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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 02:22 PM Aug 2015

Photo-tribute to Amnesty International's decision on the decriminalization of human trafficking [View all]

Can someone photoshop this sign to say "Amnesty Int'l Says Selling Woman is a Human Right"?



Please change this to read "Human Traffickers are protected under the law"



"Human Trafficking SPECIAL HALF PRICE PROMOTION Month"



"LEGALIZE IT"


"GO"



Because this is the Internet, on edit i will make clear that the above is intended as dark satirical humor in protest of AI's decision to decriminalize the sex trade. AI doesn't get my money anymore.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-33850749
But there are many who argue that the German experiment has gone badly wrong with very few prostitutes registering and being able to claim benefits. Above all, the number one criticism is that it's boosted sex tourism and fuelled human trafficking to meet the demand of an expanded market.
Figures on human trafficking and its relationship to prostitution are hard to establish. But one academic study looking at 150 countries argued there was a link between relaxed prostitution laws and increased trafficking rates.
Other critics of the German model point to anecdotal evidence of growing numbers of young Romanian and Bulgarian women travelling to Germany to work on the streets or even in mega-brothels.
An investigation in 2013 by Der Spiegel described how many of these women head to cities such as Cologne voluntarily but soon end up caught in a dangerous web they can't easily escape.
The Coalition Against Trafficking In Women argues that pimps would be the only ones to benefit from decriminalising prostitution..


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