Other countries may want to turn a blind eye to this issue, we should never do so. Derek, ex-pat, Brazil I would like to say that, if we are interested in tackling these question of trafficking of Eastern women to Western Europe, we have to take seriously, to integrate the gender question into the question of democracy. It is possible to press the Eastern Europe countries to take it seriously, that women's equality is a question of democracy. At the same time, we have to ask ourselves the same question. In a culture where profit dictates every single facet of society, these poor woman are victims of the greed controlling modern society.
Life is cheap.
Harsh penalties must be handed out to the criminals running these rackets, they are the ones who should be denied any rights. There is not much that the government can do about prostitution, except for enforcing the laws about it and acting on complaints from the public. The government could, theoretically, do more to stamp out the use of sex slaves, but those measures would violate peoples freedoms. The government could monitor the borders a little more closely and send back women who are being imported for prostitution, as well as vigorous prosecution of pimps. This is more of a societal problem than anything else.