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An activist protesting at an Amnesty International demonstration this week in Tel Aviv against the trafficking of women. (Dan Keinan) Last update - 12:51 05/10/2007 Government drafts multi-faceted plan to fight trafficking in women By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent aeli women from being sent abroad to work in the sex industry. The plan was prepared by a committee including the directors general of nine government ministries, and representatives of the police and anti-women trafficking organizations. Five teams are now being formed to draft operative steps for the next several months and to calculate the budget needed. Advertisement The plan includes 30 measures of prevention, enforcement and protection. It seeks to make monitoring the border with Egypt a top priority - that is where most foreign women are brought into Israel. Under the plan, the women would be returned safely to their country of origin and would receive medical treatment in Israel if necessary. A PR campaign is to be launched in Israel and in the women's home countries in order to explain the implications for victims of human trafficking. The committee also recommended more economic measures to limit profits from human trafficking, in part by involving police tax-fraud investigators. The committee also noted that resources are necessary to translate the testimonies of victims and to enable proper police questioning, so that their handlers can be prosecuted. The plan also calls for research into prostitution and human trafficking, and for curbing demand for sex services by better enforcing the law prohibiting sex advertisements and by taking action against clubs and other sites where prostitution occurs, among other measures. To speed up legal proceedings against suspects accused of women trafficking, the committee recommends authorizing a single judge, rather than a panel of three judges, to adjudicate cases. The committee also called for raising judges' and attorneys' awareness regarding the importance of awarding human trafficking victims compensation in court, and is seeking to institute ways of getting these payments to women who have left the country. The directors general committee on trafficking in women was to have been established in 2003, when some 3,000 women a year were victims of trafficking, but began work only in 2006. Due to increased enforcement and prevention, current estimates state that less than 1,000 women are trafficked into Israel a year. However, attorney Rochelle Gershuni, the Justice Ministry coordinator of government bodies and nonprofit organizations against human trafficking, says she is concerned the numbers could rise again. Among other things, Gershuni says she shares the concern that the decision to allow Russian tourists in without a visa - a cabinet decision set to go into effect at the end of the year - might enable women from the former Soviet Union to be smuggled into Israel. Related articles Police arrest nine accused of trafficking human organs National service volunteer fights trafficking in women Knesset committee data reveals courts soft on human trafficking Bookmark to del.icio.us   Slamming Obama McCain uses speech to AIPAC to criticize Obama for willingness to meet U.S. foes. Soldier kidnapping Three Israeli Arabs charged with planning to kidnap, kill soldier.   1.   the religious identity has value/merit 06:51  |  Mark 05/10/07   2.   Respecting a woman`s person. 07:16  |  sandra chitayat 05/10/07   3.   Marvelous news! 08:59  |  HH 05/10/07   4.   sex-services advertising 09:29  |  aeli 05/10/07   5.   First step: enforcement 09:51  |  Yehudah 05/10/07   6.   The collapse in the value of women 10:14  |  MARK KLEIN, M.D. 05/10/07   7.   #3, HH 10:24  |  Hannah 05/10/07   8.   What kind of society are you running there? 10:36  |  Mary E. 05/10/07   9.   aeli`s right 10:43  |  sh 05/10/07   10.   It could be less-faceted but mobilized around the real issue: 11:10  |  zmogus 05/10/07   11.   EXEMPLARY SENTENCES 11:20  |  SM 05/10/07   12.   respose to Mary E 11:20  |  yosef 05/10/07   13.   You should have learned from the mistakes 11:34  |  Mary E. 05/10/07   14.   #6, MARK KLEIN, M.D.Thus spoke the one who calls the "real" price 11:40  |  zmogus phd 05/10/07   15.   Not only Israel, but at least they`re starting to care 11:43  |  Jessica 05/10/07   16.   MARK KLEIN M.D. 11:47  |  Hillary Kemp Ph.D 05/10/07   17.   The ethics of ur society need to be worked on 11:58  |  Mary E. 05/10/07   18.   1000 a year is not an epidemic 12:05  |  J.J. 05/10/07   19.   The ethics Mary try USA first 12:35  |  Petra 05/10/07   20.   #8, Mary E. 12:39  |  Hannah 05/10/07   21.   What kind of society are you running there? Better than US 12:40  |  Petra 05/10/07   22.   Mary E. Gap between Israeli and American homologues 12:46  |  zmogus 05/10/07   23.   J.J. 12:51  |  sh 05/10/07   24.   #10, Zmogus; #14, Hillary Kemp, PhD 12:52  |  Hannah 05/10/07   25.   #18, J.J. Oh you take it as `Jewish self-hating` tendency? 13:25  |  zmogus 05/10/07   26.   The main problem is with the corrupt Police 13:49  |  CP 05/10/07   27.   Start at home: excellent remark, Aeli (#4) ! 13:56  |  Leo 05/10/07   28.   Trafficking in women is maybe a warning sign that our obsession 14:04  |  Apartheid 05/10/07   29.   To my critics 14:12  |  MARK KLEIN, M.D. 05/10/07   30.   The missing report 15:20  |  Leo 05/10/07   31.   #8 Mary E. 17:14  |  * BEN JABO 05/10/07   32.   Held to unrealistic expectations 21:50  |  Geoff 05/10/07   33.   I love this post from Mark Klein M.D. 06:58  |  Dror 03/06/08

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