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"Madam President, trafficking may be an illegal market, but is nonetheless a market, having both a supply and a demand side. A country where there is significant demand plays an equally active part in trafficking as an origin country. Besides being a leftover of slavery in our times, trafficking constitutes continued defiance and infringement of the law and is linked to other criminal practices, such as money laundering, violence, smuggling, prostitution, tax evasion, fraud and forced labour.
Trafficking produces dangerous reversals within the order of values in our society, preserving old inequalities – women and children are seen as merchandise – and generating new ones. The money that traffickers earn undermines the belief in the value of labour and fair business.
It is necessary for all Member States urgently to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Trafficking and to apply the measures they have agreed, starting with combating the root cause of trafficking for prostitution, which is male demand for women and girls."@en1
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