TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN IN EUROPE

European governments are doing far too little to protect the tens of thousands of women who are unwittingly sold into sexual slavery every year and forced to work in brothels from Amsterdam to London.

Not nearly enough was being done by governments to clamp down on the traffickers or to identify and help the victims of this modern day slave trade.

The EC says 120,000 women and children are trafficked into western Europe every year, many of whom are bought and sold into forced prostitution, beaten, imprisoned, raped and sometimes killed.

Most of them come from eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union, and the CIA estimates that traffickers can earn $250,000 a woman. The most popular countries for finding them are Russia, Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic. Three quarters of the women are under 25 and many are teenagers.

Traffickers use marriage and employment agencies and other front companies to smuggle the women into the EU after advertising in the local press for dancers, waitresses and club hostesses.

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