Where are you going to seek asylum?
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Women
and minors: be aware of the risk of being sexually aggressed or ”sold” as
prostitutes though you paid for the trafficker.
We have numerous reports about women and sometimes
also children who have been forced into prostitution and slavery
on the way to Europe. This happens sometimes even when the
women have already paid for the journey. It happens on all
routes, be it in Morocco/Spain, Libya/Italy, Turkey/Greece,
the Balkans, Ukraine/Poland, Czech Republic/Germany etc. Not
only a trafficker can sell you as prostitute, but also his ”employees” or ”partners”,
sometimes even to the traffickers' unknowing. There is a huge ”European
market” for female and child prostitutes. Therefore,
try to travel with men you can rely on. Do not accept to be
separated from them. Do not get lured by offers for ”household”, ”waitress” or
other jobs. According to some reports, there is also a remarkable
risk of getting sexually abused by policemen or border guards
in some transit countries, e.g. in the north-west of Africa.
Some of these risks also exist when a refugee uses a travel document issued
on another, a wrong name. This practice will become even more common: It
is not easy to falsify a high tech visa. But it is easy to falsify a standard
passport or to bribe somebody to get an original passport on a wrong name.
In this case like in all others we recommend to reveal the identity once
access
to an asylum procedure has been granted. By the way: If a refugee reveals
his real identity after the illegal entry he cannot be punished for illegal
entry
(Article 31 of the Geneva Convention).
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