National NGOs report to the annual UN Commission on Human Rights: Evaluation of National Authorities activities and Actual facts on the Trafficking in Persons for the purpose of prostitution, local prostitution and the sex industry in Israel

Forwarded to the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children (see Annex IV)


By

Leah Gruenpeter Gold
Emiela Kaufman
Ina Soltanovitch
Nadia Klein
Lauren Milek


On behalf of

Awareness Center
(Machon Toda`a)
Representative of the IAF in Israel


April 2005

Awareness center - Machon Toda`a would like to thank the following Israeli Non Governmental Organizations and individuals for the data and information they provided that enabled this report:

Nissan Ben Ami -Former founder and co-manager of Machon Toda`a - Awareness Center

Adv. Itai Frost - Member of the public prosecutor office, Former member of the interministerial committee regarding the issue of TIP.

Prof. Yaffa Berlovitch - Dep. of Literatures of the Jewish People,Bar-Ilan University.

Anat Gur - Psychotherapist, Manager of Anima institute.

Rita Chaikin - Anti-Trafficking Project Coordinator,
ISHA L`ISHA - Haifa Feminist Center
118 Arlozorov Street,
Haifa 33726
Tel: +972-4-8650977, Fax:+972-4-8641072
Hotline: +972-4-8640598
Email: ishahfc@netvision.net.il


Machon Toda`a would also like to thank:

• MK Zehava Galon and the team of the Parliamentary investigation committee that has issued its final report on the 25 of Mars 2005.
  
  
• The Ministry fo Health ,The Levinski 108 Clinic for submitting its annual report.
  
  
• The Ministry of Justice, Miri Sharon for submitting the MOJ report of TIP and Prostituion court cases terminated by a verdict.
  
  
• The Israeli Police for submitting the annual statistics.
  
  

National NGOs report to the annual UN Convention on Human Rights: Evaluation of National Authorities activities and Actual facts on the Trafficking in Persons for the purpose of prostitution, local prostitution and the sex industry

April 2005