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Why Australia?

Important

'The Jammed'

A story about human trafficking and the sex slave trade in Australia and the search for three girls trapped by a trafficking syndicate.

'Trafficked' 

Haunted by a decade-old case, a former police officer investigates how a young Thai girl was sold as a sex slave to a Sydney brothel.

'Trafficked - The Reckoning' 

This sequel to 'Trafficked' is a tough and suspenseful investigative documentary that takes us into the brutal underworld of the slave trade in Australia and Thailand.

 

WHAT MAKES AUSTRALIA APPEALING FOR TRAFFICKERS?

Project Respect believes that the demand for trafficked women is fuelled by:

  • a lack of women in Australia prepared to do prostitution
  • customers demanding women who are compliant
  • customers demanding women they can be violent towards
  • racialised ideas that certain ethnicities such as Asian women have the above 'qualities'

The sheer profitability of trafficking makes it a lucrative trade. While traffickers are allowed to continue to operate with virtual impunity, and without fear of losing assets or their income, trafficking will continue unabated. An integrated and effective government response must address these factors and underline the fact that no matter how poor or desperate a person might be, if there is no market for them in a destination country, they will not be trafficked.

[Why Women Stay in Prostitution]