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childtrafficking.com
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May 11, 2005
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Dear Wenchi I hope more attention will be paid to the nexus of trafficking and modern forms of slavery. It seems that it is the demand for indebted servants that maintains the trafficking industry. The vast majority of children and adolescents enter the ıbusinessı in a situation of debt servitude. These victims are purchased from either local agents or directly from traffickers, who in turn have either abducted the victims by force or deception or have purchased them from family members, community members or employers. In the field of sex trafficking, and this is only an example from India, we know that the victim remains in the brothel under debt servitude until the brothel owner earns 3 to 5 times the purchase price from the girlsı fees from clients.
But we need also to explore the nexus between trafficking and other forms of modern slavery, e.g. bonded labour situation for children, in order to know more about the slave trade mechanism of all forms of trafficking, not only for sex trafficking.Regards Reinhard
Reinhard Fichtl, Country Director, Swiss Foundation of Terre des hommes
in Nepal
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