The Confusion between Pimping and Trafficking
Sex trade businessmen benefit when they obscure the meanings of words. Some words hide the truth. Just as torture is named enhanced interrogation, and logging…
Online and Technology-facilitated Trafficking in Human Beings
Internet, and information communication technology (ICT) more generally, play a major role in shaping our lives. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the extent to…
No Country for Whistleblowers: A response to the culture-wide promotion of prostitution in New Zealand
Renée Gerlich is writer based in New Zealand. Her book Out of the Fog: On Feminism, Politics and Coming Alive, is due to be published…
Holbeck: A Case Study of Hell
Holbeck is a case study of hell. It is misogyny and objectification in the legal system, a triumph of men’s rights activists. Alan Caton, the…
The Implementation of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, Part IV – An Interim Review
This report was written to consider implementation of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017. Following its enactment, the Government announced that a review of Part IV which relates to prostitution was to be carried out within three years.
The Racial Roots of Human Trafficking
This Article explores the role of race in the prostitution and sex trafficking of people of color, particularly minority youth, and the evolving legal and social responses in the United States.
The Declaration on Women’s Sex Based Rights
The Women’s Human Rights Campaign has built a global network with the “aim to represent the total breadth of the human female experience across races…
Legalize prostitution? Hell no
The shock of reading that state legislators are calling for the legalization of prostitution in our state still leaves me shaking. Sens. Julia Salazar and…
Consent, coercion, and culpability: Is prostitution stigmatized work or an exploitive and violent practice rooted in sex, race, and class inequality?
Author: Rachel Moran and Melissa Farley
Date: 2018
How litigation laid the ground for accountability after #MeToo
It was legal recognition that broke the rule of impunity that the more power a man has, the more sex he can exact from those…
Legalising prostitution will increase trafficking: Maliwal
NEW DELHI: Calling prostitution as the “worst form of slavery”, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Tuesday came down heavily on pro-sex…