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Whereas major sporting events, conventions, and other such 
events that attract large numbers of people have been 
shown to result in an increase in the demand for com-
mercial sexual services; 
Whereas ‘‘pimps’’ and traffickers are aware of this demand 
and respond to it by trafficking women and girls for 
prostitution at such events; 
Whereas trafficked women are often persuaded to cross inter-
national borders by false promises of legitimate employ-
ment in other countries, before being forced to engage in 
prostitution; 
Whereas Germany is a major destination country for traf-
ficking of women and children for prostitution, and there 
are an estimated 400,000 women in prostitution in Ger-
many, 75 percent of whom are foreigners; 
Whereas the 2006 FIFA World Cup will be played in 12 Ger-
man cities and millions of fans will be in attendance; 
Whereas individuals and organized crime groups that traffic 
women and girls for prostitution are expected to increase 
their activity before and during the 2006 World Cup; 
Whereas in December 2001, Germany legalized ‘‘pimping’’, 
prostitution, and maintaining a brothel, and officially 
stated that prostitution is no longer to be seen as im-
moral; 
Whereas Germany’s legalized prostitution industry has been 
preparing to increase its capacity in anticipation of the 
2006 World Cup; 
Whereas prostitution and related activities—including pimp-
ing and patronizing or maintaining brothels—provide a 
fac¸ade behind which sex traffickers can operate; 
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Whereas in March 2006 the European Parliament adopted a 
resolution on ‘‘forced prostitution in the context of world 
sports events’’, stating that major sporting events at 
which large numbers of people congregate results in a 
‘‘temporary and spectacular increase in the demand for 
sexual services’’ and then listing a number of actions that 
should be undertaken by Germany and others; 
Whereas in April 2006, the European Union Justice and 
Home Affairs Council adopted a list of best practices 
that should be undertaken by member states holding 
major international events, including the development 
and implementation of measures that discourage the de-
mand for trafficking victims; 
Whereas Germany has signed the United Nations Convention 
against Transnational Organized Crime and the United 
Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Traf-
ficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children; 
Whereas in February 2006 the United Nations Special 
Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women 
and children reported to the United Nations Commission 
on Human Rights: ‘‘For the most part, prostitution as 
actually practised in the world usually does satisfy the 
elements of trafficking. . . . Thus, State parties [to the 
United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Pun-
ish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Chil-
dren] with legalized prostitution industries have a heavy 
responsibility to ensure that the conditions which actually 
pertain to the practice of prostitution within their bor-
ders are free from the illicit means delineated in subpara-
graph (a) of the [UN Protocol] definition, so as to ensure 
that their legalized prostitution regimes are not simply 
perpetuating widespread and systematic trafficking. As 
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