Estonia put on human trafficking watchlist by US State Department

Estonia put on human trafficking watchlist by US State Department (2)

Eestlased Eestis | 27 Jun 2011 | EWR

The United States on Monday put Estonia on a human trafficking watchlist, alleging it failed in the last year to step up efforts to fight prostitution and forced labor.

In its 2011 annual Global Trafficking in Persons Report, the State Department also maintained Russia on the list for the eighth consecutive year for the same alleged failures.

"Estonia is a source, transit, and destination country for women subjected to forced prostitution, and for men and women subjected to conditions of forced labor," the State Department said.

Not only are Estonian women from the countryside forced into prostitution in the capital Tallinn, they also end up in the sex trafficking trade in Finland, the Netherlands, Britain, Germany and Italy, it said.

Both men and women from Estonia are also "subjected to conditions of forced labor" in Spain, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, according to the 2011 Global Trafficking in Persons Report.

"The government of Estonia does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so," the report said.

"Despite these efforts, the government did not demonstrate evidence of increasing efforts over the previous reporting period," it added, placing Estonia on the Tier 2 watchlist.

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls...
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls...

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Elle07 Jul 2011 17:05

It is a shame. There is an underbelly to Estonian society, and that is that some of the men have not only sexist attitudes and believe women are simply to work and serve them.

Don't forget many young men were socialized in the Soviet era, a very crude period in more ways than one...

I wonder29 Jun 2011 19:05

Are the victims predominantly named Anne or Anna?

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