Sambandet mellan människohandel och prostitution

Ett superspännande seminarium på kommande:

SEMINAR II: HELSINKI 1st of DECEMBER
2006-11-02

“Demand – the link between trafficking and prostitution”

When discussing prostitution it is often considered as a profession, or it is studied from the women’s point of view. More often there is a lively discussion about the prostitutes: are they victims or are they strong individuals making their own choices? Meanwhile the discussion about how to prevent trafficking in human beings for sexual purposes, which constitutes around 90 % of all human trafficking, has being conducted mostly as a matter of policing and justice. In the European Union today prostitution is being considered as a Member State issue while trafficking is an European level issue.

However, there is a link. The link is the market for sexual services – the buyers. As both prostitution and trafficking are about business and making money the market aspect and the demand for the services becomes a link between them. We have invited the key researchers as professors Sheila Jeffreys (Australia, Melbourne) and Liz Kelly (London, UK) to discuss and highlight scientifically these important issues.

Sincerely, Maria Carlshamre, MEP, Alde
together wih

Unioni, The League of Finnish Feminists

NYTKIS - The Coalition of Finnish Women’ Organisations

The Finnish Observatory on Violence Against Women

Place: At Balders Hall, (Balderin Sali) Aleksanterinkatu 12, Helsinki

Time: 1st of December, 2006, 08.30 – 18.00

PROGRAM

08.30 – 09.00 Coffee

09.00 – 09.15 Welcome speech by MEP Mrs Maria Carlshamre (Alde) – presentation of European parliament "TransCrime" (2005) – A study on National Legislation on Prostitution and the Trafficking in Women and Children.

09.15 – 10.15 Key speach by Ass. Professor Sheila Jeffreys from the Institute of Politics, University of Melbourne, Australia: "Trafficking and prostitution in Victoria state, Australia during a period of 20 years of liberalisation"

10.15 – 11.15 PhD Ms. Marjut Jyrkinen, School of Economics in Helsinki: "Economic and organisational linkages of global sex trade"

11.30 – 12.00 Press conference at the Parliament / Eduskunta

12.00 – 13.15 Lunch

13.15 – 14.15 Professor Liz Kelly, Roddick chair on Violence Against
Women, London Metropolitan University: "Sex buyers - what we know from research"

14.15 – 15.00 Country review – the current situation in three countries; Estonia, Sweden and Great BritainThe Swedish Experience – Officer Jonas Trolle from The Swedish Police presents latest facts about the Swedish trafficking situation
The Estonian experience – ENUT about the 2006 campaign"True men do not buy sex" and the recent study of pimps and prostitutes in Tallin and Oslo, by MSc Ms. Merli Klein, Tallin University and ENUT Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre
The UK Experience – Care for Europe officer Hannah McSween tell about the trafficking market situation in the UK.

15.45 – 16.00 Pause

15.45 – 17.45 Panel discussion with questions from the audience.
In the panel: Sheila Jeffreys , Liz Kelly, Professor Jeff Hearn (University of Linköping and Swedish School of Econmics, Helsinki), Professor Johanna Niemi-Kiesiläinen (Umeå University) Maria Carlshamre, Tanja Auvinen (NYTKIS) , Hannah McSween (Care for Europe) among others. Moderator: Fil Lic Johanna Parikka Altenstedt

The seminar is free of admission for the audience but a notice of attendance will be required by 29th of November 2006 to e-mail:

mcarlshamre-assistant(at)europarl.eu.int or to paasihteeri(at)naisunioni.fi .