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Supply & Demand

The demand side of trafficking, which includes, for example, sweatshop or brothel owners, farmers, clients of sex workers, and people who hire domestic servants, is often neglected by trafficking prevention programs. Activities tend to focus only on the supply side with a view to curtailing it, protecting victims, and prosecuting the traffickers. While some of these individuals are fully aware of the mistreatment that occurs, many are ignorant to the severe abuse and exploitation involved in trafficking and are not aware that the majority of trafficking victims do not choose that lifestyle, but were forced or coerced into it.

Recent Updates [view all]

• Demand for Virgins Fueling Sex Trade in Cambodia
• Managing Migration in Southeast Asia
• US Legislators Introduce Sex Trafficking Bill to Congress1

Publications [view all]

• Lost Daughters: Underage Women in the Commercial Sex Trade
  Inside Indonesia, Jan.-March 2006.
• Preventing Trafficking in Women and Children by Addressing the Normative Dimensions of Demand
  UNIFEM Regional Programme, East and Southeast Asia Office, 2006..
• Demand Side of Human Trafficking in Asia: Empirical Findings
  International Labour Organization (ILO).
• Primer on the Male Demand for Prostitution
  Joe-Cannon, I., Editor, and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW).
• The Mekong Challenge. Human Trafficking: Redefining Demand. Destination Factors in the Trafficking of Children and Young Women in the Mekong Sub-region
  Elaine Pearson.
• Good Practices for Targeting the Demand for Prostitution and Trafficking
  Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW).
• Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia
  In May 2003, ICMC and ACILS jointly published Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia.
• Surveys on the Behaviors and Attitudes of Tourists and Foreign Clients with Sex Abused Children and Young Women, Kingdom of Cambodia 2001-2002
  AIDéTOUS Communications Paper.
• The Movement of Women: Migration, Trafficking, and Prostitution in the Context of Nepal's Armed Conflict
  Save the Children USA, Nepal, 2005.
• Rethinking Masculinity. Educating Young Men to Reduce the Demand Side of Trafficking
  Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Asia Pacific (CATW-AP).

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