The Palermo Protocol has targeted sex workers since day one, and whenever sex workers having spoken up against it since they have been systematically ignored. How is that ‘caring for the victims’?
Anti-trafficking policies claim to support vulnerable women, however their implementation leads to imprisonment and deportation of migrant sex workers in Europe.
The criminalisation of clients does nothing to protect sex workers from police harassment, border guards, racism, transphobia, or sexual assault. That’s a problem.
Austerity has increased poverty, particularly for women, while the rise of the far right has exacerbated hostilities against migrants and LGBT people, catching sex workers in a web of intersectional vulnerability.
Austerity has increased poverty, particularly for women, while the rise of the far right has exacerbated hostilities against migrants and LGBT people, catching sex workers in a web of intersectional vulnerability.
CATW’s opposition to Amnesty International’s ‘draft policy on sex work’ is misguided. A coalition of sex workers’ organisations and advocates fills in the gaps in this open letter to AI.
CATW’s opposition to Amnesty International’s ‘draft policy on sex work’ is misguided. A coalition of sex workers’ organisations and advocates fills in the gaps in this open letter to AI.
