European Union

European Union
2006
28-Feb-05	EU to fight forced prostitution during major sports events	Euractiv	Request by Sweden.
15-Mar-06	Initiatives to end sex trafficking: launch of an Anti-Trafficking Day	EU Parliament	The European Parliament calls for a European wide campaign to inform the general public and to reduce the demand. MEPs also propose an Anti-Trafficking Day to raise awareness on the issue of trafficking in all its aspects.
22-Mar-06	Campaign launched to stamp out sex slavery	Examiner Ann Cahill	Global campaign "Stop the Traffik" launched in Brussels March 21, 2006. Plans to raise awareness and stop women and young girls being sold into sex slavery
2005
26-Jan-05	Council Of Europe report says organized crime poses threat to democracy	Radio Free Europe Breffni O'Rourke	Europe
09-Feb-05	UK police help counter sex trade	BBC News	UK / Southeast Asia
	UK demands crackdown on sex trafficking	Guardian Ed Vulliamy	Harriet Harman Eurojust
	Harman urges action over sex-slave trade	The Scotsman	Harriet Harman Eurojust
03-Mar-05	Finland found to be transit point for traffic in women from east to west	HELSINGIN SANOMAT	Over 1,000 young women have traveled from Georgia via Finland to Western Europe in recent years, only to disappear while en route. The Finnish Frontier Guard believe that the women may have ended up in the illicit sex trade in Western Europe. Previously Finnish officials had denied reports that Finland was a major transit point in the international traffic in women.
08-Mar-05	Int'l Women's Day: It means little to a sex slave	Inter Press Service Julio Godoy	Between 200,000 and 500,000 victims of human traffickers annually, most young women forced into sex industry.
18-Mar-05	Vienna Conference Discussing Trafficking In Children	Radio Free Europe	More than 200 international experts met in Vienna to hear reports on the use of young girls and boys from the Balkans and Eastern Europe in prostitution, criminal gangs, and pornography.
06-Apr-05	Moldovia to step up anti-trafficking measures	Radio Free Europe	Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin announced plans to open an anti-trafficking center to curb human smuggling
07-Apr-05	New EU States To Join Schengen Open-Border Agreement In 2007	Radio Free Europe Breffni O'Rourke	Schengen open-borders agreement: Travelers arriving at one of the EU's outer borders are checked only once, and thereafter can travel freely inside nearly all the nations of the bloc. Britain and Ireland have declined to join full Schengen system, preferring to keep control over cross-border flows a national responsibility.
05-May-05	A year on, EU's eastern frontier holds up	Reuters Sabina Zawadzki	Despite fears that borders would prove porous to organised crime, smuggled drugs, cigarettes and the trafficking of illegal immigrants and sex slaves, law enforcement officials say the EU's 1,865 mile -long eastern frontier has held up well.
10-May-05	EU launches plan on terrorism, migration, visas and crime	Finfacts	Launch of 5 year Action Plan for Freedom, Justice and Security. Maps out concrete measures to strengthen citizen’s security, to tackle terrorism, to strengthen the Union’s external borders and the fight against illegal-drugs, people-trafficking and organised crime. Mid-term review of the Action Plan will take place in November 2006.
12-May-05	Austria smashes human-trafficking ring	IOL	Austrian authorities said they have smashed a major human trafficking ring allegedly led by Romanian, Moldovan and Ukrainian criminals who smuggled more than 5,000 eastern Europeans to the west in the past few years.
16-Oct-05	European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labor and Migration	ICRSE Amsterdam	Held in Brussels on October 16 and 17
18-Oct-05	New laws plea to protect EU's vulnerable sex trade workers	Unison.ie Conor Sweeney	A group consisting mostly of current and former prostitutes is lobbying the European Parliament to legalise prostitution in Ireland and other European countries. Call was rejected as "an endorsement of the misery an exploitation" by critics of prostitution. Ireland has no plans to change existing legislation. "Operation Angel" mounted in Ireland two years ago to crackdown on illicit lap-dancing clubs also acting as brothels and exploiting illegal immigrants. See article for further details of debate.
28-Oct-05	Sex Workers Ask EU to Respect Their 'Rights' http://www.townhall.com/news/ext_wire.html?rowid=16615	CNSNews Townhall Eva Cahen	International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) (lobbying group) want European Union governments to respect their human rights and apply labor laws to their profession. Article provides examples of rights violations suffered by sex workers. The declaration was created and endorsed by a group of some 200 sex workers from 30 countries gathered in Brussels on October 16 and 17 for the European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labor and Migration.
2004
20-Jan-04	MEP urges study of sexual behaviour of men	Irish Examiner Geoff Meade, Brussels	Swedish MEP Marianne Eriksson
19-Feb-04	Adoption of a programme of financial and technical assistance to third countries in the area of migration and asylum	European Commission	AENEAS Program Combating illegal immigration, including human trafficking
19-Feb-04	Euro sex biz battle?	Reuters	Proposed ban on prostitution
11-Mar-04	Parliament backs stay permit scheme for human-trafficking victims	European Report	Support for victims
15-Mar-04	Ireland to fund women trafficking prevention project in Ukraine	Interfax-Ukraine news agency : Kiev	Irish government funding for anti-trafficking project
10-Apr-04	Porn To Die	Sunday Herald Jenifer Johnston	Marianne Eriksson MEP proposing EU research - men & porn, prostitutes and titillating websites; whether adult erotica will lead to abuse of children, trafficking of women, and sexual criminality.
07-May-04	NATO force 'feeds Kosovo sex trade'	The Guardian Ian Traynor	Kosovo
11-May-04	The Czech Republic proposes a Dutch solution to sex trafficking	National Review Prof. Donna Hughes	Professor Donna Hughes re: legalization of prostitution in the Czech Republic
2001
09-Feb-01	EU tackles sex trade	BBC
08-Mar-01	EU 'to protect' sex slaves	BBC
18-Oct-05	New laws plea to protect EU's vulnerable sex trade workers	Unison.ie Conor Sweeney