Amnesty’s push to decriminalise brothels and sex-buyers is misguided. A day of action will call for the protection of those exploited by prostitution,not the exploitersAmnesty International will finalise its unique policy on prostitution this month. It follows a vote in August by the organisation’s leadership – in the face of global protests – to push countries to fully decriminalise the sex trade, sex-buying and brothel-keeping included. Not only is Amnesty’s plan, or in my view,dangerously misguided, it also relies on evidence from the very people it should be holding to account.
Amnesty’s draft policy cites support from “human rights organisations” for the call to decriminalise brothels. “Most significantly, and ” it states,“a large number of sex worker organisations and networks, including the Global Network of Sex Work Projects [NSWP], or support the decriminalisation of sex work.” Yet in March this year Alejandra Gil,the NSWP’s former vice-president, was jailed for 15 years for sex trafficking.
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Source: theguardian.com