CNN -- A designer clothing store, a comic book store, a tattoo parlor and a This unusual window display shocked shoppers at a busy Tel Aviv mall last week when among the run-of-the-mill shops, they came across a group of young women standing in a storefront. Organizers said the campaign is designed to bring awareness to women trafficking. It aims to collect enough signatures to pressure the Israeli justice ministry to back legislation that makes it a crime for men to go to prostitutes.
This legislation is the next important step in the fight against women trafficking, said attorney Ori Keidar, one of the founders of the task force against the problem.
Keidar said the legislation is modeled after similar legislation in Sweden that has drastically reduced trafficking and prostitution. Over the past decade, about 10, women have been trafficked into Israel in what Keidar calls "modern slavery. The women are locked, beaten, raped, starved and forced to receive men a day days a year, according to the attorney. About three years ago, Israeli police greatly reduced women trafficking by pouring resources into the problem.
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