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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionIndia’s Supreme Court rules in favour of sex workers, and women rise up
Sex workers in Hyderabad rise up against their forced detention following court’s ruling
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe massage parlour as a sacred space
Poor Asian women have been the targets of American evangelicals for over a century. Are their lives not also sacred?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisExit denied: women losing the right to leave in the Philippines
The global campaign against trafficking has proved more powerful than the constitution in the Philippines
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: VideoWebinar: Time to get off the fence on sex workers' rights
Why 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’ rights
Jean 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 Philippines
With 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’ rights
Supporting 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 Portugal
Anti-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 US
The 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 work
The 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: FeatureThe anti-trafficking movement has left sex workers behind
Anti-trafficking NGOs need to take a stance on sex work – or they will just keep harming us.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewCriminalising sex workers’ clients makes trafficking worse
Andrew 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 work
Anti-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’ rights
You 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 work
A 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’ rights
Sex 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 them
Sex workers and other marginalised communities are in desperate need of rights and direct cash assistance, no...