita Tion travel to the countries of northern and western Europe as au pairs, students or employees they need to be informed and warned so as to be less likely to fall for the false promises of human traffickers. Good initial approaches are known here, particularly from the work of the Association for International Youth Work which has many kinds of contact in the central and eastern European countries through the mediation of au pair positions and supports various prevention projects there. This work is also supported by the programmes “Hope for Eastern Europe” or “Churches Help Churches” in the Diaconal Work of the ECG. For this too financial means are urgently needed as well as good-will support. 2. Mediation of Perspectives. More demanding and further reaching than mere information on dangers is the development of an individual and collective future perspective for young people in their home countries. Young women travel away because they have no chance of training and working in their homeland. Because of the desolate economic situation in many Eastern European countries the human traders will still find hosts of disappointed young women who will take any risk to escape from poverty. Here impressive examples and promising initiatives are known of work with young people at home with the aim of developing a future perspective in their own countries. The existing project work needs to be built up more systematically and financially supported in this aspect as well. 3. Sensitizing of men. As it is well known that it is the “clients” who create the market in all its forms, preventive work in the sense of information must be directed not only at the women and girls in their home countries but also at men as customers in the various countries. Around a million men – thus the familiar if controversial estimate – are believed to take advantage of the “services” of prostitutes every day in the German Federal Republic. How many of these women may be supplying �these �services �– in the Czech �Republic � too as well as in Germany – under duress and unworthy conditions? This human traffic can only be effectively checked if men as potential customers of prostitution can successfully be appealed to and persuaded to change their behaviour. That men can be addressed is shown by experiences in Italy, where in the meantime significantly more victims of human traffic are identified through tips and reports from customers than through police investigation. In 2006 on the occasion of the FIFA World Championships, the Protestant Women’s Work in Germany, the Men’s Work of the EKD and the Diaconal Work of the EKD began in a country-wide publicity programme to speak to customers and to make the problem of forced prostitution known through effective publicity. In this connection it is important not to condemn men even in their role as clients for the purchase of sexual services, but to challenge them to stand up for humanity and freedom from violence in the sex business. �� – IN THE MIDDLE OF EUROPE – 143
We recommend EXPLoita Tion The organisation and support of preventive programmes in the countries of origin of the victims of human traffic, both in short term respects (work on information for girls) as also in long-term (development of perspectives for the future, educational projects etc.). A comprehensive campaign with the aim of appealing to customers of the sex business, drawing their attention to the phenomenon of modern slavery and human trade (especially in women and children) – and so reducing the market demand. Advocacy and Networks Adequate and appropriate help and support for children and women suffering sexual exploitation, as also effective combating of human traffic, demand a crossborder network of persons and institutions. This includes, alongside police and the law, the various institutions and offers of the assistance infrastructure, but also existing areas of work in the church and diaconal organisations which come into contact with the thematic. These include work with adults and young people, with convicts, in the field of Aids prevention, on human rights and much more. The church itself already disposes of a wide network which it can use in the sense of political lobbying. Its energy can be brought to bear on the social and political environment when it is a matter of putting through demands on the combating of human traffic and assistance. 14 The Working Group on Prostitution and Human Rights in the Diaconal Work of the EKD is similarly a good example of interdisciplinary cooperation spanning different fields. Good and proven initiatives for information and networking come from Caritas in Europe and Eurodiaconia � � together � with the �Churches’ � Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The project “CAT” anchored there since 1999 attempts to improve the situation of affected women and girls through the crossborder cooperation of the counselling services. The Special Commission pleads to continue this work long-term and if possible to intensify it. By contrast it has not yet been possible to institutionalise specific cooperation in the German-Czech cross-border region. The Special Commission sees here a good chance for the churches to work together on the corresponding problems as Europe grows closer together. 14 An overview of the most important demands is given by the paper “Frauenhandel bekämpfen – Opfer schützen und unterstützen” by the Protestant Women’s Work in Germany, October 2005. �� 144 – IN THE MIDDLE OF EUROPE –
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