human trafficking issues: the article starts out with a clear emphasis on the cooperation between the different segments of society; cooperation between the state, civil society, and religious groups and institutions on the issues of human trafficking and prostitution, stating how they are immoral, illegal, unethical and how they should be considered as a taboo by societies in Europe, especially Cyprus since the exploitation of women has been rapidly increasing recently. Where all the 800 bars and 70 cabarets take advantage of uneducated, poor, unlucky and socially corrupted women at the cost of reasons such as profit and pleasure, which may seem as lame reasons when compared to the life and future of a young woman. The article also states that some of these women, coming from countries such as Romania, Russia. Bulgaria, the Ukraine, Moldavia, and Belarus enter Cyprus unaware of what is included in their job descriptions, and are forced into prostitution by traffickers, which is humanly unacceptable and should without a doubt be banned from societies regardless of what kind of profit they may bring to the traffickers and to the public even as a whole. The article does mention trafficking in different manners and types, but I chose to pay bigger attention to the issues regarding prostitution here in Cyprus. As I would like to make a clear emphasis on how this issue relates directly to the issue of poverty.
The article mentions a few solutions agreed upon by the state, the civil society and the churches. One of which mentions using the help of churches in an attempt to help the exploited women and to spiritually guide them towards better lives. Another solution was the campaigning proposal, where protectors of human rights helped increase public awareness of exactly what is going on and to what extent women are exploited. the article was completely pro the abolishment of trafficking and prostitution practices and there were no arguments or debates in defense of the practices taking place in society. There are a number of measures that should be undertaken by society for the improvement of the existing situation before it gets any worse, making it harder to fix later on, which would lead to a degraded corrupted society in the possible near future.
as the article mentioned, churches should be a big part in the process of helping the exploited woman with the trauma their jobs brought to them. Also, the public should be made clearly aware of the situation, and all the details included in the issue of prostitution and how traffickers force it upon their employees. Also, more pa trollers should be made available to try and control the situation by arresting traffickers, which may also scare off other traffickers involved in similar situations. These among many other solutions deal with the short term perspective of these issues, but more extreme issues should be taken into deep consideration for the general prevalence of such issues to be significantly reduced in the Cypriot society. But these major global problems are unfix able due to the mere egoistic nature of human beings. Regardless of their societal background, human beings in general, by their biological nature, tend to put their well being before the well being of anyone else.
All other people’s well being and desires, tend to come after the fulfillment of most peoples personal desires. This is why the major problem of extreme poverty and starvation in Africa has not yet been resolved. The main reasons prostitutes do what they do in Cyprus goes back to the more general issues such as poverty and education. To make a long story short, if any of these women were adequately educated and were able to get promising jobs then, without a doubt, the thought of promiscuity would not even be an option for them as a career.
Who in their right mind would do what prostitutes do if they did not need the financial returns merely to survive. so for the general prevalence of such matters to be reduced has to do with the global society as a whole more than what Cyprus as a country can do about the matter, especially since the exploited women generally don’t seem to be complaining or doing anything about their exploitation. Recently, the state and public seem to be more involved in the matter than the exploited women are themselves. All the measures mentioned in this essay are basically measures which need to be made publicly more aware, more involvement by the worlds population needs to take place in order for a dramatic betterment of societies worldwide to take place.