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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.
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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 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 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 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.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex workers fight against compulsory registration and identification in GermanyGermany's parliament will likely pass new legislation today that severely infringes on sex worker rights and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHelping sex workers help themselvesLaws criminalising prostitution have done incredible damage to sex workers over the years but they have never...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex work, utopia, and what we can learn from prison abolitionismGroups calling for the abolition of prostitution are not, despite what they might think, following in the best...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySouth Korea: sex workers fighting the law and law enforcementSouth Korea introduced a raft of new laws against sex work in 2004. These repressive policies are now up for...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWe support Jeremy Corbyn on decriminalisationProstitution is rising along with poverty in Britain. To protect women both the criminalisation of sex work and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe power of putas: the Brazilian prostitutes’ movement in times of political reactionFaced with regressive policies grounded in moral panics over sexual exploitation and trafficking, the Brazilian...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex work activism in South Africa: a struggle for visibilityOrganising sex workers to protest injustice, create safe spaces, and support one another is a difficult job. One...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe creative protests of sex workers in ArgentinaSex work in Argentina is legal, but since 2011 the anti-trafficking agenda has increasingly threatened that status....
