Trafficking Policy
Research Project:
Examining the Effects of
U.S. Trafficking Laws and Policies
Labor Migration - Sex Work - Trafficking Laws and Policies - Forced
Labor & Slavery
This site collects and presents research and commentary regarding
the effects of United States Trafficking Laws and Policies in the
US and internationally. The Trafficking Policy Research Project provides
an outline of alternative analyses and strategies for the global problems
of trafficking and forced labor, prioritizing welfare of sex workers
in the context of migrant labor. Trafficking in the sex industry is
examined within the range of abuses within the sex industries with
goals of decriminalization and sex industry reform. Links are primarily
from Global Alliance Against Traffic
in Women, Network of Sexwork
Projects , the International
Human Rights Law Group, and Human
Rights Watch.
"Sex
Trafficking" in San Francisco
Visit this link which highlights issues specific
to San Francisco.
Current
Issues and Reports: Trafficking Laws and Policies
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Global
Alliance Against Traffic in Women Issues Report on Collateral
Damage of Anti-Trafficking Policies
This report
reviews the impact of anti-trafficking measures on human rights
in 8 countries: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, India,
Nigeria, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Each country chapter provides an overview of human trafficking,
the current legal framework concerning all aspects of anti-trafficking
efforts, specific laws and policies and their implications on
key groups of people, and a critical analysis of the human rights
impact of these measures specifically on women. This anthology
emphasises the critical need for a re-assessment of anti-trafficking
initiatives around the globe in order that human rights do not
get written off as ‘collateral damage’ in combating
human trafficking.
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Resisting
The Repression HR 3887: When The Alliance of Progressives, Christian
and Feminist Fundamentalists Attempt to Federalize Crimes Involving
Voluntary Commerical Sex (November 2007-January 2008)
Human rights activist object to the recent version of the TVPRA (in
concert with the US Department of Justice). The House version of HR
3887 puts all commercial sex under the jurisdiction of the Federal
government.
DMSC,
Indian Sex Workers' Organization and Self-Regulatory Model to Combat
Trafficking (Launched Dec 2007)
"Ever since 1997, when DMSC activists articulated the issue at
the First National Conference of Sex Workers, the Organisation has
grappled with the problem of underage girls trafficked into sex work
sites and of unwilling women duped/coerced/forced into sex work. DMSC
is active in addressing and challenging the structural issues that
frame the everyday reality of sexworkers lives as they relate to their
material deprivation and social exclusion. From this standpoint, it
stands against any form of exploitation and infringement of rights
of human beings that includes sexworkers and their children. DMSC
is explicit, too, about its stand vis-a-vis forced or coerced labour
in any form- if sexwork is work like any other, then it must be subject
to certain norms and conditions- decided upon and enforced by the
workers in the trade- that must be fulfilled before anyone can start
as a sexworkers..."
Summary
Report:Human Rights Impact of Anti-trafficking Interventions: Developing
an Assessment Tool (July-07):
"In recent years, non-governmental organisations, specialists
and advocates in the field of trafficking in human beings, migrants’
rights and sex workers’ rights and related fields have observed
with growing concern various negative consequences of anti-trafficking
interventions." Published
by HOM, Aim for Human Rights
Sex
at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
by Laura María Agustín
This
groundbreaking book sets out to explode several myths: that
selling sex is completely different from any other kind of
work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and
that the multitude of people out to save them are without
self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case
against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked'
does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the
'rescue industry' disempowers them. Based on extensive research
amongst migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the
Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently,
says Agustín, migrants make rational choices to travel
and work in the sex industry. Although they are treated like
a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global
economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential
reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly
important relationship between sex markets, migration and
the desire for social justice.
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Taking
the Pledge is a 13-minute film featuring sex workers from
Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Mali, Thailand and more! They
describe the problems created by the 'anti-prostitution pledge'
required to receive USAID and PEPFAR funds.
Produced by the Network of Sex Work Projects. http://www.nswp.org
In English, Khmer, Thai, French, Portuguese and Bengali, with
English subtitles. Watch in full-screen mode to read the subtitles.
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Recent
Media Reports: Trafficking and Moral Panic
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