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Criminalising sex workers’ clients makes trafficking worse

Andrew Wallis, the CEO of Unseen, tells us what he really thinks about attempts to introduce Nordic-style legislation in Britain

Criminalising sex workers’ clients makes trafficking worse
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Andrew Wallis is founder and CEO of Unseen, a UK-based charity in England that has worked to end human trafficking and modern slavery since 2007. Beyond Trafficking and Slavery caught up with Andrew to ask him why so many anti-trafficking organisations, including Unseen, do not take an explicit stand on sex work, and what the consequences of that non-position might be. We also asked him about recent attempts led by Labour MP Diana Johnson to get the Nordic model of sex work introduced into the UK Parliament. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.