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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryScandals in sex worker rescue shelters: is ‘awful’ distracting from ‘lawful’?How should we channel concern over the growing number of anti-trafficking scandals?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe Sexelance: red lights on wheelsA converted ambulance, the Sexelance is a mobile sex clinic offering harm reduction to the street sex workers of Copenhagen.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPutting sex workers’ rights at the centreRegardless of your view on sex work, denying that it is a job only harms those engaging in it.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex work, labour unfreedom, and the law‘Free’ labour exists when it is guarded by a system of rights and protections. This places the vast majority of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAlmost legal: migrant sex work in New ZealandNew Zealand is lauded as the world's only country to fully decriminalise sex work, yet a catch makes that of little...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex workers organising for changeSex workers around the world are teaming up to accomplish what so few policymakers are willing to do: make their...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe false promise of the Nordic model of sex workThe model of criminalising only the clients of sex workers is becoming increasingly popular, but what do those...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen is sex work 'decent work'?The world is aiming to have ‘decent work for all’ by 2030. What could that look like for one of the most stigmatised...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIf you control movement, you control sex workersSex work in Switzerland isn’t in itself illegal, but for irregular migrants working in the industry that is little comfort.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFreeloaders, blackmailers and lost souls: rescued sex trafficking survivors in the hands of the assistanceWomen rescued from traumatic experiences need empathy and emotional support. Too often, what they receive instead is...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryModern Vietnamese slaves in the UK: are raid and rescue operations appropriate?The arbitrary and controversial categorisation of people as modern slaves in need of rescue does not reflect the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRescued from rights: the misogyny of anti-traffickingFor some sex workers subjected to forced ‘rescue’, the line between care and harm is very thin. What...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryUsing an intersectional approach to raid and rescueRaid and rescue relies on a simplistic understanding of violence and vulnerability. If we are serious about ending...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryInterview: forced rescue and humanitarian traffickingMany anti-trafficking oragnisations prioritise donor preferences over actually improving the lives of 'vitcims'.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCritical reflections on raid and rescue operations in New DelhiAccompanying a raid and rescue operation poses difficult questions for those involved, pushing the boundaries...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRescue by ‘force’ or rescue by ‘choice’The dividing line between consent and coercion, freedom and force, is far blurrier than many of us tend to think.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeyond ‘raid and rescue’: time to acknowledge the damage being doneRaid and rescue operations are widely portrayed as heroic efforts to save the innocent from the evil. But, as this...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryImproving anti-trafficking strategies: why sex workers should be involvedSex work and human trafficking are often conflated, but what if – instead of voiceless victims – sex workers were...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe Olympics won’t be a boon for sex workers, and not because of Zika virusFears of increased ‘sex trafficking’ during the World Cup in Brazil proved unfounded. Could the lessons learned in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryGerman law endangers sex workersThe ‘prostitutes protection law’, passed 7 June by the German parliament, is a huge step backwards for sex workers rights.
