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Well, stumbling on the web I found this article on the uglier side of the race this week, the Montreal GP in Canada. Though not normally talked about, forced sex trade and human trafficking is a big part of major international sporting events, such as the World Cup, Olympics and F1 Gp’s. Such events up the demands for young female prostitutes. The same is true for the Canadian Grand Prix as partying race fans roar into the city on their annual pilgrimage. But many of the sex workers who are used to fill the commercial void are unwilling participants, human rights activists point out.

Sharon DiFruscia, who’s part of a Montreal coalition against human trafficking, said most of the women are exploited as sex slaves.

“Not only in Montreal, but for large sporting events, it’s a well-known fact that many women are brought in to the city,” said DiFruscia, adding it’s difficult to estimate just how many.

“Some of these women are from other countries, but some of them are from our own country.”

A U.S. report on global issues released on Wednesday shows Canada looks good on paper as far as human trafficking is concerned, but Canada still has a long way to go to stamp it out.

“The bad news is we’ve not been able to turn our tough talk on human trafficking into action,” UBC law professor Benjamin Perrin told The Canadian Press.

“We know that human trafficking is continuing to flourish in Canada and that it’s one of the most serious crimes in our country and a fundamental abuse of human rights.”

Canada does comply with the “minimum standards” but the report criticizes the country for “lacking punch.”

“Over the last year, Canada increased victim protection and prevention efforts, but demonstrated limited progress on law-enforcement efforts against trafficking offenders,” the document says…

As per the report, Canada has lagged when it comes to rounding up sex tourists, who travel abroad abusing children.
sex tourism drives human trafficking around the world.

Canada, meanwhile, has convicted only one person in the last decade on sex-tourism charges, he said.

“We’ve really fallen behind globally in preventing our child-sex offenders from exploiting children in impoverished countries overseas,” said Perrin, the founder of The Future Group, a non-governmental organization dedicated to ending human trafficking.
He added,
“We’re not bashing the Grand Prix, it’s just to make sure people are aware when there are big sporting events in a city that this happens,” said DiFruscia, the co-ordinator of the social action office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal.

Read the full article here at the canadianpress.

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