Trafficked by Kathleen Maltzahn

Kathleen’s recent book, Trafficked, was published by the UNSW Press in July 2008, and in November 2008 was shortlisted for an Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Award for non-fiction literature. You can purchase a copy of ‘Trafficked’ online.

Sex Trafficking of Foreign Women to United States Military Camp Towns in South Korea by Dr Sallie Yea (Senior Research Fellow, International Development Program, RMIT University)

This report provides a comprehensive exploration of Russian and Filipino women trafficked to US military camp towns through in-depth research carried out over an 18-months period with more than 80 women in 6 camp town areas in Korea. It discusses issues of recruitment of women, migration, living conditions in South Korea, experiences within the clubs where they are deployed, and issues of abuse, gendered violence and sexual violence, labour and financial exploitation and customer demand. The report is available from Project Respect at a cost of $40 (inc. GST). Please download the order form and email it to info@projectrespect.org.au if you would like a copy.

One Victim of Trafficking is Too Many: Counting the Human Cost of Trafficking

Project Respect spent six weeks researching and documenting these cases in February and March 2004. This report documents the 300 cases of victims of trafficking uncovered during this research, and outlines, in spreadsheet format, the situations of people trafficked to Australia for labour and sexual servitude. The report was influential in the US government's decision to include Australia in the 2004 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The report is available from Project Respect at a cost of $33 (inc. GST). Please download the order form and email it to info@projectrespect.org.au if you would like a copy.

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Research 

Paying for Servitude: Trafficking in Women for Prostitution, 2004

Project Respect's then-Director Kathleen Maltzahn's invited lecture for the Women's Electoral Lobby, Annual Pamela Denoon Lecture 2004, presented at Australian National University, Canberra, 4 March 2004.

In this speech, Kathleen discusses the extent of trafficking, legal and political responses, and outlines how trafficking made it onto the national agenda in the last few years.

Sex slaves and legal loopholes: Exploring the legal framework and federal responses to the trafficking of Thai 'contract girls' for sexual exploitation to Melbourne, Australia, Marnie Ford on behalf of Project Respect, 2001

Between 1999 and 2000, Melbourne man Gary Glazner was charged with offences related to trafficking in women for prostitution. Marnie Ford researched this trial, and has written a comprehensive assessment of this, the first trafficking-related prosecution in Australia.

The research includes recommendations for addressing trafficking for prostitution.

Connecting Gendered Violence and Trafficking of Women, by Sallie Yea, 2004

Discussions of the push and pull factors behind trafficked women’s decisions to
migrate abroad for tenuous work opportunities tend to variously privilege poverty, familial obligations and, more recently, personal opportunism. This paper is based on a presentation at the Stop the Traffic Conference 2, 23-4 October 2003, RMIT University, Melbourne.