Brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the president ial candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the vault follow the us elections on a. 300 year is the most powerful nations on earth group and strong on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children were forcibly transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south America Today slavery is illegal in every country on the planets but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is alive it is thriving and it is bigger than ever. You know good to park you know we just. Want to put a car. She has pushed cause. Lets focus. On bush of course. This is the story of a trade in human flesh a global trafficking industry the ruins the lives of millions of young women every day of every year. Around the world our best estimate is 27000000 slaves globally 6 or 8 percent as sex trafficking. But its also the story of 2 european cities more than a 1000 kilometers apart and at opposite ends of the world wide chain of sex slavery. Today the trail of trafficked women most often ends in the rich and liberal countries of western europe but it begins in the poor and underdeveloped former soviet bloc nations and one country in particular the republic of moldova. Now is the capital of moldova the poorest country in europe where many young moldovans are often forced to go abroad in order just to survive and is this desperation which has meant that so many young mold of and women are often jute into the sex trafficking industry. When children learned it will come out of a charity im still its not ideal engineer. But thats a lovely thing to look into my. Kids have time to chill and i want to fit a spot that this is solid enough that you for your movies doga a lawyer who has represented more than 700 victims of sex trafficking the story starts and ends with poverty ok to let them yes to chip. Or for that show there. Thought so was the later but also a lot of good as they could get jammed which is how long they decided she had him although bashir. Goes there in about its a full offices but. Outside of the reality of poverty a strong moldova is still a country largely reliant on subsistence farming. Were heading for the small southern town of tal shame. Were going to meet a young woman who escaped from International Sex slavery just a few weeks ago. Somebody some. Dont. Want. To hear. I say. You know to make 20 impotent in this post quote chip chip. You know. Who. Not to. Your not. Should. They push up or to push the most important because so many of these were not on 11 deuce just because more people. Want to have bought. 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Do it on a daily basis if from the most common ploy used by moldovan traffickers is to place a bogus job adverts in the local newspaper. The Strongest Team ahmed says each edition. This is a very interesting proposals for a younger woman work for ford then seeing in the dip ben. Is very suspicious because they give home to the girl the brady and the so. 2000. 00 there. To uncover how the scam works one of our Undercover Team responded to one of these outfits. I am one who will go. To far too. Much longer than i meant. I just. Got is the deal of the law. Of the lampton that ask sylvia. Is there more that i should go back one thread that the more the other thought that issue and the fact that you called the bottle as if it were the budget is if it all 4 of them want most the advertiser who calls herself olga quickly offers our undercover investigator a job interview. Bin but instead of meeting in an office during Business Hours she wants to meet on a Street Corner at 9 oclock at night. This would make the process vicious if you are to sick employment in moldova youll probably never meet with future employer or even agency that is interested in eating plant youll never meet on the street. Olga takes our undercover investigator to a noisy bar very quickly she begins her sales pitch and there was a break i think that a we didnt. Really mean to i. Think i did was. The defense was was i do want a. I did. Wasnt a were doing was and i and i are of enco has seen this many times and seen exactly what happens to those who fall for traffickers pitch. And the traffickers actually use follow the thread psychology and emotions from the very beginning until the very end they play with that. They use their own fears or hopes to change the person. Moldovan recruiters typically sell them 1st to local brussels where they are 1st forced into sex slavery then trafficked abroad. We sends another undercover journalist into the suv of these clubs to uncover the next stage in the trail. Was quickly introduced to sex traffickers. And. Then this man boasted he could provide up to 50 women. The 2 month period and said he was already working with brothel owners throughout europe. Some. Jurors. And. For. The next day undercover journalist was introduced to a 2nd trafficker in a park in the center of his you know. And he began if i can if i see. If. You. And then i will find. He was happy to explain how he would ship his cargo of sex slaves into the European Union fine neighboring countries. To get these out there you can. Maybe. Who can. Pass on my. Lease to pimps a small players in the sex trafficking industry. To track down one of the kingpins we have come to a shabby prison in the remote news so maybe over. A year he will come to hold a show going to the new movie building on the menu. For nearly 10 years alexander cavani known as shallow trafficked sex slaves out of moldova and across europe from his clubs in case you know. 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Name of your deal at the legionaries. Your visitor go who worked on case remembers those women differently. Or victim of america by declared simple to have a loyal youre just a cold the possibility that its a sin which. We can that given your soichi the vault into that all it should be a good ball. Again we cant let you get back of course a lot yet that pick up the ideal why would she do that why would she have done that if she wasnt involved in any of the things that you say your business was and also globally if you go around me im delia. Would get a bill sure. But dont listen because ultimately because any such a beautiful word should use the developers then as a group they knew what was going on and will do so it was a limited sort of. Little really. Because also too because i knew it down the but it was always a bit would. Show luke of ali was sentenced to 19 years in prison but his prosecution was a rare success in moldovas fights against sex trafficking. 3040 more i think it. Was that. The media. Mulled over has neither the resources nor the infrastructure to stop the trafficking of its women into sex slavery and to those who tried to protect them the responsibility for policing the trade lies elsewhere. If a problem only a small boy if a problem is then settled on this next thought that if anything the problem must watch it that. Its like theres a fitting it. In make. You. Like a cherished post want of going to silent not us and its enemy and if i mean a typical model and its out of. Less than a days drive away one country and one city above will positively celebrate the economics of demonic for postage in 2000 the dutch government to the radical step of legalizing prostitution ostensibly as a means to prevent women being trafficked and forced into the sex industry. Today there are more than 1200 prostitution businesses traval and. M saddam alone has 300. 00 plus in. All and believes that it has the best system of dealing with the worst excesses of sexual slavery and nowhere sums it up more than the city of amsterdam but look behind the windows and doors that proposition really hold up to scrutiny. Thats legislators have not lost their mind again prostitution policy but there is a vision that if you tried to compare old van gelder heads amsterdam polices and to Traffic School one of the positive advantages of our policy is that for instance prostitute has no fear for the police its a Legal Profession if you follow the rules the police wont bother you and i understand that we only see the tip of the iceberg but at least its a percentage of the branch which we cant control they rent but with only 7 detectives out of a city police force of 6000. 00 offices were just how much does harold van gelder actually see let alone control now. Yes is it possible to say the percentage of women in the sex industry here and im system who have been trafficked now its not possible its. Not even an estimation no no i dont i cant give you that because at least we dont even know how much how much prostitutes are working in amsterdam because we are not registration the prostitutes why should the police wretches straight them because we dont read straight all the butches for the bakers financing them. Yet just a few miles across the city hollands National Trafficking reporting organization has a very clear idea of the numbers of women forced into the countrys legalized prostitution industry. If you look at the figures from last year we had about a 1000 registered victims of Human Trafficking about 80 percent is section history and theres little doubt why so many tough team victims and sex slaves polish screams for its red light district theres a mob for young girls into prostitution and so i think traffickers make use of our system. Legalize prostitution to bring them in all of these to the past to get them into. Prostitution holland 660000000 euros every year 4000000 tourists flock to amsterdam most to steroids and often times the mines the prostitutes working in its me only when. I have a lot of money so here are my trial the women and Families Together if we have down here bush asked me and the victim in the traffic toshi that has worked for 16 years with the women has been working in the windows of amsterdams red light districts if you want to you even think and you want to believe there are a lot. The things what they are doing you know. The story behind them is so different that what you see each street she says is organized by nationality. There are certain streets where you have the south america transsexuals then theres another street where the majority are at hungary and then here you have the Spanish Speaking i guess. How have things changed in the sex industry in all of from say 1520 years ago to now. Because of the European Union whenever we open up in the 9 months for counterstrike romania bulgaria hungary i mean we see this whole change at the moment the majority of the woman i see yes we got the girls from albania i mean how can a girl from albania out of a village i dont know where from no way to know where to really know how to run to win the must be an organized crime gang this is the true face of hollands experiments in legalized prostitution and this is the face of the man who trafficked her here. When sure she worked as his 6 lead. Over to year period shut down by the leader of a turkish morgan ised crime gun trafficking them 130. 00 women mostly from Eastern Europe to hollands red light districts. Each woman was tied to with his gangs brian. Was forced to service 20 clients and then. They behaved in a very brutal way because we have seen cases of force to abortion issue cases of forced to use with the names of the pimps on the girls some girls were beaten up and too hard to bring up put in cold water and beaten up in a terrible way to die. Prosecutors the baron case was a warning that the dutch experiments in legalizing prostitution had worsened not solved the problem of International Sex slavery we thought in 2000 the more liberal for you to prostitution. Stand outs trafficking that proved to be wrong 60 to 70 percent of the women. In this case were being forced to work in legalized prostitution seems it is modern slavery jeff again human being is a kind of modern slavery. 5000 miles away in america the man who once led the global fight against slavery has long argued that holland is the cause of not the solution to International Sex trafficking. Think all its happened is the dutch government has become the super penpal for 4 years john miller was the u. S. State departments anti slavery worldwide ambassador today he sees the history of slavery repeating itself. Believe that theyre being very sophisticated in regulating the interesting thing is this is the exact same approach they took back in the 17th century the dutch used to boast about how they had the healthiest slave ships they had the best ventilation they had the best ration they had the best mattresses for the slaves they provided doctors. But slavery went on and all their talk about regulation was an excuse to avoid abolition every year the u. S. Governments publishes a report which judges every country in the world on its efforts to stamp out slavery the trafficking in persons or tip report ranks countries that do the most as tier one. The state department has always given tier one status to holland despite the vehement opposition of john miller i have visited the red light district ive seen the young men with the leather jackets standing outside those windows counting who goes in and making sure they get all the profits all i can say is i didnt think according to our law that they were to or why. Giving such favored status to rich western countries which fuel demand for sex slaves angers impoverished source countries like moldova least because it slowly ranking has put it in danger of economic sanctions from washington. And very often we see that economically strong countries with making good of both these are exactly the countries well our citizens exploited this in the countries that failed to assure protection and these other countries that imposed those double standards. The fate of the 2 convicted sex traffickers highlights those double standards. Alexander will spend the next 19 years locked in a mold even prison. Is back home in turkey and free the dutch government allowed him out of jail for one day you have squandered and never return. Until the rich western countries address the demand for prostitution rather than profit from it there will always be like a volley and butter and there will always be sex slaves behind these windows. In the next episode of slavery a 21st century evil entire families of slaves trapped in the brick kilns of pakistan and the slave master who keeps them there. Coveted beyond well. Taken without hesitation. And died for. Power defines our we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas we live here we make the rules on car investigates exposes and questions the use and abuse of power around the globe. On aljazeera. I was taken to prison just now that i was barely 21 yes or just me old mother in the father of my daughter i could not kill. When parents are imprisoned the government doesnt have any plan for the trigger lifted behind so these children need food they need shelter they are searching for love. My passion is to see that this shooting of prisoners are also given another chance to live like normally shouldnt because theyre not a party to that crimes committed by their parents when i finally get to that place to build a home for these children and they see them become somebody used to fall in the society fending for themselves. Which would give me satisfaction. A Global Pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. If you want to help save the world. Sneeze and hero. Small signs of hope in the fight against corona virus a vaccine trial in the u. K. Shows some promising results. 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