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For Sale: Women and Children

by Nancy Forbord and Igor Davor Gaon

251 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1117; ISBN 1-4120-6216-0; US$23.00, C$26.19, EUR19.00, £13.50

The book describes how poverty, demand for paid sex, corruption, and organized crime have ensnared women and children of Southeast Europe in the horrendous web of human trafficking and what can be done to stop it.

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Human trafficking is now the third-biggest activity of organized crime in Europe, surpassed only by the trafficking of drugs and arms. For Sale: Women and Children - Trafficking and Forced Prostitution in Southeast Europe, details how the women and children of Southeast Europe are entrapped by the web of human trafficking and then bought and sold like chattel for enormous profits from prostitution and pornography. It is estimated that the buying and selling of human beings worldwide generates as much as seven billion US dollars in income per year. Of approximately 700,000 women and children around the world who become victims of some kind of human trafficking each year, as many as 200,000 of them pass through the Balkans. Southeast Europe has thus become a major center for trafficking in women and children for prostitution.

This book details the enormity of this phenomenon, how it happens, who is responsible, the role of organized crime, the plight of the victims, and what is being done and can be done to help the victims and prevent more women and children from ending up in the nightmare of trafficking. The book presents the victim's perspective with stories of how they were lured by traffickers, what they experienced on the streets and in brothels, and how they struggled to make their way out of sexual slavery only to find other difficulties as they returned to their home countries or tried to build new lives abroad.

For Sale: Women and Children - Trafficking and Forced Prostitution in Southeast Europe provides an opportunity to learn about the roots of trafficking in human beings; its complexity, how it affects the individual and region, and what can be done to eliminate it. International, state, local, and individual actions can be taken to prevent trafficking, to protect victims, and to effectively prosecute those involved. This book shows why it will take a firm commitment by all to end this modern day slavery.

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About the Authors

Igor Davor Gaon, Ph. D., was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which started in 1992, significantly changed the course of his life, and the one time Sarajevo University professor became a humanitarian worker. In 1997, Gaon became Mayor of the Municipality Center of Sarajevo. It was at this time that he first faced the problem of trafficking in human beings, especially women and girls, for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In 2000, Gaon became the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Council of Europe working on the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Council of Europe. During his five year tenure in this position, he focused on issues of human rights including trafficking in human beings. In 2005, Gaon was appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Georgia - South Caucuses.

Nancy Forbord, M.A., is an educator and trainer who has spent the last thirty years living and working in 18 countries around the world. From 1987 to 1995, Forbord worked as a foreign affairs specialist for the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, training U.S. diplomats and other government officials. Since 1995, Forbord has been an independent consultant, training diplomats and other foreign affairs officials of countries of Southeast Europe and the Pacific Rim, Ethiopia and Malaysia. Her interest in the issue of trafficking in human beings started in 2001 while she was training diplomats in southeast Europe. She is currently working with the Romanian Diplomatic Academy on a Fulbright Grant.

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