WASHINGTON, D.C. - BACKGROUND: While the winner of the World Cup remains unknown, the clear losers will be the thousands of women and children trafficked and sold in Germany’s legal sex industry to accommodate the huge influx of demand experts anticipate will be generated by male fans attending the games. 

            An estimated 3 million fans from around the world will attend the games, and vast numbers of them are expected to buy sex as a form of entertainment. As many as 40,000 additional women are expected to be added to the approximately 400,000 women in Germany’s sex industry. Germans are rushing to accommodate the trade in women by facilitating the construction of mega-brothels and “sex huts” and cities hosting the games will issue special permits for street prostitution, creating a virtual partnership with brothel owners, pimps and traffickers

WHO: Representative Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Vice Chairman, House Intl’ Relations
            Committee.

            Dr. Barrett Duke, VP for Public Policy and Research, Southern Baptist Ethics &             
            Religious Commission

            Dr. Donna Hughes, Professor of Women Studies, University of Rhode Island
            Dr. Janice Crouse, Senior Fellow, Beverly LaHaye Institute, Concerned Women
            for America

WHEN: Monday, May 1, 2006
              10:30 AM

WHERE: Cannon Terrace

Other groups joining in the call for action are:

Organizations:

Adults Saving Kids (USA)

The Angel Coalition (Russia)

Breaking Free (USA)

Catholic Charities, Catholic Social Services, Atlanta (USA)

Catholic Charities, DIGNITY Services, Arizona (USA)

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

Concerned Women for America (USA)

Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd

Crisis Care Training International (USA)

Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (USA)

Evangelicals for Social Action (USA)

Equality Now (USA)

Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS)

International Center of Atlanta (USA)

International Institute on Religion and Public Policy (USA)

International Pentecostal Church of Christ (USA)

International Public Policy Institute (USA)

Irish Anti-Trafficking Coalition (Ireland)

Josephine Butler Forum (USA)

Karelian Center of Gender Studies (Russia)

Make Way Partners (USA)

Midland Ministerial Alliance (USA)

Minorities & Survivors Improving Empowerment (USA)

MiraMed Institute (Russia)

MODAR (Tajikistan)

National Association of Evangelicals (USA)

Phoenix Women Take Back the Night (USA)

Prostitution Research & Education, Chicago (USA)

Prostitution Research & Education, San Francisco (USA)

The Protection Project (USA)

Psychological Crisis Center of St. Petersburg (Russia)

Public Innovation Fund of Tatarstan (Russia)

Resist Exploitation, Embrace Dignity (REED)

Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE) (USA)

Trafficking Victim Assessment Center (Russia)

VERONICA’S Voice (USA)

Voices for Justice Network/Sex Industry Survivors (USA)

World Hope International (USA)

World Emergency Relief (USA)

You Are Never Alone (YANA) (USA)

Academics, Trafficking Experts:

Nissan Ben Ami, Social Activist, Tel Aviv, Israel

Claudia Barlow, Consultant on Trafficking and Medicine

Stephen D. Grubman-Black, Ph.D., Professor of Women’s Studies and Communications,

University of Rhode Island

Phyllis Chesler, Emerita Professor of Psychology and Womens Studies and author

Dr. Donna Hughes, Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Rhode Island

Chong N. Kim, Survivor of Human Trafficking

Mary Anne Layden, Ph.D., Director, Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, Center for

Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania

Mai Izat Odeh, Palestinian Hospitality & Tourism Resource Center, Arab Hotel Association