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- Document number
- 1693
- Date
- 2008
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- Title
- It is Cool to Know More. Institutional Care and the Risks of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
- Author/publisher
- La Strada Czech Republic
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- LSI publication;
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- Keywords
- People In Need foundation,
Sex work;
Clients,
Women's rights;
Women;
Control and regulation of prostitution,
Protection,
Punishable forms of prostitution,
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- Summary
- The publication It’s cool .. to know more is one of the outputs from the project The Prevention of Human
Trafficking among at Risk Groups with Special Emphasis on Institutional Care in the Czech Republic
and Slovakia, which was implemented by La Strada Czech Republic in collaboration
with the Slovak branch of the People In Need foundation between April 2006 and March 2008.
The project has two basic parts: practice and research. The practical part was aimed at the implementation
of preventative and educational activities targeting girls, i.e. clients, and the staff of institutional care facilities
in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Those activities included preventative sessions, counselling, training
and the production of materials on methodologies and preventative measures.
The key part of the research focused on collecting information on girls who have experience of institutional
care and also of the provision of paid sexual services, on the circumstances that may influence the girls’
strategies, and on the workings and characteristics of the institutional care system, which can have a significant
impact on those strategies. Such information is essential if preventative activities targeted at that
specific group in the specific context of institutional care are to be based on reliable information, be capable
of implementation, and extend the opportunity for independent and informed decision-making as an alternative
to the often ineffectual approach of providing simplistic (moral) imperatives.
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