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Journal of law and social sciences of the Law Faculty of University J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek = Zeitschrift für Rechts-und Sozialwissenschaften der Fakultät für Rehtswissenschaften der Universität J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek = Journal des sciences juridiq, Vol. 30 No. 2, 2014.

Conference paper

HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNDER THE VEIL OF SEX TOURISM IN THAILAND – REACTIONS OF THE EU

Zrinka Gugić ; Doktorska škola društveno-humanističkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Osijeku

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Abstract

The statistics shows that considering the total amount of people trafficked in the world; approximately 79% of them are women and children.1 That fact has prompted the European Union to get involved in to solving this issue, especially in the countries of the Southeast Asia. Sexual exploitation of women and children in Southeast Asia, which is also closely related to sex tourism, represents a big issue in today’s world. By connecting the definition of sex tourism and trafficking in persons, this paper wants to show the bond between sex tourism, which can be, and in most cases is a part of wide branch of human trafficking, but also the reactions of the European Union to that. The paper is also trying to make a distinction between free willing prostitution in those countries and forced prostitution of women and children by sexual exploitation and also which factors had the crucial role in making those countries a potential market for sex tourism and on which bases we can make assumptions about involvement of trafficking in all of that. The paper will also emphasize the problem within law regulations which strictly ban prostitution, human trafficking and any type of sexual harassment, and still women and children become victims of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Methods that were used for this paper are mainly based on collecting and researching written materials on related matters, field survey and documentary study. Trafficking for prostitution is becoming a major concern of human rights organizations and feminist activists as the size of the problem and its grievous effects on the lives of women and children are becoming better known and the number of trafficked persons is growing rapidly every year.

Keywords

sexual exploitation; trafficking; Southeast Asia; sex tourism; EU

Hrčak ID:

132107

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/132107

Publication date:

30.8.2014.

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