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Olympic sex traffickng myth

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Every time there is a sporting event, the liars start their false sex trafficking campaign.

Here is the one for London Olympics:

Video about the Olympic sex traffickng myth:

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/olympic-sex-trafficking-myth-0022278

Articles about the myth:

http://bebopper76.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/olympic-sex-trafficking-myth/

LONDON (TrustLaw) – A widespread belief that major sporting events fuel sex trafficking is unsubstantiated and has a negative impact on groups that campaigners purport to protect, undermining anti-trafficking objectives, a new study has said.

Activists opposed to sex work say large groups of men attending the Olympics, FIFA World Cup and U.S. Super Bowl competitions create a high demand for sex work causing large numbers of women to be trafficked, the report produced by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) said.

Yet there is no correlation between those beliefs and the actual number of trafficking cases found, the report titled “What’s the Cost of a Rumour?” said, citing such examples as the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the 2004 Olympics in Greece and several Super Bowl competitions.

“Despite increased scrutiny by the media, political figures and law enforcement, there is no evidence that large sporting events cause an increase in trafficking for prostitution,” Julie Ham, the author of the study, said at a panel discussionat the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

GAATW reviewed literature from United Nations (U.N.) agencies, government offices, academic researchers, anti-trafficking organisations, sex-workers rights organisations, non-governmental organisations and the media.

The claim sex work will increase is perpetuated in part because it is useful as a fundraising strategy, as a way to grab attention and be seen to “do something” about trafficking, and as a more socially acceptable guise for prostitution abolitionist agendas and anti-immigration agendas, the report said.

Anti-trafficking campaigns that are based on unproven claims can ultimately undermine anti-trafficking objectives, the report said.

Such claims can cause damage by resulting in increased criminal penalties and human rights violations against sex workers, by misrepresenting people and issues, through city “clean-up” efforts displacing sex workers and other marginalised groups, it said.

These anti-trafficking campaigns can also be damaging as controls on women’s movements, intended to stop trafficking, can actually lead to increased trafficking, the report added.

It is very interesting that even though CNN has reported that sex slavery has been reported false in sports events. They still have "CNN freedom project" which continues to report biased incorrect information about sex trafficking. This project is really not a news project at all. It is a special interest group that tells lies. This reporting does not try to find the facts. It only repeats incorrect statistics. There is someone at CNN that has a mission to mislead the public about this issue. I would like to see a full scale investigation report about why they are so concerned with misleading the public.

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They don't find victims. Because the victims don't exist.

By: Diane Taylor

guardian.co.uk,

An elite United Kingdom, Great Briton Metropolitan police squad has come under fire in a highly critical report commissioned by the London mayor, Boris Johnson, for its investigations into sex trafficking in the runup to the Olympics.

The report accuses officers of a "heavy handed" approach to brothel raids and of failing to find victims of trafficking.

The report, Silence On Violence, from London assembly member Andrew Boff, is being considered by Johnson. It criticises the police performance and estimates that they have a success rate of less than 1% in finding trafficking victims during brothel raids.

Police had predicted an increase in sex trafficking in the runup to the Olympics, but they have admitted that they have failed to find any evidence of a rise in the five Olympics host boroughs. That is despite a cash injection of £500,000 from the Government Office for London to specifically target the crime.

Both local police officers and the Met's specialist SCD9 unit, which focuses on human exploitation and organised crime, carry out brothel raids. Both are condemned in the report for failing to adopt an intelligence-based approach to trafficking and for looking in the wrong place to find victims.

"The information I have gathered … demonstrates that police have been proactively raiding sex establishments without complaint nor significant intelligence that exploitation is taking place," writes Boff in the report.

He adds that the attitude of some sections of the Metropolitan police to policing sex trafficking "appeared to be based on little or no evidence".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/19/met-police-sex-trafficking-investigations-criticised

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Everything you have said was discussed or presented last week in public at the IAC. It was uplifting to see the wide variety of groups working together to change myth and bring real and significant change. I know this was work on your part posting this and I wanted to say that I'm grateful for your work. I don't know who you are but over the months I've appreciated your posts.

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