Week 13 - Official documents / EU texts

Please read this carefully!

The session on December 2nd is cancelled due to a faculty meeting at 10am. The test in guided translation is cancelled. Instead, please translate the paragraphs below, and-
1) send your translations as "comments" to this blog entry;
2) leave a hard copy of your translation in my office (A/6 Room 1) or in my mailbox (A/6 Room 9) printed out and signed. Deadline for submission: 2nd December 2pm. Late submissions will not be considered. Instead of the in-class test, this take-home test will provide your final grade in this term.

The creation and growth of a unified Europe has brought many opportunities. The freedom for people to move across the borders of individual Member States, to seek opportunities and to work in bigger markets is now an everyday reality.

However, positive gains have sometimes been accompanied by unwelcome consequences to which we must show zero tolerance. Some people have sought to take advantage of our freedoms and make a profit. People smugglers and human traffickers work differently but both seek to exploit human vulnerability for money. People smugglers provide illicit transport to those trying to cross borders illegally – often because these people are ignorant of, or excluded from legal migration channels. Human traffickers, on the other hand, use coercion, deception and often brute force to transport children, adolescents and adults within countries or across borders in order to exploit them – in agriculture, manufacturing, street trades, begging and prostitution.

Victims are often women and teenage girls whose vulnerability, restricted access to legitimate jobs and often inferior family status, coupled with a thriving commercial sexual market, underpin the lucrative ‘business’ of trafficking in Europe. Europe has rightly labelled human trafficking as the ‘modern slave trade’ and, like slavery, it must be abolished. We have a moral duty to tackle human trafficking. As part of our focus on protecting the rights of children, we must prevent traffickers exploiting and abusing them.

We must help the victims of trafficking. A landmark Communication from the Commission in November 1996 put the trafficking of females for sexual exploitation firmly on to the European political agenda. The Communication places human trafficking in the context of gendered violence, organised crime, labour migration and law enforcement. We need to understand the full extent of trafficking as a heinous crime in order to prosecute it effectively. Society must be inclusive of trafficking victims. Only with the possibility of escape and protection will there be co-operation with the police.

Week 12 - Official documents

For next week (25 Nov.) please revise your earlier translations of the EU text in discussion but do not re-send your work. No new written task for next week. In the session on 25 Nov., you are going to do a guided trasnlation of extracts from the EU text that we have been dealing with.

Week 11 - Official documents / EU texts

For Week 11 (18 Nov.) please read the following paragraphs and correct the translations below, and send your works as "comments" to this blog entry. Please send your comments BEFORE 18 November, as late postings will not be considered.

This must, of course, be done in collaboration with all the agencies involved and ideally it should lead to some agreed parameters for data collection and storage. This is vital because the complex nature of trafficking and exploitation – cutting across law enforcement, labour sector, human rights, health and social boundaries – calls above all for centralised coordination and analysis. The experience of those countries that have put in place national task forces or coordinating bodies for trafficking issues should provide valuable lessons in the next few years.
Programmatically, there is a continued need not to focus too narrowly on ‘trafficking’ as a phenomenon and forget the importance of dealing with the root causes of trafficking and exploitation both at origin and destination – social factors such as systems that leave people, especially women, with inappropriate or no qualifications; few job opportunities; family poverty; and misinformation. In destination countries, also, there is an urgent need to focus more on reducing demand for under-priced and illegal labour. This must involve those bodies that can influence the markets – trade unions, consumer associations, chambers of commerce, employers’ organisations and others. Ministries of Labour should be brought more often into discussions and actions relating to trafficking. Where there is no demand, traffickers will not be able to make money and most commentators agree that taking away the profit is the best deterrent.

Ezt persze minden egyesület közreműködésével kellene létrehozni, és ideális esetben kölcsönösen elfogadott paraméterek születhetnek az adat rögzítésére valamint tárolására. Ez azért lényeges mert az emberkereskedelem és kizsákmányolás teljes folyamata –szembeszegülés a törvénnyel és a dolgozói szervezettel, valamint áthágása az emberi jogoknak illetve az egészségügyi és társadalmi korlátoknak- elsődlegesen központosított irányítást és elemzést igényel. Azon az országok tapasztalata, melyek nemzeti munkacsoportokat vagy a csempészettel foglalkozó koordinációs szerveket állítottak fel, értékes tanulságként szolgálhatnak az elkövetkező néhány évben.

Tulajdonképpen folyamatos igény van arra, hogy az embercsempészet, mint jelenség ne kapjon ilyen mértékű figyelmet, illetve, hogy feledkezzenek meg az embercsempészet és a kizsákmányolás alapvető okaival foglalkozó vizsgálatok jelentőségéről, mind eredetben, mind következményben.Ezen társadalmi tényezők, mint szervezetek, melyek magára hagyják az embereket, főleg a nőket, kevés vagy semmiféle képesítéssel,kevés munkalehetőséggel,családi szegénységgel és félrevezető tájékoztatással.Ehhez szükség van azon testületekre, melyek hatással lehetnek a piacra, ilyenek például a szakszervezetek, fogyasztói egyesületek, kereskedelmi kamara, munkáltatói szervezetek, stb.A célországokban sürgető igény van az alul fizetett és törvénytelen munka csökkentésére is.A Munkaügyi Minisztériumokat sokkal gyakrabban kellene embercsempészettel kapcsolatos tárgyalásokba és intézkedésekbe bevonni.Ahol nincs rá igény, ott a csempészek képtelenek lesznek pénzt keresni és a legtöbb kommentátor egyetértett abban, hogy az elrettentés legjobb eszköze a profit megvonása.

Week 10 - Official documents - EU texts

For the next session on 11 November, please-
- each team check, correct and mark the team translations received today. Please also justify your mark. Please also indicate your names.
- individually, please translate these paragraphs and send your work as "comments" to this blog entry. Please also bring the English text and your own translation for the seminar.

Although this report has highlighted the paucity of useable data on trafficking and labour exploitation in Europe, this section will not begin with a call for more data. It is clear that data do exist – in police and court records, in the records of health and social services, as a result of helplines, hotlines, drop-in centres, refuges and shelters, and in other places where victims and perpetrators come into contact with various services. What is needed is a ‘clearing house’ mechanism or function – at national and regional levels – to bring these data together, analyse and consolidate them, and transform them into useful and useable information.

This must, of course, be done in collaboration with all the agencies involved and ideally it should lead to some agreed parameters for data collection and storage. This is vital because the complex nature of trafficking and exploitation – cutting across law enforcement, labour sector, human rights, health and social boundaries – calls above all for centralised coordination and analysis. The experience of those countries that have put in place national task forces or coordinating bodies for trafficking issues should provide valuable lessons in the next few years.
Programmatically, there is a continued need not to focus too narrowly on ‘trafficking’ as a phenomenon and forget the importance of dealing with the root causes of trafficking and exploitation both at origin and destination – social factors such as systems that leave people, especially women, with inappropriate or no qualifications; few job opportunities; family poverty; and misinformation. In destination countries, also, there is an urgent need to focus more on reducing demand for under-priced and illegal labour. This must involve those bodies that can influence the markets – trade unions, consumer associations, chambers of commerce, employers’ organisations and others. Ministries of Labour should be brought more often into discussions and actions relating to trafficking. Where there is no demand, traffickers will not be able to make money and most commentators agree that taking away the profit is the best deterrent.