Posted on 03/25/2014 11:09:00 AM PDT by Morgana
NEW YORK, March 21, 2014 (C-FAM.org) - Women rescued from prostitution are criticizing UN agencies and Amnesty International for trying to legalize prostitution insisting legalization would lead to more girls being trafficked, and transform pimps into legitimate businessmen.
“When [UN personnel] work in a brothel then will I listen to their argument,” said one former prostituted woman referring to the newly-created agency called UN Women.
“What the hell are they [Amnesty International] thinking,” said Rachel Moran, a former prostituted woman from Ireland. Author of Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, Moran refers to a leaked draft paper advocating for legalizing “sex work.” The report, said by a panelist at the event, was authored in part by a former pimp now on staff with Amnesty International, was criticized for creating a “right to men to buy sex”.
The survivors of sex trafficking and prostitution spoke to an overflow crowd at the UN’s annual conference on women. The panel on ”Prostitution or Sex Work,” organized by The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), was held as diplomats negotiated whether to describe prostitution as “sex work.”
The term “sex work” originated by US-based pimps in order to normalize prostitution. While many use the term to avoid offending prostituted women, mainstreaming the phrase only benefits pimps and panderers, panelists said. Prostitution is not work, they argued – it is paid rape, and using the term hurts efforts to stop it.
UN agencies recently released reports telling countries to decriminalize all aspects of prostitution to reduce HIV/AIDS and promote human rights. A UN Development Program (UNDP) report on HIV and the Law and Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific, a UNDP, UN Population Fund and UNAIDS-backed report, calls for decriminalizing prostitution.
The UN reports imply prostituted women “work” by choice. However, Natasha Falle, founder of SEXTRADE 101 said upwards of 95 percent want to exit but need assistance. Falle, a Canadian sex trafficking survivor, has helped hundreds of women escape prostitution.
The UN reports suggest legalization provides safeguards for prostituted women. Wrong again, said the panelists. Men paying for sex are addicts using women’s bodies as drugs, said a former victim. Men believe the time they have purchased to be with a woman puts them completely in control. Laws requiring condom use cannot be enforced.
Attendees gasped when told an email obtained from UN Women revealed support for decriminalization. The former prostituted women encouraged the packed audience to tell UN Women they must retract their support for decriminalization and that prostitution must be treated as gender-based violence.
Last month Amnesty International responded to backlash from its leaked report stating, “no decisions…have been made yet.” Amnesty noted that the World Health Organization, UN Women, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, and Human Rights Watch all “support or are calling for the decriminalization of sex work."
Second GOOD FOR HER!
Just think of how we would go back to the 1800’s era of placage. All those mothers exploiting their daughters and with Western men being the doormats they now are, I believe that God would finally give us the punishment we would deserve.
Something else for the MSM to ignore.
“When [UN personnel] work in a brothel then will I listen to their argument,” said one former prostituted woman referring to the newly-created agency called UN Women.
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Oh but they do.
Not surprised, I have known for a long time that most UN agencies and Amnesty International are not good guys, and the world would be better off without ‘em.
The title is not wrong in any way.
The two are by no means incompatible.
They could be considered opposites in the way “Shirt” and “Wool” are opposites. Just because something is made of wool does not mean it can not be a shirt at the same time.
So too with the terms “Prostitute” and “Slave.”
Prostitute means that sex is being performed for material benefit. Slave means a human’s body is controlled by another.
While one may fit only one of the two descriptors, it has sadly been common that both applied to the same individual. Kind of like there have been a lot of wool shirts over the centuries.
Thanks Morgana.
The U.N.- The UnAmerican Value Nations Brothel.
It says she was “ex-prostituted” not “ex-prostitute” That kinda implies she was prostituted out by someone else. This same article also talks of a “brothel” so I’m assuming it applies to this woman. Now days women who are in brothels are held against their will as sex slaves. This is not the image of “Gunsmoke” with Miss Kitty running the show. This is a place where women are caged like animals and used only for sex.
Liberals have a very strange attitude towards sex, some of which are mutually contradictory.
Sex is or should be something that is casual and sometimes the subject of legal economic transactions.
At the same time, rape, or forced sex, is viewed as peculiarly traumatic.
You can’t logically hold both opinions at the same time. Sex is either a big deal or it isn’t.
If sex is no big deal, then being forced to engage in it should be no more traumatic than being forced to engage unwillingly in any other activity.
If sex is (or should be) a big deal emotionally and physically, then it should not be casual or sold. My POV, if that isn’t clear.
You missed my point.
Who gets the money and who makes the decision is irrelevant as to whether or not the person is a prostitute. What is germain is that the recipient of the sex is paying something to somebody. There is a commercial component.
Slaves in a coal mine are still miners even though they are also slaves.
People being sold for sex by someone else are both prostitutes and slaves at the same time.
There is no component of the term “prostitute” which indicates personal volition on the part of the person in question, anymore than with the term “miner.”
This is important to remember, because people rescued from a pimp or a filthy brothel are still likely to need the same sort of help staying out of the sex trades in the future that a freelancer who entered the trade as an adult
would need. There is a kind of damage that needs to be aknowledged.
Simply getting them out of where they are is not enough.
The UN and Amnesty are trying to legalize it to provide legal cover to the Bohemian Grove hedonists for when that news comes to light, especially about the drugged up underage boy prostitutes that excite certain Speakers and Senators.
This program in the Sarasota / Bradenton area of west Florida is an example of the sort of thing that is needed.
http://selahfreedom.com/groups/
>>Now days women who are in brothels are held against their will as sex slaves. This is not the image of “Gunsmoke” with Miss Kitty running the show. This is a place where women are caged like animals and used only for sex.<<
I think that you need to come to Nevada and talk to the women who work in the state licensed brothels.
But, but, but what do these women know compared to what LIBERAL ELITES FEEL? Liberal elites know what's best for everyone - they don't need no damn experience... or knowledge.. they FEEL they're right. So THEY ARE RIGHT. Liberal elites didn't even need to read a health care bill like Obamacare because they KNOW their FEELINGS and their feelings told them they were right....
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