Event | Place | Predictions | What did research show? |
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2012 Summer Olympics | London, United Kingdom | Increase in sex work as well as trafficking of men, women, and children for sex trafficking, forced labor, or both[22, 23] | No increase in trafficking - London Met police investigated one case of human trafficking for sexual exploitation[24] |
Majority of female sex workers surveyed say they had fewer customers during the Olympics, and only 7% came to London to seek clients attracted by the Olympics[25] | |||
2010 FIFA World Cup | South Africa | 40 000 – 100 000 foreign sex workers or women/children would be trafficked into South Africa and increase in sex work[26, 27] | No increase in the supply or demand of sex work during the World Cup[28, 29] |
No increase in trafficking – the Department of Justice & Constitutional Development did not find one case of trafficking during the World Cup[30] | |||
2010 Winter Olympics | Vancouver, Canada | Expected increase in trafficking for Olympic Games[31] | No significantly increased odds in reports of new, youth or trafficked sex workers (zero reports) in the Olympic period[32] |
2006 FIFA World Cup | Germany | 40 000 sex workers/women will be trafficked into Germany for the World Cup[33, 34]. | |
Evidence of 5 cases of trafficking related to the World Cup[37] | |||
Some sex workers and brothel-owners express disappointment with lack of clientele[38] | |||
2004 Summer Olympics | Athens, Greece | Increase in trafficking of women and children for Olympics[39] | Inconclusive, as no report produced on trafficking and Olympics[35, 40] |
An International Organisation for Migration database shows that the organisation assisted 7 victims of trafficking in Athens, but no evidence of links to the Olympics[35] |