Opposing trafficking laws being used to deport women
Inquiry Fails to Find a Single Trafficker Guardian 20 Oct 2009
Trafficking statistics discredited on BBC
Video:
Abhijit Das Gupta, Action Aid
Soho sex workers
We are not victims
Cardiff woman prosecuted after taking women to police for protection February 2008.
Criminalising prostitution and action against trafficking for sexual exploitation Diane Abbott's Early Day Motion 633 7th January 2008 - Criticises anti-trafficking legislation.
Trafficking Victory in San Francisco
US PROStitutes
Collective
model letter
to oppose trafficking bill in Congress.
Response to government consultation on trafficking.
Safety First briefing - on trafficking.
Operation Pentameter
Deportation is the real story.
Press statement on Operation Pentameter 2 21st June 2006.
Trafficking Victim Criminalised and Imprisoned Social Justice Network, Summer 2005
In February 2001, we organized an emergency picket to protest against police and
immigration raids against 60 immigrant women in Soho, London. The
protest got widespread sympathetic media coverage and as a result the
raids were publicly condemned and their legality challenged by women’s
groups, prominent lawyers, MPs and church people. Many deportations were
stopped by the public outcry and by Legal Action for Women organizing
good legal representation for detained women. Women, denied they were
victims of trafficking and said they are working independently and
earning money to support themselves and their families.
"Anti-trafficking
legislation : Protection or deportation?" Feminist Review
73, 2003
(pdf)
Spanish
translation:
Legislacion contra el Trafico de Mujeres: Proteccion o deportacion?
Quote
from an article on trafficking women into prostitution
The Independent,
17 August 2002
Letter to the Observer
10 Feb 2002
- Anti-trafficking laws hurt women.
Refugee
Women’s News July/August 2001
"Protecting
Prostitutes"
The
Economist 14-21 July 2001
Trafficking as an excuse for deportation. Emergency protest against mass
deportations.
Press Release 16 February 2001
Law Violates Sex Workers
The
Guardian 22 February 2001
Picket: Home Office, police and
academics discuss tightening immigration controls
under the guise of protecting women from trafficking, 6 July 2000
International Conference, London, 2004