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The Missing Factor - Clients of Trafficked Women in Israel's Sex Industry

Document number
1128
Date
2005
Title
The Missing Factor - Clients of Trafficked Women in Israel's Sex Industry
Author/publisher
Hotline for Migrant Workers & Legal Clinic for Combating Trafficking in Women, Hebrew University
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism
Summary
The public debate on trafficking in women in Israel in recent years has focused on the traffickers and their victims. It has ignored the 'client', even though there would be no trafficking in women without him. This report is an attempt to provide what is missing - to highlight the client in the public debate on the trafficking of women. It places the client in the operational chain of the industry, begins the complicated task of analyzing his character and motivations, and examines how the authorities relate to him. The report includes a study of the different legal options to deal with clients of trafficking victims, and the authors, Hanny Ben-Israel and Nomi Levenkron, conclude with recommendations to reduce the demand for purchased sex that turns the wheels of the human trafficking industry. The report is a collaborative effort of the "Hotline for Migrant Workers" and the "Legal Clinic for Combating Trafficking in Women" of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University. It is based, amongst others, on information gathered by volunteers who regularly visit the victims of trafficking in detention facilities and in a shelter for prosecution witnesses.
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