Association Iroko Onlus – Against Trafficking and exploitation of women and children

“The IOM believes approximately 80% of the 11,009 Nigerian women registered at landing points in Sicily in 2016 were trafficked, and will go on to live a life of [...] prostitution in Italy and other countries in Europe.”
The Guardian
“In the absence of alternatives, slaves have also been know to consent to slavery, African-Americans to apartheid, citizens to totalitarianism. The fundamental question isn’t that of the consent of the exploited individuals to being exploited, but rather of the values a society wants to defend.”
CAP International
“We all want to find ways for the women to be safe. But we know that the women and the men, the boys and the girls can never be safe in prostitution. We can only reduce the harm. That’s not good enough. We don’t talk about reducing the harm for sexually abused children or women who are raped. We talk about ending it.”
Julie Bindel
“Prostitution and sex trafficking are intrinsically linked, you cannot separate them. Prostitution is the place where sex trafficking happens and it’s the reason why sex trafficking happens. If there was no prostitution, if there was no market for young girls like myself from vulnerable, disadvantaged backgrounds, then we wouldn’t have traffickers out kidnapping and abusing young women”
Rachel Moran
“Being in prostitution, affected persons experience the deepest abysses of our society: an immeasurable and unimaginable extent of violence, humiliation, lies, and inhumanity.”
(Sandra Norak, a survivor of prostitution in Germany, & Ingeborg Kraus - Dignity, October 2018)
“If prostitution is so empowering, then why are we not seeing large numbers of empowered women with good homes, good health, and not having to use substances in an attempt to erase the pain and memories of their experiences?”
Fiona Broadfoot

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