Evaluation of Norwegian legislation criminalising the buying of sexual services
Norwegian law effective in reducing demand for prostitution and reducing trafficking.
Prostitution is created and supported by a culture of men’s perceived entitlement to sex
Elliot Rodger wrote that he was motivated to kill because of his anger that women were not available to him for sex. This attitude is…
The Somaly Mam Story: What We Still Know About Sex Trafficking
Taina Bien-Aime, CATW, Huffington Post June 2, 2014 For those of us who know and have worked with Somaly Mam throughout the years, the Newsweek cover story about her…
“It’s inconceivable to me that Amnesty International or any other organization that respects human rights would endorse slave masters who buy young girls and put them into involuntary servitude to be sex slaves,” said Jimmy Carter.
After reviewing approaches to prostitution, Jimmy Carter concluded that ” the most important policy change will be to increase penalties for pimps and consumers and…
Captivity is mental
“There’s a lot of people that go through tremendous pain, and just because you’re not chained up and you’re not locked in the basement doesn’t…
NY To Protect Sexually Exploited Girls
NY is about to pass a law decriminalizing trafficked girls rather than arresting them. All states now need to stop arresting any woman in prostitution…
The European parliament has voted in favour of new prostitution laws that criminalize the sex buyer and seller but not the prostituted person
The vote passed Feb 26, 2014 with a large majority of 343 to 139. Mary Honeyball, the Labour MEP for London who put forward the…
A short documentary film about the trafficking and prostitution of Native Women and youth in the Duluth and Thunder Bay harbors
Making Waves, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, February 22, 2014.
Members of France’s Parliament vote to support law criminalizing sex buyers
On November 29, 2013, French MPs voted in support of a version of the Swedish law on prostitution that criminalizes the purchase of sex with…
“Only a world without prostitution is human” – German feminist Alice Schwarzer
In Germany, where prostitution and brothels are legal, 90 celebrities (from both the right and the left wing) recently signed a petition asking to change…
PRE opposes UN’s promotion of legal prostitution
A woman inside this Nevada legal brothel said, “No one really enjoys getting sold. It’s like you sign a contract to be raped.” Evidence suggests…
Proposed French law garners support from most of the public but an aggressive sexist response from 343 sex buyers
France is considering criminalizing sex buyers, while decriminalizing women in prostitution, as Sweden does now. The proposed law also provides support for the rehabilitation of…
Strip Clubs: Where Prostitution and Trafficking Happen
In hundreds of research interviews, sex buyers tell us that they can always find minor girls in strip clubs. A 15-year-old girl who had gone…
Higher rates of prostitution among Native American women expected after U.S. budgets cuts
Cruel U.S. budget cuts (sequester) will result in increased homelessness, devastating lack of educational opportunities and jobs, and increased prostitution of Native American young women….
This is what a pimp looks like
“I was a good pimp” says James Lipton. Read more here. Don’t buy into racist stereotypes about pimps. There is a class and race hierarchy among pimps…
Austerity programs cause brutal cuts in public services and result in more prostitution
Copyright © 2013. Angelos Tzortzinis. All Rights Reserved “A prostitute who bears scars on her arm from the time she tried to kill herself in…
Beyonce is not a role model for young women
Today, the cultural sexualization of girls increasingly overlaps with and merges into prostitution. The most visible example of sexual objectification today is Beyonce Knowles. “Variations…
California’s Red Light Abatement Act shuts down motels that were assisting pimps
A judge ordered two Oakland, California motels to close for a year and to pay hefty fines after being sued by the city for decades…
SAVE THE DATE: Protest Backpage.com’s Facilitation of Sex Trafficking
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) in partnership with Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) and other co-sponsors will hold our second protest in front…
Village Voice is no ally in the fight against human trafficking
Just as the argument that the regulation of prostitution makes it safer for women is patently misleading, the argument that Backpage.com should keep its “adult…