CARSLBAD, CA - World Emergency
Relief (WER-US) announces today its full support of the coalition
of Christian groups formed to protest against prostitution
being officially promoted this summer during the World Cup
Games in Germany.
Twelve
German cities will host the World Cup this summer, with
40,000 women expected to
be sexually trafficked from
Central and Eastern Europe into Germany to service
sports fans from around the world. These women will
be in addition
to the 400,000 women already working in Germany’s
sex industry legalized in 2002.
Supporting
this sexual extravaganza, the German government is launching
its own mega-brothel
now being constructed,
as well as "sex huts”. Local cities hosting
these games are also issuing special permits for street
prostitution during the World Cup.
“The German government is promoting potential violence
against vulnerable women during the World Cup. Their involvement
should be condemned,” says WER’s CEO Joel MacCollam. “We
are fighting this for Christian reasons, including
the spread of disease, destruction of lives, the threats
to
marriage, as well as the incredible emotional and physical
abuses these women risk suffering at the hands of their
trafficking managers.”
“For these 40,000 women trafficked into Germany
and their 400,000 local colleagues, the World Cup will
be no fun fest of sportsmanship, but only yet another time
the world turns its back against sex trafficking of women,
and possibly children as well. We can’t silently
let this happen against some of the world’s most
vulnerable.”
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