Sunday, May 25, 2008

Accomplices (Women trafficking from Nigeria to Europe)

German Foreign Policy Newsletter 2008/05/22 - Accomplices
BERLIN/TRIPOLI/BENIN CITY (Own report) - With Germany participating,
the EU's Frontex border security agency has renewed their pursuit of
refugees and migrants off the coast of Libya. As reported by news
agencies, it has launched its "Operation Nautilus III," in which
European ships patrol also within Libyan territorial waters. Refugees
and migrants picked up during the operation will be handed over to
Tripoli. Libyan repressive forces have been accused of serious
violations of refugees' and migrants' human rights. With this new
Frontex operation, Germany is again taking part in measures that will
force refugees and migrants, seeking passage to Europe, to take even
more desperate routes, thereby compounding the widespread deaths on
the EU's outer borders. Numerous women are also among these victims.
The Germano-European border policy does not offer a possibility for
legal entry and thereby forces a growing number of women into the
hands of sexual slave traders, supplying the European prostitution
market with women coerced into prostitution. In her discussion with
german-foreign-policy.com, the publicist, Corinna Milborn, who
investigated the sale of Nigerian women inside the EU, stated that the
German state, through its border policy, should be considered as a de
facto "accomplice" to sexual slavery.
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