Season Trafficking in Women

Season Trafficking in Women

In order to prepare a paper for an international seminar on women sponsored by the Embassy of Iran in Jakarta, I examine one of the speech Iranian Supreme Leader (Rahbar), Ayatollah Khamenei. There are interesting things in that speech. Leader linked the Western view of women is wrong with the plight of women today. 

Season Trafficking in Women

West, according to Leader, looks at a woman as a 'party which exploited' and men as 'the parties who use'. The Leader said that one result of this erroneous view, today human trafficking (trafficking), covering trade in which women are the fastest growing industries in the world.

Whether coincidence or was already so set him, I then watched a DVD titled "The Whistleblower", initially just for refreshing. Apparently the film was removed from a true story, tells of a female cop from the U.S., named Kathryn Bolkovac, who joined the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia, in the 1990s. One day, Kathryn found two young girls in very bad condition (severe injuries). Apparently, they ran away from a bar. Kathryn was trying to investigate the case.

Apparently, near the site of the UN peacekeeping base there is a bar full of young girls sex workers. Inside the bar, Kathryn found the passports of girls, from various countries in Eastern Europe. In addition, Kathryn is also found photographs of sadistic: the girls were treated very horrible (I closed my eyes again and again in these scenes, do not look at him). Which makes Kathryn shock, the perpetrator of cruelty recorded in the photographs are his own friends, the members of the peacekeeping force.

Kathryn then went to a shelter displaced girls. It was there that the two girls who were injured were treated. Old mother's shelter workers said, "These girls are not prostitutes. They are treated like dogs. "

Kathryn investigation rolling. He found that there had been trafficking in women; girls from various countries in Eastern Europe brought to Bosnia, to be a prostitute. And because they are considered 'prostitutes', then by the United Nations, these activities legalized. As UN officials in Bosnia said (in the film), "The girls are the whores of the war. It Happens. "Keep in mind, when there are 21,000 troops that the United Nations, NATO soldiers, bureaucrats, and administrators are entrenched in Bosnia, for the sake of 'keeping the peace'. It is they who become the customer's sex centers.

After conducting further review, I also find out that the Western view, prostitution is something that is 'legal' in the sense: after all the women who choose to sell their bodies, so it 'right' and consequently they have their own responsibility.

Sites' Not For Sale "(a global network of actively calling for halt to human trafficking) states that the purpose of sex trafficking of women (sex trafficking) are often under the guise of being running the prostitution business. "Because of sex traffickers disguised prostitution, the public does not feel angry," writes the site. In reality, most trafficked women are young girls (between 12-17 years old). It's hard to accept, accusations that they themselves are 'choosing' to prostitution; especially prostitution in very severe conditions (tortured, imprisoned, etc.).

This site analyzes that sex traffickingmerupakan one of the adverse effects of globalization. Globalization has made people easily do business trans-national, past national borders. Sophistication of the means of communication and banking network, making the sex offender traffickingdengan easily transact with one another, despite living in a very remote distance. Young women from Asia or Eastern Europe, with the 'easy' is exported to various countries in the world. Prostitution centers from around the world, easily supplied with the girls from any country you want, just by picking up the phone. The site "Not For Sale" note, today there are over 30 million people enslaved around the world (working in various sectors, including the sex trade).

Back again to the story of Kathryn. Kathryn gave a report to his superiors, regarding this case. His boss replied, "We can not investigate this case. Peacekeeping forces have diplomatic immunity. "(!) In fact, shortly afterwards, Kathryn fired. A human rights official on duty in Bosnia, Madeleine Rees, Kathryn support. He protested this decision to the UN official who said, "We must protect this organization ... the UN is very important ... and it is necessary diplomatic immunity." Rees argue, "Immunity [Immune], not impunity [freedom of the law]."

Rees then pushed Kathryn (who was fired) to bring the case to the mass media in Britain. Had been a furor, and a few 'rogue' troops withdrawn, but not punished.

It's absurd. United Nations, an institution that supposedly established to protect the international community, it became one of the protectors of the trans-national crime, to take refuge in the dogma of 'diplomatic immunity'. Even more absurd, in fact, most of 'peacekeepers' in Bosnia's UN status is an employee of a private security company called DynCorp (in the film, disguised by another name).

If explored further, in situations of conflict, there were private security companies (private military company / PMC), which earned huge profits. They signed a contract with the United Nations, Western governments, or anyone who has money, to provide 'security force'. According to the book Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, today PMC operates in at least 50 countries worldwide.

International law also proved powerless in the face of this situation. PMC is the legal status of gray and a debate among international legal experts. In fact, the International Court do not include the PMC as legal subjects (mean, PMC can not be prosecuted to the International Court of Justice). Therefore, although hampered by the case uncovered by Kathryn, DynCorp fixed pitch today. The U.S. government in 2005 signed a contract with DynCorp millions of dollars for the project 'peacekeepers' in Iraq. Their task was to recruit 1000 'civilian security experts' to be flown into Iraq. There, DynCorp troops will 'help' of local residents in dealing with security.

There is not a whistleblower from Iraq to dismantle whether DynCorp also trafficking in there (or in other countries where the company DynCorp and similar companies operate), but various reports suggest that human trafficking is also happening in Iraq.

Back to the Leader's speech. The above description can at least be evidence that the wrong view of women is a source of human tragedy. When women are considered as property that can dijualbelikan, their protection was carried out half-way and only in order to meet public demands. Cases of sex trafficking in Bosnia simply ignored after one dared to dismantle, but people in the United Nations already know there are such cases (even come to enjoy it). They are constantly looking for justification to protect the billions of dollars in this business. As justification for the UN official said, "These girls were prostitutes in the (situation) of war. It (usually) happen. "[]

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