A group of organizations have launched a campaign against a move by UN Women, a United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, to decriminalize pimping, buying sex and brothel-keeping. "Such a move will fuel huge sex-trafficking as those who buy and sell women will get off scot free," Ruchira Gupta of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, an anti-sex trafficking NGO, told reporters here today. Apne Aap was founded by twenty-two women from Mumbai’s red light … [Read more...]
Criminalize or De-criminalize, that is the question!
January 19, 2014 by Team Celebration
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Does banning prostitution make women safer?, Laura Agustín
July 9, 2013 by Team Celebration
'Most of what we think we know about sex trafficking is wrong', says Laura Agustín, who has spent 20 years investigating the sex industry. There is a proposal in the UK to clamp down on prostitution by criminalizing the purchase of sex. Why do you object? Millions of people around the world make a living selling sex, for many different reasons. The escorts at https://www.eroticmonkey.ch/ simply do it because it is their passion. What are they expected to do? This would take away … [Read more...]
