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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: VideoWebinar: Time to get off the fence on sex workers' rightsWhy does the anti-trafficking sector hesitate to support sex workers' rights, and what could change that?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewFreedom Network USA now supports sex workers’ rightsJean Bruggeman goes deep to explain why her organisation is getting off the fence and is backing sex workers’ rights
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureInstitutionalised victimhood: the ‘progressive’ alternative for sex work in the PhilippinesWith a sex workers’ movement stifled and potential allies silenced, the conversation around the ‘Nordic model’ looks...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe common cause of drug reform and sex workers’ rightsSupporting sex workers’ rights shouldn’t feel like a reach for the drug reform movement. Both exist to reduce the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChoosing between access and sex workers’ rights in PortugalAnti-trafficking NGOs in Portugal have entered into a neoliberal bargain where political neutrality on sex workers’...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureFence-sitting and its discontents: the fear of taking a stand on sex work in the USThe terrain for sex worker activism in the United States has been shaped by the silence of those who fear the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThere is no neutral position on whether sex work is work'Neutrality’ is based on the assumptions of the anti-sex work camp, which makes abstention a political stance in its...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InvestigationLost in translation: do anti-trafficking organisations reflect their employees' views on commercial sex?What do staff at anti-trafficking organisations in the United Kingdom think about sex work? Are their personal...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy Freedom United supports the decriminalisation of sex workThe evidence is clear that to build resilience to human trafficking in the sex industry, decriminalisation is the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewCriminalising sex workers’ clients makes trafficking worseAndrew Wallis, the CEO of Unseen, tells us what he really thinks about attempts to introduce Nordic-style...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe importance of unpopularity: taking a position on law and policy on sex workAnti-trafficking work runs aground wherever it tries to avoid taking a position on sex work
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIt's time to get off the fence on sex workers’ rightsYou cannot effectively combat human trafficking within the commercial sex sector without taking a stand on basic...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewCausing harm while trying to help women in sex workA new campaign tries to educate well-meaning people on why they often end up harming sex workers, even when they're...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDon’t call it ‘sex trafficking’‘Sex trafficking’ isn’t a sub-category of human trafficking, but a rhetorical ploy designed to delegitimate sex work...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNow is the time to support sex workers’ rightsSex workers have suffered under the pandemic because most are excluded from both private and public support. Donors...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPhilanthrocapitalists stand in the way of direct aid, so we have no time for themSex workers and other marginalised communities are in desperate need of rights and direct cash assistance, no...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLong read: How the Nordic model in France changed everything for sex workersIn 2019, 10 sex workers were killed in France in the span of six months. Critics say that the Nordic model and its...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryShutting down India’s red-light districts won’t contain coronavirusClosing brothels in India would be a grand but empty gesture. It will only hide the state’s abandonment of migrants...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCOVID-19 illuminates discriminatory sex work policiesScotland, Ireland and New Zealand have dealt with sex workers very differently during the pandemic, and the results...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex workers’ response to the pandemic proves they aren’t society’s victimsSex workers have long been portrayed as victims of patriarchy and trafficking, but their quick mobilisation to...
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