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The
White Slave Trade:
Trafficking in Women
The
international trafficking of women and children is a
growing phenomenon, as thousands of women and children
are trafficked by businessmen into dens around the
world.
Surprisingly,
many follow the same slave routes of the Middle Ages or
the Renaissance as the Slav women and children who were
sold by in the slave markets and purchased by buyers
from Italy and France.
The
first phase occurred during the Middle Ages when each
year thousands of women and children from East Prussia,
the Czech lands, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia
were sold in the slave markets of Italy and southern
France.
The
second phase occurred during the later Middle Ages and
the early Renaissance when slave women and children were
trafficked from Russia and the Ukraine and sold into
slavery in Italy and the Middle East. Others came
from Bosnia, Albania and the Caucasian Mountains: to end
their days as slaves in Italy and France. The
trade into Western Europe ceased when the Ottoman Empire
conquered Constantinople. The European countries
then turned their attention to West Africa as a source
of slaves.
The
modern slavers from Serbia, Albania, Bosnia, Turkey,
Russia and Eastern Europe model themselves on the
slavers of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance,
except they now dress in expensive Italian suits, carry
mobile phones and drive flashy automobiles.
The
material in this report is based on Missions to South
Asia, South-East Asia and various parts of Africa by the
Society's Secretary-General.
THE
SOCIETY IN ACTION
The Society has embarked upon a program for the
suppression of the international trafficking of women
and children in India.
THIS
IS THE SOCIETY IN ACTION
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Further
Information
For
more information, read the Society’s
publication
entitled
Second Report on Trafficking of Women and
Children ($11.00).
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