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Papers by Antonina Dyk

Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 2013

Near the beautiful Adriatic coast of Italy, outside the cities of Foggia and Bari, nearly a thous... more Near the beautiful Adriatic coast of Italy, outside the cities of Foggia and Bari, nearly a thousand Polish workers experienced a nightmare. 1 Toiling fifteen hours a day, earning one euro per hour, and living in unsanitary barracks, 2 these Poles were not able to escape from the armed guards patrolling the fruit farms. 3 When the Polish workers working on these fields notified the police, Polish and Italian law enforcement agencies refused to act. 4 It was only after numerous victims voiced their concerns that Polish and Italian authorities began an investigation. 5 The facts of this case occurred in 2006, two years after Poland had entered the European Union and one year after Italy had ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings, which took place in Warsaw, Poland. 6 Despite ten years of the international community's efforts to combat human trafficking, the exploitation of men, women, and children has not abated. 7 Even though most nations have adopted legislation criminalizing 1. These facts are taken from the 2006 joint Polish and Italian operation, "Terra Promessa," which dismantled a trafficking network that recruited mainly Polish, but also Ukrainian, Algerian, and Italian citizens through newspaper ads to work on agricultural farms. Zbigniew Lasocik & Łukasz Wieczorek, Trafficking for Forced Labour in Poland, in TRAFFICKING FOR FORCED LABOUR AND LABOUR EXPLOITATION IN FINLAND, POLAND AND ESTONIA 165, 202 (Anniina Jokinen et al. eds., 2010), available at www.heuni.fi/Etusivu/Publications/1290610598184. The criminal network recruited 880 women and men to work on fruit farms. Urszula Kozłowska, Analiza statystyk dotyczących zjawiska handlu ludźmi [Analysis of the statistical data concerning the issue of trafficking in human beings], in

Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 2013

Near the beautiful Adriatic coast of Italy, outside the cities of Foggia and Bari, nearly a thous... more Near the beautiful Adriatic coast of Italy, outside the cities of Foggia and Bari, nearly a thousand Polish workers experienced a nightmare. 1 Toiling fifteen hours a day, earning one euro per hour, and living in unsanitary barracks, 2 these Poles were not able to escape from the armed guards patrolling the fruit farms. 3 When the Polish workers working on these fields notified the police, Polish and Italian law enforcement agencies refused to act. 4 It was only after numerous victims voiced their concerns that Polish and Italian authorities began an investigation. 5 The facts of this case occurred in 2006, two years after Poland had entered the European Union and one year after Italy had ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings, which took place in Warsaw, Poland. 6 Despite ten years of the international community's efforts to combat human trafficking, the exploitation of men, women, and children has not abated. 7 Even though most nations have adopted legislation criminalizing 1. These facts are taken from the 2006 joint Polish and Italian operation, "Terra Promessa," which dismantled a trafficking network that recruited mainly Polish, but also Ukrainian, Algerian, and Italian citizens through newspaper ads to work on agricultural farms. Zbigniew Lasocik & Łukasz Wieczorek, Trafficking for Forced Labour in Poland, in TRAFFICKING FOR FORCED LABOUR AND LABOUR EXPLOITATION IN FINLAND, POLAND AND ESTONIA 165, 202 (Anniina Jokinen et al. eds., 2010), available at www.heuni.fi/Etusivu/Publications/1290610598184. The criminal network recruited 880 women and men to work on fruit farms. Urszula Kozłowska, Analiza statystyk dotyczących zjawiska handlu ludźmi [Analysis of the statistical data concerning the issue of trafficking in human beings], in