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Aiming to
provide a useful and interactive source of information and debate, all
research for this website was done online. Here are links to some
of the key documents and organisations.
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Policy
Produced
by the European Parliament, Trafficking in Human Beings has an
excellent country-by country guide to prostitution in 2001(see p.
55 onwards)
In 1999 EUROPAP
and TAMPEP
produced these Regional
Reports outlining the situation, the main problems, national
health promotion projects in each country and making recommendations.
The
Mr A. de Graaf Foundation is the Dutch national centre for
research, documentation, public information, policy development
and advice on the issue of prostitution and related phenomena and
includes many indispensable
links
The World
Sex Guide provides information for sexual tourists, including
a constantly updated country-by-country guide to prostitution
status
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Anti-prostitution
Andrea
Dworkin writes of male dominance and prostitution in Prostitution
and Male Supremacy
Catherine MacKinnon puts sex work into a wider
context in Prostitution
and Civil Rights
Donna
Hughes writes about the dangers of legalising prostitution in Making
the Harm Visible
Melissa Farley's Prostitution
Research and Education website includes this Factsheet:
Prostitution and human rights abuses |
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Pro-prostitution
pressure groups
Joe Bindman & Jo
Doezema on Redefining
Prostitution as Sex Work on the International Agenda
The
International Union of Sex Workers campaigns for sex worker
rights
De
Rode Draad is the leading pressure group for all things
related to sex work in the Netherlands
The International
Prostitutes' Collective has been promoting sex worker rights
since 1975
The Italian Committato
per i Diritti Civile delle prostitute lobbies for civil and
legal rights for prostitutes
Sex
Workers International Media Watch (SWIMW) observes and
responds to the media on sex worker related issues. Articles
for debate on migrant
prostitution are linked from this site. |
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Anti-Trafficking
Perhaps the most
comprehensive collection of anti-trafficking material, Human
Trafficikng Documents and Resources including international
instruments, reports and documents organised by region is
maintained by Isabelle Laroche
1949 Convention
for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the
Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others which entered into
force in 1951 (HTML format)
Protocol
to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention
Against Transnational Organized Crime
(HTML format)
The NSWP comments
on the UN Protocol to Prevent and Suppress the Trafficking of
Human Beings, Especially Women and Children
An excellent
introduction to trafficking and criminal groups involved is
provided by Adam
Graycar, Director of the Australian
Institute of Criminology in his 1997 paper Trafficking
in Human Beings
Sponsored by the European
Commission, Femmigration
provides legal information on trafficking and migrant prostitution
in the EU
Drawing attention to
issue related to gender, All
Women Count is a source of argument, analysis and debate
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fuller and updated list of trafficking links can be viewed HERE |
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New
Technologies
Donna
Hughes catalogues the (mis)uses of new technology
in The Use of
New Communications and Information Technologies for Sexual
Exploitation of Women and Children (pdf) (Get
Acrobat)
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Health
Matters
European
Network for HIV/STD Prevention in Prostitution (EUROPAP) is
supported by the European
Commission in co-ordinating and promoting information sharing
and action on health
2002
International Conference on HIV & AIDS, Barcelona 7-12
July 2002 official Website
Around
Network provides a region by region directory of AIDS/HIV
self-help groups in the UK, Northern Ireland and Eire
Laura Augustin explores the health effects of
prostitution and asks Which
Health? Which Prostitution?
Conducted by the Medical Research Council, the
survey results of Sex
at the Millennium tell you what the British people does in bed
Network
of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) provides health info, debate and a
directory
of projects from Australia to Zimbabwe
Links
to Male Prostitution facilities across the globe, including N
& S America, Europe and beyond
HookOnline
is a USA publication aimed at male sex workers, the country's most
at risk group for HIV-seroconversion, suicide, and drug and
alcohol addiction |
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Sex
Worker Self-help Groups
Maintained in the USA, Prostitutes'
Education Network is a directory of information with advice
for sex workers, links to pressure groups, issues & a bookshop
UK:
Scot-Pep
(site under construction at time of publishing)
De
Rode Draad is the leading pressure group for all things
related to sex work in the Netherlands
Drawing attention to
gender inequality, All
Women Count is a source of argument, analysis and debate |
Links
by Country:
Austria -Belgium
-Denmark - Finland - France
- Germany - Greece - Ireland
- Italy - Luxembourg - Netherlands
- Spain - Sweden
- United Kingdom
Austria MAIZ
provides info on the Street & Sex work in Austria Caritas
is a resource foe women's issues Europap
activities Austria
2000-2002 Belgium Payoke
has been promoting the emancipation of prostitutes in Belgium since
1988 Denmark Pro-centret
offers health promotion for prostitutes in major Danish cities Prostitution
and child prostitution stats & facts for Denmark Finland Empowerment
and harm reduction in Finland offered by
Pro-Tukipiste Europap
activity report for Finland 1998 - 2000 France CABRIA
is a french organsation promoting health and rights for prostitutes Les
activites de l'Europap en France 2000 - 2002 Germany HYDRA
has been fighting for en end to social and legal discrimination of
prostitutes since 1980 Femmigration
provides information
for migrant sex workers Querstrich
is a project for male prostitues Europap
activity
report 2000-02 Greece Europap
Activity report 2000-02 Ireland Europap
activity
report 1998 - 2000 Prostitution
facts from the media Italy Committato
per i Diritti Civile delle prostitute lobbies for civil and
legal rights for prostitutes LILA
is an Italian network raising awareness of AIDS Luxembourg Ministère
de la Promotion Féminine, Luxembourg Netherlands At
www.Prostitutie.nl you wuill
find web forums, internet polls, good NL links and excellent health
information for sex workers Boys
4 Boys is a male sex resource The
Mr A. de Graaf Foundation is the Dutch national centre for research,
documentation, public information, policy development and advice on the
issue of prostitution and related phenomena and includes many indispensable
links De
Rode Draad is the leading pressure group for all things related to
sex work in the Netherlands
Spain
Barcellona
will host the International
Conference on HIV & AIDS, 7-12 July 2002
Sweden
Sponsored by
the government, Kvinnoforum is an excellent directory
of women's issues (also in English)
UK
Conducted by the Medical Research
Council, the survey results of Sex
at the Millennium tell you what the British people does in bed
Kelly
& Regan report on the trafficking situation in the UK in Stopping
Traffic: Exploring the extent of, and responses to, trafficking for the
purposes of sexual exploitaion in the UK (pdf) (Police Research
Series) Scot-Pep
(site under construction at time of publishing)
Press
article: Sex
workers join the GMB
For
health projects, policy and action, see the UK
Activity Report 1998-99 produced by EUROPAP
"The
commercial sexual exploitation of boys is the most hidden form of child
abuse in Britain..." reports the Observer in Abandoned,
vulnerable and exploited: Britain's rent boys (Dec 9th 2001)
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