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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisHow a war on porn is endangering US sex workers
Anti-sex-trafficking organisations are imposing their extreme religious views on all Americans
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: ReviewA sex worker reviews Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
The film claims to offer a progressive, sex-positive and feminist take on sex work. But is it good for sex workers?
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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...