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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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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCOVID-19 shines a red light on sex workers’ lack of protection in EuropeEuropean governments look the other way when we ask them how they will help sex workers survive the coming weeks and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPolitics is the heart of all sex worker organisingSex workers’ organisations cannot content themselves with providing services to their communities. They must...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDebunking ‘Super Bowl sex trafficking’Effective outreach changed how the media reported on ‘sex trafficking’ for the 2018 Super Bowl. Will the lesson stick?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRepressing sex work in France in the name of women’s rights and migrants’ controlFrance’s shift to the Nordic model of sex work is a sign of deeper issues lurking just beneath the surface.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat we talk about when we talk about traffickingBeing a feminist anti-trafficking organisation means being against a lot of what passes for ‘anti-trafficking’ these days.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex workers seek rights-minded funderFunding sex worker activism is no longer taboo.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe path to prioritising safety for sex workers in CaliforniaThe groups that came together to transform sex worker safety in California only agreed on one thing: violence...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat’s so unacceptable about sex work? A framework for sex worker rights advocacyAn ILO framework can be used to push for including sex work within labour protection systems. Let’s put it to use.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRights, rescues and resistance in the global movement for sex workers’ rights – introducing the seriesThe rights of sex workers are slowly gaining more recognition, but far too many still need to keep their heads down...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySelling sex amidst the Philippine drug warSex workers in the Philippines have always been vulnerable to police violence. President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘Send them back’: migrant sex workers deported from EuropeAnti-trafficking policies claim to support vulnerable women, however their implementation leads to imprisonment and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIt’s time for the anti-trafficking sector to stand up for decriminalisation of sex workUK politicians want to prevent trafficking by criminalising the clients of sex workers. The anti-trafficking sector...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe two-fronted fight of sex workers against traffickingSex workers are caught between exploitation in the industry and the misguided policies designed to help them.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRights not rescue for migrant sex workersThe criminalisation of clients does nothing to protect sex workers from police harassment, border guards, racism,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTalking trafficking with Jamaican sex workersSex workers face more abuse from clients and police than from ‘traffickers’, but addressing that would mean...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen cops help sex workers rather than harass themIn one of the few countries in the world to decriminalise sex work, an unlikely alliance is now making it safer.
