[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 139]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       U.N. PROSTITUTION PROTOCOL

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, imagine a woman filled with hope accepting a 
new job in a big city. Promises of freedom from manual labor and better 
income have lured her away from her family. When she meets her new 
boss, she is crushed. She is given tight clothes to wear, condoms for 
her customers, she is beaten, raped, locked in a trailer and forced to 
have sex with whoever walks in the trailer.
  Unfortunately, this happens every day in some parts of Asia, Africa, 
Latin America and, yes, even the United States.
  Many of us were surprised to learn that the administration's 
Interagency Council on Women has apparently been supporting a move to 
alter the U.N. Convention on Transnational Organized Crime to accept 
so-called ``voluntary'' prostitution. They want to adopt what is called 
the Netherland's definition of prostitution, which excludes anything 
that cannot be proven to be coerced.
  Mr. Speaker, this would make it virtually impossible to prosecute sex 
traffickers in nations adopting this protocol. We should oppose the 
forced Europeanization of America by United Nations' bureaucrats using 
the failed social policies of the Netherlands.
  I hope it is not true, and I hope this will be stopped.

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