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"Mr President, this report is very timely. As more and more refugees and asylum seekers come to Europe, so more are vulnerable to trafficking, and we in this Parliament and the European Union have to take a two—pronged approach to the terrible issue of human trafficking.
First of all, zero tolerance: we will not tolerate human trafficking in any form at all, whether it is women and girls – who are by far the majority of victims – or other human beings who are trafficked for labour exploitation and other forms of exploitation.
As part of the two-pronged strategy, we also need to focus on victims, and that is difficult. Most of the victims, as has already been said, are vulnerable women who have been trafficked away from where they came from and who face appalling abuse. But we need to make sure that we and the Member States provide adequate services for them so that they can come forward. We should do this because we should do it, but we should also do it because victims can play a key role in identifying traffickers and making sure that those traffickers – the majority of whom, interestingly, are men – can be prosecuted and convicted, because unless we address this, we will not wipe out trafficking. We also need to make it a criminal offence across all EU countries to employ the sexual services of, and to use, somebody who has been trafficked."@en1
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