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In Western European countries such as Germany, prostitution is legal—but only for European Union residents. The restrictions are intended to combat trafficking in women—whereby criminal networks smuggle women and girls from one country or region to the next, exploiting them as prostitutes or domestic laborers. Eastern and Central Europe have reportedly surpassed Asia as the prime source of this trafficking. In Germany, 80 per cent of the estimated 10,000 trafficked women are from this European region, according to the International Organization for Migration.
While these women may have chosen to migrate as prostitutes for economic reasons, few are prepared for the abuse frequently encountered. Not only are they driven further into debt, but some are deprived of their passports, raped, sold to clubs and pimps, while others face threats to their families at home if they don't comply. The laws barring these women from legally working as prostitutes were supposed to combat......

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