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From notes@igc.org Sat Jul 13 21:11:14 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.org (192.82.108.35) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Sat, 13 Jul 1996 21:11:15 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA16439; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 17:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: 13 Jul 1996 17:20:23 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: Ivo Skoric Subject: (Fwd) News from Medica-Zenica -Forwarded To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <199607132342.QAA24883@igc3.igc.apc.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 48 From: "Ivo Skoric" Subject: (Fwd) News from Medica-Zenica -Forwarded Zenica, 13.06.1996. SUBJECT: Humanitarian Sextourism? To all Humanitarian Organisation and International Agencies It is an open secret that also in Zenica prostitution is increasing. We are alarmed by the fact that this concerns especially young women and girls sometimes not older than 14 years. The places for making contact are known: the vicinity of big hotels like Hotel International, Metallurg, Dom Penzionera, and other central places like the main bridge or Radakovo. It seems that most clients are Internationals, i.e. male members of humanitarian and other international organisations whose task it should be to help improve the living conditions in Bosnia. Instead, by buying sex they take advantage of economical need and inexperience of young women and girls. This fact itself is a scandal. It is outraging considering that thousands of women have been subject to rape, sexual violation and torture in this country during the war. The increase of prostitution is a typical symptom of post war times. Especially in places where there are a lot of international male staff and soldiers. This is known from other countries like Germany or the Philippines, where women and girls are forced to prostitute themselves in order to survive. Medica will start to monitor and observe the situation in Zenica. We ask all organisations working with women and girls - to provide us with whatever information they have on this subject - to mobilise their donators and head offices for setting up income generating projects especially for women and girls Last not least we urge all head of offices to look into this matter with due care and dismiss immediately all male staff members having sex with minors or taking advantage of the miserable situation of many women in Zenica. Sexual exploitation is not a matter of privacy! Medica Infoteka