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Hela citatet lyderAv 800 räder av 55 polisdistrikt under sex månader hittade ingen som hade tvingat någon att sälja sex och 11 kvinnor som verkade ha sålt sex mot sin vilja. Indikerar detta att trafficking av den sorten vi talar om här är ett stort problem? Som tur var inte.
Men låt oss ta lite nyare exempel från vad "The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)" skriver 2017:
"However, too many of the attempts to measure prevalence over the past two decades have generated data that is meaningless or misleading... Huge inaccuracies creep in when ... everyone involved in sex work is counted, rather than focusing on those who are tricked or forced into prostitution to make money for others.
In 2001, NGOs in Cambodia estimated that there were ‘10,000—15,000’ children being exploited in this way in Cambodia’s capital.3 However, detailed research during the subsequent decade suggested the estimate was greatly exaggerated. This resulted in an estimate in 2003 that a total of about 2,000 women and children had been trafficked into Cambodia’s sex industry, which was reduced in 2008 to 1,000 (including 127 children)."
Så 10 000-15 000 barn var offer för trafficking visade sig vara 127 stycken (vilket såklart är åt helvete för många men 100 gånger bättre än vad som antyddes från början).
Vidare, här är ett kort informationsblad från 2015: "Research with sex workers also does not show much trafficking is happening. A study of 164 sex workers in Cape Town found that only two had ever been the victims of trafficking under the UN definition and these had generally happened in the past, with the sex workers in question having escaped the situation by themselves" Länk.
Kan du kanske elaborera vad din egen ståndpunkt är i frågan kring kriminalisering eller inte?
Men låt oss ta lite nyare exempel från vad "The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)" skriver 2017:
"However, too many of the attempts to measure prevalence over the past two decades have generated data that is meaningless or misleading... Huge inaccuracies creep in when ... everyone involved in sex work is counted, rather than focusing on those who are tricked or forced into prostitution to make money for others.
In 2001, NGOs in Cambodia estimated that there were ‘10,000—15,000’ children being exploited in this way in Cambodia’s capital.3 However, detailed research during the subsequent decade suggested the estimate was greatly exaggerated. This resulted in an estimate in 2003 that a total of about 2,000 women and children had been trafficked into Cambodia’s sex industry, which was reduced in 2008 to 1,000 (including 127 children)."
Så 10 000-15 000 barn var offer för trafficking visade sig vara 127 stycken (vilket såklart är åt helvete för många men 100 gånger bättre än vad som antyddes från början).
Vidare, här är ett kort informationsblad från 2015: "Research with sex workers also does not show much trafficking is happening. A study of 164 sex workers in Cape Town found that only two had ever been the victims of trafficking under the UN definition and these had generally happened in the past, with the sex workers in question having escaped the situation by themselves" Länk.
Kan du kanske elaborera vad din egen ståndpunkt är i frågan kring kriminalisering eller inte?
However, too many of the attempts to measure prevalence over the past two decades have generated data that is meaningless or misleading. A preoccupation with estimating the total number of victims in a whole country or region (or the world as a whole), rather than in a specific sector of the economy or affecting a specific social group, has meant that the predicament of groups of people who are known to have endured near-slavery for decades is being drowned out. This happens when the prevalence of all forms of exploitation (or all cases of ‘modern slavery’) is estimated at once. Huge inaccuracies creep in when cases of forced marriage are included as well (rather than trafficking for forced marriage), or everyone involved in sex work is counted, rather than focusing on those who are tricked or forced into prostitution to make money for others. The result has been that some patterns of long-term exploitation which it should be a priority to denounce are instead being neglected.
Och vem kan säga emot det? Självklart måste statistik vara korrekt. Och som redan påvisats är mycket statistik från 20 år sedan inte så noggrant utförd. Den otydliga Kambodjastatistiken är baserat på siffror från 1996, vilket går ihop med vad rapporten från 1997 som det här citatet syftar på säger:
Secondly, as the writers of the GAATW report note, when statistics are available, they usually refer to the number of migrant or domestic sex workers, rather than cases of 'trafficking' (Weijers and Lap-Chew 1997: 15)
https://walnet.org/csis/papers/doezema-loose.html
It appeared to be virtually impossible to find reliable statistics on the extent of trafficking
in women, forced labour and slavery-like practices in the three areas of our concern: marriage,
domestic labour and prostitution. Similarly, it appeared impossible to find figures
about the number of women who pressed charges or the number of court cases or convictions.
Several reasons explain this dearth of statistics. Firstly, there is a significant lack of systematic
research. Moreover, if research has been done, the issues investigated differ widely
due to the lack of a precise, consistent and unambiguous definition of the phenomena
at hand. Secondly, many of the practices described in this report are – at least in theory –
illegal, clandestine or criminal, and thus more or less hidden. Thirdly, the issue has been
widely neglected by governments and international organizations, because in many
countries prostitution is considered an illegal or criminal activity, while marriage and
domestic labour are considered private issues. Lastly, very little statistics, research or documentation
exist on informal sector activities, including domestic work and prostitution.
If figures are available, they generally concern the overall number of national or migrant
domestics, the number of national or migrant prostitutes or the number of bi-national
marriages, without any indication as to the occurrence and/or extent of trafficking and/or
forced labour and slavery-like practices.
It appeared even more difficult to obtain figures relating to the number of criminal cases
and the number of suspects prosecuted or convicted. Cases are hardly registered and, if
they are, it is often not clear to which offence they refer. As will be shown in chapter 7,
national laws differ widely. This means that in one country a case may be registered as
‘procuring’ or ‘living off the avails of prostitution’, whereas in another country similar
cases may be registered as ‘trafficking’.
Most of the forthcoming information was related to trafficking in women in the context
of prostitution, due to the fact that most of the organizations addressing trafficking tend
to do so exclusively in relation to prostitution. Prostitution appears to be the most accessible,
visible, emotive and therefore most researched field. Details, statistics and documentation
on the other areas of our concern are much more sparse and fragmentary. Contacts
and information on the situation of domestic workers are difficult to obtain since
they work in private homes. The same applies to trafficking for marriage and the issue of
servile marriages.
Research with sex workers also does not show much trafficking is happening. [b]A study of 164 sex workers in Cape Town found that only two had ever been the victims of trafficking under the UN definition
En studie utförd i Kapstaden med 164 personer intervjuade år 2006-2007 alltså.
Cape Town is a large city with a population of some 3.2 million, or 65 percent of the population of the Western Cape province (City of Cape Town 2006:2). The area to be covered by the research was determined using a street map of the city as our reference (Cape Town Street Guide 2005:iii). The geographic area of the research was determined by drawing a circle from central Cape Town with a 54km radius (the distance between the city centre and Mfuleni/Faure Road – the furthest point of SWEAT’s outreach work)
[…]
In total, our research identified eight women (of 164 canvassed) who could possibly be considered victims of trafficking. These were: the two Chinese women who seem to have been trafficked when they were still in China, the four East European women from the agency owned by the now-deceased brothel owner, the South African woman who was trapped and raped in a residential agency in Parow, and the woman who was taken to Witbank and escaped. Besides these eight cases of trafficking-like practices, we also encountered 21 allegations that could indicate trafficking: agents offering to procure women, women being forced to sell sex by others, women forced to sell sex to support their addiction to drugs. Not one of these were clear cases of trafficking if trafficking is defined as including all three elements as set out in the Palermo Protocol i.e. (1) deception, (2) force or inducement in recruitment, and (3) relocation for the purposes of exploitation.
[…]
As shown in Table 8, the total number of people working in the sex work industry at any point in time in Cape Town and surroundings is estimated to be around 1 209. This presents a picture of an industry that is not very large.
[…]
We are not suggesting that there are no victims of trafficking in Cape Town, nor that victims of trafficking might not be found elsewhere in South Africa. But we can conclude that trafficking is not a major feature of the sex work industry in Cape Town. What we did find is that exploitation and abuse of women working in the industry is not uncommon.
Uppskattat antal prostituerade i Kapstaden (siffror från Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT))
2006 1209
2013 5000-8000
Uppskattat antal prostituerade i Sydafrika 2013
121.000-167.000
Jag läser det du länkar och jag väljer att svara som jag gör för att jag reagerar på att informationen du kommer med inte är så aktuell och/eller inte backar upp saker som du påstår. Studier på ett fåtal prostituerade i Kapstaden -07 och Israel -02 är inte applicerbar på alla världsdelar, länder eller städer varken år 1997, 2007 eller 2017. En rapport som visar att statistik från 1997 och bakåt i tiden var missledande kan inte appliceras på den statistik som finns idag. Det är inte jämförbart
