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Trafficking in human beings - The plight of modern-day slaves

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Subido el 29 de junio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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In Moldova, a former soviet state now the poorest country in Europe, people -- especially women and girls -- are attracted by the prospect of a well-paid job abroad as a domestic servant, waitress or baby-sitter. Traffickers recruit victims through fake advertisements, mail-order bride catalogues and casual acquaintances. Upon arrival at their destination, victims' documents are usually taken away and they end up exploited, forced to pay off alleged debts under the threat of violence. Many are then coerced into bonded labour, often including sexual exploitation. Three victims, one Romanian, one Ukrainian and one Moldovan, rescued by the police, recall their plight. Trafficking in human beings is not confined to the sex industry. Romanian children are trafficked to European cities such as Vienna where they are taught how to beg and steal. Whether it's children or adults, deep poverty in countries like Moldova and certain parts of Romania drives people into the hands of organised criminals.

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This is Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, a former Soviet state now so poor that almost 00:00:00
a third of its population has emigrated in search of work and a better life. 00:00:08
I would go to Europe, this woman shouted, in Europe there's work. 00:00:12
What can we do, this man asked. 00:00:20
We need money for shoes. 00:00:22
How can we live without money? 00:00:25
Newspapers carry adverts offering prospects for jobs in Europe. 00:00:31
Young women are especially welcome. 00:00:35
A meeting is arranged, often it's a woman who does the hiring. 00:00:37
Promises of work in a bar in Italy, as a waitress in France. 00:00:41
Many are naive enough to believe it. 00:00:45
The girls have unwittingly taken their first steps into the hands of the human traffickers. 00:00:49
Some estimate this business is as big as the drugs trade. 00:00:56
It's grown up since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. 00:00:59
Mafia-type networks earn billions of euros in Europe every year, as they buy and sell 00:01:02
their human goods, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe. 00:01:07
The girls who are in the hands of such human traffickers actually expect a miserable life. 00:01:11
They are sold several times, just for sale, and when they arrive here in Antwerp in the 00:01:18
showcases, they have to serve up to 30, 40 customers a day. 00:01:24
Many girls have never even heard of human trafficking before. 00:01:28
Anna thought she was being brought to Belgium from Moldova to be a waitress. 00:01:31
Then she learnt she was to be a prostitute. 00:01:35
She took me there, on the road. 00:01:37
On the ground? 00:01:42
On the ground. 00:01:43
Not in the window, but on the road, where the girls work. 00:01:44
I was crying over there, at the girls, because I didn't want to work like that. 00:01:51
I felt bad, because there, in Moldova, when I stayed there, I was... 00:01:58
I had a very hard life, but with such a thing, they didn't occupy me. 00:02:06
And when I arrived in Croatia, of course, it was very painful for me. 00:02:11
Some women are sold to buyers in the Balkan region before ever reaching Europe. 00:02:18
This is the Mozart Club in southern Serbia. 00:02:25
But what happened here was not music. 00:02:28
A police raid found five girls from Romania and Ukraine, 00:02:34
kept prisoner here, forced into prostitution. 00:02:38
Their pay? Two euros a day for food and a packet of cigarettes. 00:02:42
We found the girls again in Belgrade, 00:02:50
now being protected by the International Organization for Migration, 00:02:52
which helps hundreds of victims of trafficking every year. 00:02:56
One-year-old Katerina says she was tricked into leaving her hometown in Romania 00:03:00
for a life of terror. 00:03:04
Natasha is 28 and already a widow with two small children. 00:03:07
She believes she was leaving Ukraine for work in a cafe. 00:03:11
When I joined the club, one of the managers told me to throw my stuff away 00:03:36
and stay in my boots and shoes. 00:03:46
I understood everything then. 00:03:48
You know, what they sold you for... 00:03:50
I paid for you 1,700 euros. 00:03:55
And when you get rid of that money, 00:04:00
you'll get rid of half and half. 00:04:04
Half and half means playing with mistakes and having sex. 00:04:09
In countries such as Romania, it's not just women who are exploited. 00:04:18
It's children too. 00:04:22
Some for the sex industry. 00:04:24
Others are taken by organized networks to European cities such as Vienna, 00:04:27
where they're taught how to beg and steal. 00:04:32
This Vienna city council crisis center 00:04:37
is where the police bring children if they're caught pickpocketing. 00:04:40
They can't be prosecuted. 00:04:44
Some are as young as eight years old. 00:04:46
Nearly 200 children from Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia 00:04:50
have come to this center in the past year. 00:04:53
Their photos all kept on file. 00:04:56
This sort of exploitation of children for crime is growing across Europe. 00:05:27
Sometimes it's the parents themselves desperate to earn money 00:05:31
who hand their children over to the traffickers. 00:05:35
Aid organizations which help to get the youngsters home 00:05:38
say the parents are as much victims as their children. 00:05:41
This is a very poor country. 00:05:56
Some people see this as their last chance to do something like this. 00:06:01
It's important for us to address the source of the problem. 00:06:07
We have to try to ensure a safe return for the children 00:06:12
and a permanent reintegration. 00:06:16
Whether it's children or adults, 00:06:22
deep poverty drives people into the hands of organized criminals. 00:06:24
The European Union is making the fight against human slavery a top priority 00:06:30
because the traffickers too often manage to stay one step ahead of the police. 00:06:35
It's a constant game of cat and mouse 00:06:44
in terms of they develop one new modus operandi 00:06:47
and the law enforcement agencies identify it and shut that down. 00:06:50
And it's almost like an ongoing chess. 00:06:53
The only tragedy is that the chess pieces are vulnerable human beings. 00:06:55
For those lucky enough to have escaped, there's just one thought. 00:07:00
To go home. 00:07:04
Thank you. 00:07:20
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