Andrea M. Bertone, Associate Director, College Park Scholars International Studies

THE SUMMER/FALL 2003 ISSUE of The Brown Journal of World Affairs (Journal) provided a forum for academics, healthcare professionals, policy makers, and practitioners to present the most pressing challenges to the combating of international trafficking in persons. Although the section of the journal was entitled “Sex Trafficking,” nearly all authors raised the important point that trafficking can be perpetrated not only for sexual exploitation (prostitution, sex tourism, mail-order brides, pornography, and militarized prostitution), but for other forms of labor exploitation, as well as for human organs and slavery (factory, agriculture, domestic servitude, and street begging). The authors agree that trafficking is a severe violation of human rights, a human security and a traditional state security issue, a global health risk, a perversion of the economic principles of supply and demand, and a highly politicized international issue which requires a great deal of collaboration, cooperation, and coordination to combat. The Dutch Ambassador, and Personal Representative of the Chairman in Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Daan Everts, argues correctly in his article that trafficking needs to be tackled.

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