Thursday, 28 April 2011 at 16:03
1. The global aspect of human trafficking
2. The controversy about legal prostitution.
AWAN strongly opposes legalized prostitution and puts forward this argument: A harm-reduction model that claims to help prostituted women by moving them indoors to legal brothels, not only would not reduce the harm to them, but would disguise the real issues. . . Those promoting prostitution rarely address class, race, or ethnicity as factors that make women even more vulnerable. . . . Although many well-meaning people think that decriminalization simply means protecting prostituted women from arrest, it also refers, dangerously, to the decriminalization of johns and pimps. In this way prostitution is normalized, Johns multiply, and pimps and traffickers become legitimated entrepreneurs”
AWAN condemns the lack of police response, another global feature regarding human trafficking. The message also is universal: These women are not worthy of protection.
At the core of the matter is the fact that too many people regard prostitution as “voluntary”, too many men think women want to be in the sex industry. This assumption is by itself wrong. Do men ask prostitutes if they work out of there own accord? Are they even interested to know?
But how can anyone believe that minors and children are in the sex industry voluntarily? How sick would it be to even think that? And how sick is it, not to report child prostitution.
As far as human trafficking is concerned there is no point in waiting till the controversy about legal prostitution will be solved. It hardly will. To change the police response, to change the attitude in any given society is a more viable concept.
More: http://www.awanbc.ca/aboutus.html#Oppose
If your are interested in the situation in the US go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/opinion/24kristof.html?_r=1&ref=nicholasdkristof
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