Volunteers at FCAT Cordoba against the sexual exploitation and trafficking of women and children
The team of volunteers has organised a Cineforum under this topic in celebration of the International Day Against the Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Women and Children
Cordoba, 25th September
2013. The African Film Festival of Cordoba counts on an
important body of volunteers who have been involved in a wide range of
activities since early September. As part of them, there has been a cineforum
at the Film Archive of Andalusia on trafficking of women and children, in
celebration of the International Day Against the Sexual Exploitation and
Trafficking of Women and Children. This initiative has been sponsored by the
Women Andalusian Institute (Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer) and NGOD Women in
Conflict Zones.
The event, entitled “In Search of
the End” [“En Busca del Fin”] has taken place from 17.30 to 20.00 on the 24th
of September at the venue Josefina (Film Archive of Andalusia). The volunteers
have vividly participated in a debate chaired by Soledad Pérez (MP of Junta de
Andalusia) and Bashira Escudero (Women in Conflict Zones). “Very often women
captured in these nets are not aware of their condition of victim”, Escudero
stated, “thus we do not just identify these women, but we offer them a
psychological support and juridical assistance”. However, the audience was
shocked after Pérez read the report of 2012 of the actions to prevent the
trafficking of women and children and sexual exploitation. “There is a very weak
chain from the risk, to crime and conviction”, Pérez has claimed. “At the
moment, there is no strategy to prevent and act for the eradication of this
problem. This debate has disappeared from the political discourse”. Finally,
she has enjoyed the occasion to denounce the fact that “in Spain, as a
country, we have never fully rejected prostitution. And many youngsters even
see it as something fun to do with their friends”. The problem, as the debate has pointed out
requires as well to rethink the notion of trafficking, very often mistaken with
that of prostitution. This forum has concluded with the screening of the
documentary film Les filières africaines
de la prostitution, by Olivier Enogo, aimed precisely at raising awareness
of this issue, which has given faces to the issues discussed during the debate.
With this activity, the team of
volunteers at FACT Cordoba
wants to claim the need for implementing a comprehensive law on trafficking of
people for sexual exploitation. This law should focus on preventing this scourge,
the development of actions to avoid inappropriate sexual content in publicity
and to establish services for the protection of the victims.
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