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  • More Than 1,000 Open Prostitution Cases In Brooklyn Are Going To Be Wiped From The Files

    January 28, 2021 |

    Buzzfeed |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Brooklyn district attorney is prosecuting few prostitution cases and has dismissed 262 cases that he and sex worker advocates say are a byproduct of law enforcement unfairly targeting trans women and women of color. The DA is working toward dismissing more than 1,000 cases and declining to prosecute all new cases. While legislative action is needed to achieve full decriminalization and to void the 25,000 criminal records that date to 1975 in Brooklyn, the DA exercised his discretion based on the harm done by arresting women for sex work and on related loitering charges.

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  • The ex-monk and the Thai sex mafia: helping victims find another way

    January 04, 2021 |

    Global Geneva Magazine |

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    Response Location: Thailand

    Wat Arun Rajvaram Community Learning Centre, founded on Buddhist precepts by a former monk, has trained more than 250 Thai young women for work as nurse assistants, jobs aimed at keeping them out of the illicit sex trade, forced labor, and arranged marriages. High school graduates, ages 16 to 19, are selected in groups of 15-20 per year, mostly on scholarships paid by donors. They typically come from rural towns where poor families often sell their daughters to traffickers. Nearly all graduate and are guaranteed jobs at hospitals and health centers in Bangkok or elsewhere in Thailand.

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  • NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price

    December 07, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York Police Department sex-crimes enforcement officially shifted away from arresting people selling sex to those buying it and those in the large-scale trafficking business. At the same time, the Human Trafficking Intervention Court was created to divert sex workers' criminal cases away from conviction and toward social services. The reality, however, is that police officers' overtime income gives them incentives to make high volumes of arrests of sex workers and buyers in flimsy, low-level cases that get plea-bargained down, but which skew heavily against people of color.

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  • Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground

    December 17, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    The passage of the 2018 Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act was meant to hold accountable the online platforms where sex trafficking and sex work took place, but a year into its existence, it has shown negative, unintended consequences. The legislation has effectively shown an impact in moving sex trafficking offline, but experts now say it has moved onto the street, making it harder to track and catch.

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  • Sisters support Nigeria's migrants traumatized by trafficking

    May 30, 2019 |

    Global Sisters Report |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Benin City

    Nigeria’s Committee for the Support of Dignity of Women has helped hundreds of human trafficking victims with temporary shelter, economic aid, and reconciliation with their families. The faith-based program visits schools to warn youth of the dangers of trafficking if they migrate to other countries to flee Nigeria’s poverty. For those who have fallen prey to traffickers and returned home, the program gives them the support they need, including the means to start their own businesses, so that they can again live sustainably and safely in their homeland.

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  • Elsa and Nosipho: they both sell sex for a living, but in opposite worlds

    December 06, 2018 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    In many countries, sex work is illegal which means that those working in the industry have very few rights when it comes to sexual abuse. Amsterdam is one of the few places where this line of work is legal, however, and because of this, workers not only have rights, but are able to also advocate for better practices.

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  • A Dutch brothel where women work for themselves

    June 15, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    My Red Light is a brothel in Amsterdam run by sex workers. While sex work is legal in the country, exploitation and human trafficking is still pervasive. However, My Red Light tries to counter this by only hiring “people who have been thoroughly vetted to ensure they are not being trafficked, pimped or exploited.”

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  • How sexual assistants are helping disabled Czechs fulfil their ‘right to sex'

    June 07, 2017 |

    Euronews |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic

    An organization in the Czech Republic has hired "sexual assistants to help disabled Czechs explore their sexuality and satisfy their sexual needs" as part of an initiative to decrease the stigma around people with disabilities and the topic of sexuality. The initiative has received some community pushback but has gained support from the government’s Interior Ministry – and in other Western countries, some governments have gone so far as to also offer financial support.

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  • Can Sex Work Help Heal Trauma and Anxiety?

    June 07, 2017 |

    Vice |

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    Response Location: United States

    For individuals with severe social anxiety, been victims of rape or abuse, or have disabilities they may never have had a sexual experience. Sex workers or surrogates can offer a trusting environment to help these individuals explore their sexuality and help them to heal.

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  • What It Takes to Get Women Out of Prison—and Stay Out

    January 12, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans

    In New Orleans, the organization Woman With A Vision has been advocating for and supporting woman of color who have been involved with the justice system. They have worked to decriminalize sex work and created their own diversion program after realizing the racial bias of the district attorney's program - 80 women have completed the program so far, with more to come.

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