Amnesty International To Vote On Sex Work Decriminlisation Move

[Davidontour]

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Well done Amnesty International...but the level headed among us realise that meaningful work needs to be done with regard trafficking etc for this stance to hold up to scrutiny....and to stop the nay sayers from using the argument that criminalisation of the client is the only way forward.

Client criminalisation has nothing to do with trafficking. It was introduced in Sweden as a feminist issue, in Canada last year as a self confessed attempt to stamp out prostitution and here in the North as a moral crusade with trafficking as a wafer thin excuse.

Amnesty's support is for the New Zealand decriminalisation model, introduced in 2003. Since then there has been no increase in sex trafficking, whereas in Sweden there has. The anti SW movement can no longer claim that criminalisation fights trafficking. Their push for criminalisation is all about hatred of men who buy sex and an even greater hatred of women who sell it. That fact became much clearer today. At least we can have some honesty in the debate now.

[Curvaceous Kate]

This is a huge slap in the face for sex work haters worldwide, but particularly here, with the historic vote being taken in Dublin itself. This decision is based on years of research and consultation with sex workers, making it a huely important landmark.

Perhaps Fitzgerald now realises that sex worker rights and safety are actually more important than the fact that she doesn't approve of sex work. Perhaps she can see why Westminster and Scotland rejected the failed Swedish Model last year. Maybe she realises that Amnesty know way more about the subject than she ever will. Nobody should hold their breath though.

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[Banger]

Brilliant news. Well done Amnesty International for coming to a measured, rational conclusion. And in our very own backyard.

Surely this will have some influence on policy-makers, including our own.

[KevinACE]

The cold hard fact is sex workers earn a living and deserve to be protected, recognised and have rights. We might be slightly biased in our view as clients, but it's 2015, come on.
These politicians in power don't have any guts or honesty. They behave like sheep who bitch and slag each other off in the dail so I would not hold my breathe.

[xagerate]

Client criminalisation has nothing to do with trafficking. It was introduced in Sweden as a feminist issue, in Canada last year as a self confessed attempt to stamp out prostitution and here in the North as a moral crusade with trafficking as a wafer thin excuse.

Amnesty's support is for the New Zealand decriminalisation model, introduced in 2003. Since then there has been no increase in sex trafficking, whereas in Sweden there has. The anti SW movement can no longer claim that criminalisation fights trafficking. Their push for criminalisation is all about hatred of men who buy sex and an even greater hatred of women who sell it. That fact became much clearer today. At least we can have some honesty in the debate now.

I didn't say client criminalisation and trafficking are linked.
I was making 2 different points
(1)The trafficking issue needs to be positively dealt with, so their (Amnestys) support of decriminalising the industry is harder to attack.
(2)Criminalisation isn't the way that they (Amnesty)see to fix whatever other problems exist....unlike the "nay sayers"

[Clueless]

The Question is will this change Frances Fitzgerald mind.

Well she can't continue to dismiss it as before..

[rubberlover]

Ireland doesn't do the right thing. Will have to be pulled kicking and screaming into line with Europe. Look at past class acts in Europe. What's normal there is abnormal here. But you never know.