"You could be hurt too!" was the name of the March 2014 information campaign, in which we wanted to draw attention to the fact that everyone is vulnerable and due to the coincidence of different circumstances can end up in the “business” nails of human trafficking.
The campaign is based on the first study in Latvia, which tries to answer the questions:
What conditions affect women into prostitution?
How are girls and women recruited for prostitution in Latvia and sexual or other exploitation outside the country?
A set of economic, social and psychological conditions leads to prostitution as a last resort. But recruiters are increasingly using interesting methods to engage young women in prostitution. For example, by placing job advertisements with great “career development” opportunities abroad, without the need to know foreign languages or present educational documents.
Read the opinions of the persons involved in prostitution, the assessment of specialists, the analysis of the objectification of cultivated women in the media environment and also the opinion on the fates of Latvian and Estonian women in Great Britain.
The research is carried out within the framework of the project "Security Compass: Effective Solutions for Preventing Trafficking in Human Beings" of the European Commissions CRIME PREVENTION AND FIGHTING program.
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