ISS Seminar, Cape Town: Human Trafficking and Sex Work During the 2010 World Cup: Reason for Concern?
Date: 2010-05-24
Venue: ISS Conference Room
2nd Floor, The Armoury
Buchanan Square
160 Sir Lowry Road
Woodstock
South Africa
RSVP: Ms Bongeka Mdaniso
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Presented by the Crime and Justice Programme and the Organised Crime and Money Laundering Programme
Matters relating to human trafficking and prostitution have grabbed headlines in South Africa and abroad in the run up to the World Cup football tournament. This was also the case in 2006 before the tournament in Germany. The media and official commentators have repeated claims that up to 40 000 foreign sex workers will converge on South Africa between June and July and have implied that many of these will have been trafficked. Reports have also warned that human trafficking is already rife in South Africa and is likely to increase to meet the demand for commercial sex by football fans. But what do we really know about the sex work industry in South Africa and the extent of human trafficking? What can we learn from the experience of Germany in 2006, and how concerned should we be? Join us to discuss these and other issues.
SPEAKERS:
Chandré Gould, Senior researcher, Institute for Security Studies: Human Trafficking in South Africa: What do we know and what should we be concerned about?
Marlise Richter, Associate researcher, Forced Migrations Studies Programme, Wits university: Investigating the demand and supply of adult entertainment and paid sex during the 2010 Soccer World Cup – ideas for informing the debate.
Please note that discussions occur under ISS Rules. Participants
are free to use the
information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of
the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
This seminar is funded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation
