Faster, higher, stronger

In other words, the number of known human trafficking victims almost doubled in the year of the Athens Olympics. [...] On May 29, 2007, the Standing Committee on the Status of Women recommended “[t]hat the government, in collaboration with provincial and municipal counterparts as well as experts from the police, international organizations and NGOs, develop and implement a plan prior to the opening of the 2010 Olympics to curtail the trafficking of women and 1 girls for sexual purposes during the games and after.” [...] Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs; (b) The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth in subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant where any of the me [...] In the lead up to the 2006 World Cup, the media reported un-attributed estimates that up to 40,000 women might be trafficked to satisfy an increased demand for prostitution – forty times the average 12 number of documented cases of human trafficking annually in the country. [...] While the German Government agreed that the unfounded estimate of 40,000 trafficking victims did not materialize, it reported in January 2007 to the Council of the European Union that prostitution did, in fact, increase as a result of the World Cup: In the run up to the 2006 World Cup, it became clear that a higher number of prostitutes could be expected in and around the game venues and the hotel