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Military R&R (rest and relaxation) A 2005 paper by Theresa Squatrito of the University of Washington on changes in the US military policy on prostitution states: Past military operations have benefited from the gender-based exploitation of local women. Exploiting local women communicates to locals the military’s strength and encourages host submissiveness. Military bases also depend on local communities to sustain the vitality and morale of troops with outlets for rest and relaxation (R&R), for which women are prostituted. A paper delivered by Jean Enriquez of the Coalition against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP) at a conference in Lima in 2006 states: In Korea alone, 5000 Filipinas and even more Russian women are in prostitution around the US military bases. Competition, meanwhile, creates the pressure to “import” younger and younger women from more “exotic” backgrounds, thus victimizing our indigenous or aboriginal girls. Globalization, Militarism and Sex Trafficking She also asserts the US bases in Korea act as a magnet for the trafficking of women from the Philippines. There are reports that Filipinas are concentrated around the bases in Dongduchon-shi and Pyont'aekshi where around 50 military recreation centres are established in each, and where American military service men usually go. These centres are locally called "foreigners club" but are actually, bars. An unwritten policy within the US military force is to "keep the men happy," as it considers sexualised recreation vital for the "morale" of troops. During the stay of military forces in the Philippines, around 17,000 women have been prostituted in Olongapo City alone, which is the site of the largest US military base outside the US itself. UN forces involvement in procurement of sex and further articles at:
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=382507 Here, a woman was sacked for whistle-blowing by an American company whose branch in Salisbury, Wiltshire, dealt with the contracts of the American officers working for the international police force in Bosnia.
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