Prostitution - A Modern Form of Slavery, Dorchen Leidholdt
Chive Mynde
To begin to address the enslavement of women and girls by local and
global sex industries, we must take the following steps:
Recognize that sex trafficking, sex tourism, military prostitution,
sexual exploitation on the internet, and organized prostitution are
interrelated practices of gender-based domination and control that
constitute contemporary forms of slavery.
Commission a preparatory group to address the need for an optional
protocol to strengthen the application of the 1949 Convention and
explore the need for a new Convention Against All Forms of Sexual
Exploitation.
Call for local, national, regional, and international law enforcement
strategies that depenalize the victims of sexual exploitation while
penalizing sex industry profiteers and customers.
Urge countries to expand and develop shelters and counseling services,
medical care providers, and legal services for all victims of male
violence against women, including sex industry victims and survivors.
Published by
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, February 1999
Donna M. Hughes and Claire M. Roche, Editors
ISBN 0-9670857-0-50
Donna M. Hughes, dhu...@uri.edu
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http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw/mhvslave.htm
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