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Trafficked women in EU countries most commonly end up in sexual exploitation. And Member States' different legal processes and legislation are not helping to combat this evil

(Originally published by Voxeurop.eu)

The phenomenon of people trafficking refers to various forms of exploitation, such as work in forced occupations like begging, slavery or practices similar to slavery - servitude, forced criminal activities, or organ extraction. But it is something that particularly impacts women, above all through their sexual exploitation. In fact, women and girls make up as much as 80 percent of the victims of human trafficking.

According to data published by the European Commission in May 2016, more than 15,800 people were victims of human trafficking in the European Union between 2013 and 2014, of which 76 percent were women and 21 percent were minors. 67 percent of human trafficking cases were for sexual exploitation, with 21 percent for labour exploitation. The data show the majority of identified victims and traffickers in the EU are themselves European citizens.

The EU has an internal strategy for eradicating human trafficking that was developed between 2012 and 2016. It sets out 40 different anti-trafficking measures and establishes an EU coordinator to monitor their development.

On the EU Anti-Trafficking Day on 18 October, the European Parliament released a statement describing the scale of this global phenomenon. This document states that more than 20 million people around the world are victims of trafficking. It claims trafficking is "a very lucrative criminal activity" within the EU. The EU countries most affected are Romania, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Hungary and Poland.

Human trafficking also spans questions of security and judicial cooperation, notes Mirentxu Jordana Santiago, professor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In a study on the matter she claims the protection of trafficking victims in the EU "still suffers from a number of weaknesses". This is because "the multilateral dimension of human trafficking makes the task of national authorities more difficult. Prosecutions are often limited and partial, making it harder to punish these crimes," she argues.

In response to the problem, "the EU is counting on an integrated approach for investigations, which requires Member States to explore possibilities for judicial penal cooperation. This is an area where Eurojust , the EU's body for judicial penal cooperation, will have a relevent role to play," the researcher concludes.

Sexual exploitation is the fate of a majority of trafficked women. According to a report requested by the European Parliament itself, one in seven prostitutes in Europe is a victim of human trafficking. This figure is based on the most conservative estimates, which reach up to 60 or 70 percent in some countries - indicating a majority of the prostitutes there are immigrants. "Studies confirm a direct relation between liberalising the prostitution market and a rise in human trafficking related to sexual exploitation.

This liberalisation does not make it easier to combat trafficking through the legal system," the study claims. It adds that "Member States apply different prostitution regimes that can be broadly aligned with abolitionist or regulationist approaches. However, it is questionable whether this categorisation is actually useful for evaluating success in the fight against human trafficking in the sex trade".

It is clear the question of sexual exploitation and prostitution is approached very differently in Member States, from the regulatory regime practiced in Germany or the Netherlands, which according to the report "increase the flow of trafficked women for sexual exploitation", to abolitionist models like in Sweden, which is the only country to criminalise prostitutes' clients and which "seems to have effectively reduced demand and dissuaded traffickers". It is a broad range that does not help the implementation of common policies to EU Member States, and as such it hinders their effectiveness.

This is the line taken by expert Miriam Benterrak, a technical advisor in the Government Delegation for Gender Violence in Spain, who argues that "from the point of view of European politicians, trafficking needs to be addressed, but there is no commonly agreed definition of sexual exploitation". Benterrak adds "the European Parliament, beyond its legislative activities, has decided to promote other incentives to generate a shift in opinion or some impact on the debate where there is currently no international consensus. Countries have very different regulations despite the fact prostitution is the key industry prompting trafficking for sexual exploitation".

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Between 10-15% of the minors and juveniles In Bulgaria fall victims to trafficking in human beings. We believe that children are extremely vulnerable, we work actively with schools. We have an academy for volunteers trying to protect them from this crime. Many children drop out of school first, they are the most difficult to reach, Kamelia Dimitrova frpm the Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings told BNT morning show on 18 th of October. She was a guest in the studio together with Her Excellency Emma Hopkins, the Ambassador of Great Britain.

We consider child trafficking as one of the biggest crimes and we are trying to invest as much as possible in preventing it. Softwares have been developed to help us. Internet can be a bait, but also can protect victims. There are different methods in identifying victims and their exploiters, the British Ambasador said.

The Secretary of the National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Kamelia Dimitrova, said that Sofia has already started a specialized service, similar to a crisis centre, which aims at full recovery of the child and strengthening the relationship with the parent. According to her, the Internet is becoming more and more commonly used as a means to lure victims.

Kamelia Dimitrova says that Internet is used not only to lure victims through false advertisements for very good job offers, but also as a mechanism for controlling the victims, tracing their exploitation and blackmailing the victims through threats that their photos will be sent to relatives and parents. The Internet is also used to facilitate transport and the cash flows generated by the trafficking, she added.

The British Ambassador Emma Hopkins said the group of victims might include both uneducated and educated people. She added a report was published in the UK with examples of hundreds of countries where citizens fall victims.

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At the National Commission for Combating Trafficking of People in 2017, 107 signals were received about suffered people, Plovdiv's journalist Kamelia Dimitrova told the commission.

According to her, the victims are in the sphere of sexual and labor exploitation, there are signals of trafficking for the purpose of begging.

350 were the victims identified in pre-trial proceedings for trafficking in human beings in recent years. The most severe cases of human trafficking remain as a form of exploitation combined with forms of severe physical violence.

Kamelia Dimitrova explained that the NCCTP already has five resident type of services, two newly opened last year in Sofia, Varna and Burgas, three more such services in which NGO specialists and partners support the rehabilitation of the victims, their mental, health and social condition .

There is a tendency for women to be more vulnerable to trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. There are also cases of men suffering from this form of trafficking.

In December, the NCCTP voted a National Anti-Trafficking Program, which outlines the measures taken by the state and NGOs to prevent, build up the capacity of the institutions to protect the victims and improve their coordination and stimulate the commitment of each institution to counteract this type of crime.

A National Workshop for Counteracting Trafficking of Human Beings and Victims' Protection is being held in Plovdiv from today until February 1, BTA announced.

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At the National Commission for Combating Trafficking of People in 2017, 107 signals were received about suffered people, Plovdiv's journalist Kamelia Dimitrova told the commission. According to her, the victims are in the sphere of sexual and labor exploitation, there are signals of trafficking for the purpose of begging.

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HORRIFIC images of a mutilated human trafficking victim lay bare the brutal abuse inflicted on women forced into the sex trade.

Huge purple bruises, long scars and deep burns cover the body of the victim with an aid worker revealing she was beaten within an inch of her life after a failed escape bid.

The pictures have been released by Austrian national Norbert Ceipek in a bid to raise awareness of the horrific consequences of the trade in people.

Ceipek moved to Bulgaria after retiring and opened a centre to help victims of human trafficking.

He said: "A young woman, 20, got to know a young man who promises her all his love and takes her to the Netherlands.

"When she arrives, she realises that she has to walk the streets with another Bulgarian and two Nigerians.

"She does not want to but by beating and other compulsive measures she complies and prostitutes herself eight months."

Pictures of the victim show head trauma, a long scar on her stomach, and severely swollen lips, nose and eyes from multiple beatings.

Ceipek said: "During a visit back to their home country both Bulgarians tried to escape from their location, but unfortunately she was caught by him [the pimp] and brought back.

"As the second woman managed to flee, he became so angry that he began to beat the young woman so much and also struck her with objects that she almost died."

The victim was eventually thrown out of a car in front of a hospital.

Her human trafficker captor was later arrested.

The Bulgarian hospital gave the victim primary care but she was discharged after five weeks as she did not have health insurance and was unable to pay.

In those months she was forced to work as a prostitute in The Hague.

The young woman ended up in Ceipek's shelter and is now trying to fundraise the costs needed for additional treatment.

Ceipek said: "She desperately needs more surgeries on her face and mouth, skin transplants and much more. There is no body part which has not been affected."

With a yearly budget €30,000 (£26,450)the NGO does not have the funds available to cover these costs.

Ceipek hopes that by sharing the horrific images of the mutilated woman, people will be more aware of the issue and more will be done to help the victims.
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The issue of trafficking in human beings has come to the attention of policy makers in Bulgaria in the last decade. Since then, Bulgarian governments have supported the development of a specialised body of legislation and the establishment of comprehensive policy schemes to deal with the challenges of protection, assistance and reintegration of victims of trafficking, including children. In terms of its substantive criminal and child protection law, Bulgaria largely complies with the standards of the CoE Convention and the Palermo Protocol.

The Republic of Bulgaria continues to be to a large extent a country of origin and to a lesser extent a country of transit or destination for human trafficking. In Bulgaria, women and children are most often induced into prostitution in the towns on the Black Sea coast and in the border regions.

Countries of destination for Bulgarian trafficking victims are the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, Cyprus and Macedonia.

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The issue of trafficking in human beings has come to the attention of policy makers in Bulgaria in the last decade. Since then, Bulgarian governments have supported the development of a specialised body of legislation and the establishment of comprehensive policy schemes to deal with the challenges of protection, assistance and reintegration of victims of trafficking, including children.

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Article #3 - " Human Trafficking Ring Taken Down By Spanish and Bulgarian Authorities"

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A large-scale joint investigation, led by the Spanish National Police in cooperation with the Bulgarian police, and supported by Europol and Eurojust, has resulted in the dismantlement of an international organised crime group involved in trafficking young Bulgarian women to Spain for the purpose of sexual exploitation. As a result of the investigation, 34 individuals were arrested (26 in Spain and 8 in Bulgaria) and 13 victims of sexual exploitation safeguarded.

A joint investigation by the Spanish National Police and the Bulgarian Police, with the support of Europol and Eurojust, has led to the dismantlement of a criminal network of Bulgarian origin involved in human trafficking. The network aimed at taking control of the prostitution industry in the Malaga cities of Torremolinos and Marbella (Spain).

In a coordinated law enforcement action, 34 suspects were arrested (26 in Spain and 8 in Bulgaria) and 13 victims of sexual exploitation safeguarded. In total, 36 searches were carried out (21 in Málaga, Spain, and 15 in Bulgaria) that resulted in the seizure of EUR 50 000 in cash, 12 luxury watches and a significant amount of drugs. Judicial authorities also ordered the seizure of 6 properties and 18 vehicles, some of them luxury ones, as well as the freezing of numerous bank accounts.

The investigation began in 2014, when the Spanish authorities detected the existence of a human trafficking group which operated in Spain and had international links with Bulgaria. Given the dimension of the criminal network under investigation and its international character, a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed by Spain and Bulgaria, supported by Europol and Eurojust, was set up. The excellent police and judicial cooperation led to the identification of new victims, the roles of the different members of the organisation and their modi operandi.

The criminal gang aimed at gaining total control over the prostitution industry in the regions of Torremolinos and Marbella in Southern Spain. They recruited vulnerable women in Bulgaria by luring them with the promise of a better life, either by abusing their precarious financial situation or by resorting to other known recruitment methods like the "lover boy". Once they arrived to Málaga (Spain), the victims were taken to different apartments in the city of Torremolinos and forced to practice prostitution in the Marbella area of Puerto Banús. The gang used violence and threats against the victims and their families, as methods of coercion. The victims were also forced to steal their clients' cash, credit cards or other valuable objects, sometimes by spiking the clients' drinks.

Europol and Eurojust have provided support throughout the entire investigation. Europol facilitated information exchange and organised an operational meeting to plan and prepare the executive actions. On the action day, Europol provided on the spot support by deploying two human trafficking experts to Spain, equipped with a mobile office. This allowed for real-time intelligence analysis and cross-checks against Europol's databases.

By combining the sexual exploitation with forced criminality, the criminal group obtained huge profits. Clients were charged with the sexual services provided by the victims and at the same time being robbed of whatever cash and valuable objects they had with them. The objects were channelled to local pawnshops linked to the group and responsible for converting them into cash which was used either to purchase high value cars or transported back to Bulgaria and reinvested in other assets or activities.

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SOFIA (Reuters) - The trafficking of Bulgarian women as sex slaves brings in about 1.8 billion euros ($2.6 billion) a year for the gangs behind it, making it the country's most profitable criminal activity, a report said on Wednesday.

The European Union newcomer has become one of the main exporters of sex workers to Western Europe along with Russia, Ukraine and Romania, the independent non-government Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) said in a report.

Bulgaria ranked first according to the number of victims who sought help in the Netherlands in 2000-2003 and was number three in Germany in 2001-2005, the report said, citing European data.

Analysts from the group blamed poverty, corruption, family problems, a failing justice system and Bulgaria's geographic location - along numerous illegal trade routes in the Black Sea region - for fuelling the sex industry.

The Bulgarian government recently abandoned a plan to legalize prostitution, a step taken by other EU countries such as the Netherlands, saying it would only make the problem worse.

"It would be a grave mistake," Interior Minister Roumen Petkov said during a presentation of the CSD report.

"It would mean that abusing human flesh is lawful and would create conditions to legalize huge amounts of money to be re-invested in criminal activities."

He said Bulgaria should take a tougher stance against human trafficking and step up measures to fight the problem.

There are no official estimates of the number of Bulgarian women working as sex slaves abroad but some groups believe about 10,000 to 12,000 fall victim to trafficking every year.

The CSD report said profits from prostitution at home stood at between 110 and 170 million levs ($83-129 million).

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Article #1 - " I Was Kidnapped By a Bulgarian Human Trafficking Ring"

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Of the estimated 30 million people trapped in slavery around the world, only about 140,000 of them come from Europe. While that might make some Europeans feel a little better about the continent they're dwelling on (bankrupt and increasingly irrelevant), it shouldn't. Because a) that makes them more of a narcissist than will.i.am in a hall of mirrors, and b) that slavery statistic is constantly rising.

And it's been rising even faster since 2007, when Romania and Bulgaria entered the EU, opening more borders and creating opportunities for more nasty people to exploit anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path. Also, thankfully-for anyone twisted enough to root for Europe to up its human trafficking game-Bulgaria currently boasts the EU's highest annual amount of trafficking victims. So that should help push the numbers up a little more.

In November 2012, 43-year-old Bulgarian Jemal Borovinov and 14 others were taken from their home country and soon found themselves trapped in a human trafficking ring operating in southern Italy. Fortunately, Jemal and his wife managed to escape their captors a few months into their bout of enforced slavery and make it back to Bulgaria. I met Jemal in a petrol station in his hometown of Razgrad to find out exactly what happened to him.

VICE: Hi Jemal. So how did you get yourself into this situation in the first place?
Jemal Borovinov: I was misled. My sister and her husband were working in Germany, picking strawberries and raspberries. A woman called my sister and told her they were recruiting people to work in Italy, paying €30 a day to pick tangerines and oranges. She said you just had to pay €150 euros for travel and another €100 commission to the person who recruits you. My sister and my wife persuaded my brother-in-law and me to take the job. There is a saying: "Never listen to a woman." I listened to mine once and look at what happened.

I'm not sure that's a saying. When did you leave Bulgaria?
The four of us left on November 1, 2012 from the Central Bus Station in Razgrad. Ten others, who were all from different parts of the country, joined us in Sofia. We waited for an hour and half, and then two buses turned up. The driver took our money. We stopped at a gas station just before getting on the ferry to Greece, and a few guys came along, chatted to the bus driver, and gave him a stack of fake IDs, passports, and driving licenses. He gave them the money and they disappeared.

Did they give you fake IDs?
The driver asked if we had IDs on us and offered to give us fake ones if we didn't. He gave me the stack of fake documents, and I saw they didn't have an official stamp on them. I asked him what they were for, and he said, "Don't worry, they are for some guys that Interpol is looking for." I said to him, "I hope our job isn't as fake as the documents."

When did you start getting suspicious?
I realized we were trapped when we got on the ferry and they asked for more money. I started arguing with my wife and my sister. Where were these fraudsters taking us? I was sure they were going to screw us up, and there was no way we could escape by this point.

The only picture that Jemal managed to take of the house they were kept in.

Where did you get off the ferry?
In Brindisi, which is in the Apulia region of southern Italy. Then they took us to Nova Siri in the Basilicata region, drove us to the mountains and shoved us all in one house. There was nothing around us except for apricot trees. We were isolated and forgotten from God. There was no food, no water-the place was horrific. The only place we could get water from was four kilometers away. Thankfully, we had some food and tins with us. That's how we survived.

Were there any other houses?
There was another house a kilometer away where they also tortured people. They would drug the women and convince them to become prostitutes. They made them stand on the motorway near bars that were run by Bulgarian and Italian gangsters. We men were forced to deal drugs. I wanted to kill each and every one of our captors because the situation was a matter of freedom or death. I found out that the Italian men who owned the bars also owned the houses but under Bulgarian names. Apparently this had been going on for 12 years.

Who was actually holding you captive?
Well, the houses were constantly guarded by Bulgarians, who were the cousins of the main guys. The main guys were Turkish gypsies, but they said that they were Pomaks [a Slavic Muslim population native to areas of Bulgaria] and used fake Muslim names. I'm a Pomak myself, and when I spoke to them I noticed their accents, which were completely off, so that gave them away.

What did they make you do other than sell drugs?
I had to drive a bus that they'd stolen. They changed the Italian plates to Bulgarian ones. A bunch of them would come around every night at around 2 AM, usually high, and beat us up before ordering us to steal gas from Italian gas stations. We never picked any strawberries. They also took our phones, money, and IDs away, but luckily I had a second phone that we hid in our dirty socks.

One of the minibuses that Jemal managed to photograph with his hidden phone.

Were you able to communicate with any of the other people being held captive?
Not really, no. Although there was one old sod with us who told us that he'd owed them money, so they went to his house and kidnapped him, his son, and his daughter-in-law. He told me that there had been a lot more people there before, but that they'd managed to escape.

How did you eventually escape?
It was difficult. We managed to get in touch with Ramadan Atalay-a minister from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms party-with our hidden phone. I had also called Todor Dimitrov from Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) [the party in power at the time], who I know personally, and he told me, "Don't bother me with stupid shit like that, I'm at elections in America."

That's not very helpful. So did someone come and pick you up?
No, five of us snuck out during the night when the armed guards were dozing off. The old guy helped us do that and I'm so thankful to him. Without him we wouldn't have succeeded. So we ran through the fields for about four kilometers until we reached the road, but no one wanted to pick us up, and it turned out that they had caught and tortured my brother-in-law, who told them everything, so they blocked my phone, and I couldn't call anyone. My wife and I were crying like babies. That's when I thought, This is the end; we are going to die. And then my wife remembered that she had €20 hidden in her bra, so we managed to get out of there.

The road leading to the house where Jemal was held captive.

Are you going after them now you're free?
Yeah, I'm suing them. I get threats over the phone and they try to stop me, but they can't scare me after all I've been through. I also sent an official complaint against them to the main police body that deals with organized crime. I hope some of the other survivors will join us. Police warned me not to speak to any journalists, but I spoke to a lawyer, an ex-head of police, and he told me, "Don't listen to them - it's better to get your story heard, otherwise a lot of other poor people will also get trapped." I wouldn't wish the torture I went through on my worst enemy.

How are the rest of your family?
My wife is in a hospital in Varna. She got diabetes because of all the stress she went through and now needs to be under constant surveillance. My daughter is in second grade and had an anxiety attack when she found out we were trapped. The kid spent ten days in a hospital, and she still stutters to this day. My sister and my brother-in-law are still being held by the fraudsters in Italy.

So what now?
I am never, ever leaving Bulgaria again. I'm going to continue my garlic business and I'm thinking of hiring fields and harvesting strawberries. I'm going to pay my rent for the next five years so I know I'm safe. I know I'll be in the shit for a while, but I'll earn my money back.

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I Went the Pattaya for the Sex; I stayed for the Steriods

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