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xagerate
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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.
2014 in Northern Ireland:
Number of reported attacks on sex workers 70
Number of sex trafficking cases ZERO