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The Heart of The Matter.(flesh trade in Moldova)(Brief Article)
It's not often that billboards urge you not to buy or sell something. But the Moldovan capital of Chisinau is an exception. Its streets are filled with admonitions: TU NU ESTI MARFA (YOU ARE NOT FOR SALE).
The dawn of market economics in Moldova has had an infamous side effect--a fire sale of its women. Desperate to escape the poverty and joblessness of home, they've taken flight en masse--many ending up in streets and brothels around the world. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva puts it bluntly: "Moldova is the main country of origin for the trafficking of women and children for the purpose of forced prostitution in Western Europe, Balkans and the Middle East." By some estimates, nearly two thirds of the prostitutes in southeast Europe come from Moldova, compared with about 15 percent from Romania, 9 percent from Ukraine and 1 percent from Russia. Europe's poorest country is also the most fertile hunting ground for its flesh trade.
Could that soon change? Possibly, if a massive internationally funded ad campaign succeeds in convincing Moldova's women to stay where they are, no matter how bad life may seem. The initiative, sponsored by the IOM and international funders, has pulled out all the stops, from airing TV spots to setting up telephone help lines to plastering kiosks and billboards with images of young women being groped for dollars. Graphic brochures detail the fate of a typical woman caught up by sex traffickers. It begins with an invitation abroad, then ...
- Flesh trade spirals in S 24-Parganas.
- Newspaper article from: Statesman (India) November 4, 2008 700+ words
...state. This is evident in the rampant flesh trade and women trafficking operations rising steadily in South 24-Parganas. The flesh trade, including women trafficking, is prevalent...including two lawyers involved in the flesh trade from a hotel in Diamond Harbour. Locals...
- Why is flesh trade thriving in P'kula?
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 18, 2004 700+ words
...area in Sector 12, it appears that the flesh trade business is raising its ugly head in...drive on November 11, 2002 to check flesh trade in the city. Close to 114 persons...four months for the police to bust the flesh trade racket. The last time that the police...
- Police action makes flesh trade more visible.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 1, 2002 700+ words
...Times) Byline: Sanjay Singh PATNA: Flesh trade is thriving in Patna. So think Patnaites...point is who are the girls involved in flesh trade and how do they land up in this business...months back exposed the grip of the flesh trade over the city. After her arrest in...
- Flesh trade raises AIDS cases.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire June 15, 2004 700+ words
...News Service SILIGURI, June 14. - The flesh trade and the spread of HIV/AIDS are interconnected...114 cases in 1998 to 637 in 2000. The flesh trade is the bridge linking the spread of...around 2,500 girls are engaged in the flesh trade. Apart from them, there are a substantial...
- Flesh trade racket busted in Joyrambati.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire June 27, 2005 700+ words
...BANKURA, June 26 - The police busted a flesh trade racket, operating in a commercial private...locals, alleging rampant practice of flesh trade in a lodge, had burst out in protest...to help smooth navigation of illegal flesh-trade rackets. Acting on a tip-off, a...
- Flesh trade racket busted.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire February 27, 2003 700+ words
...Times of India) LUCKNOW: Whenever a flesh trade racket is busted in the state capital...house on charges of being involved in flesh trade racket. The main person running the...were booked on charges of running a flesh trade racket. Police were tracing the background...
- Flesh trade in college hostels.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire September 27, 2005 700+ words
...Statesman News Service MALDA. Sept. 26. - Flesh trade rackets for high class clients have...bad reputation for many years now and flesh trade operators called the girls regularly...are customers at these hotels. The flesh trade is operated by a group. 'Mostly local...
- Booked under Goondas Act for indulging in flesh trade.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 9, 2002 700+ words
...Virudhunagar, involved in inter-State flesh trade. The Tallakulam Assistant Commissioner...owner, who forced three women into flesh trade after "illegally detaining'' them...Surya Prasad, said those involved in flesh trade would henceforth be booked under the...
- Crackdown on flesh trade.
- Newspaper article from: Statesman (India) March 23, 2006 700+ words
...by the police in 2004 for running a flesh trade racket and luring teenagers to compromise...spread panic among the players of the flesh trade racket, and hope that call girls will...desperately. The mushrooming growth of the flesh trade racket across the city is gradually...
- Bar girls join flesh trade.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire September 27, 2005 700+ words
...mujra', would fall back on the flesh trade, have indeed come true. What was...her in dance bars had taken to the flesh trade, often soliciting rich clients in Gujarat. Besides the blatant flesh trade, girls from Mumbai are frequenting...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Heart of The Matter.(flesh trade in Moldova)(Brief Article)