Sep 6th, 2010
Indianapolis Escorts: UN Trust Fund Provides Hope for Indonesian Women Trafficked Abroad
Gary Lewis, the East Asia and Pacific representative from the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime, says that although the number of reports has risen, the lack of data makes it difficult to measure the true extent of the problem.
“If we don’t know that outcomes are resulting, if we don’t know, for example, that there are fewer women being arrested for soliciting who have been victims, if we don’t know that there are a greater number of brothel keepers and kingpins who are being arrested, prosecuted and convicted for these crimes, we won’t know that our actions are leading to anything conclusive or useful at all,” said Lewis. “So we need baseline data not only to see if the problem is growing, but we need it to see if our actions are actually having a proper impact.”