Thread by @VieilleAbeille

July is critical for the UK sex work landscape with dangerous #SESTA #FOSTA #Nordicmodel frameworks advocated. Everyone is shouting loudly, often without evidence. This is an evidence resource thread to be shared, based largely on the hard collation work of @alisonphipps

Our Lives Matter: Sex Workers Unite for health and rights
By Anna-Louise Crago, Open Society Institute Public Health Program opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/… Nordic: Sex workers can be displaced to outlying areas or more secluded times, for client protection, which creates additional risk

Abel et al. (2007) The impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the health and safety practices of sex workers: report to the Prostitution Law Review Committee. Health Research Council and Ministry of Justice, New Zealand. otago.ac.nz/christchurch/o…

Amnesty International Draft Policy on the Protection of the Human Rights of Sex Workers amnesty.org/en/draft-polic… on removal of sex workers’ children and deportation, sex workers reluctant to report dangerous or violent clients due to concerns over a loss of their livelihood etc.

Danna, D (2012) ‘Client-Only Criminalization in the City of Stockholm: A Local Research on the Application of the “Swedish Model” of Prostitution Policy’, in Sexuality Research and Social Policy 9(1), 80-93 safetylit.org/citations/inde…

Moving Beyond ‘Supply and Demand’ Catchphrases: Assessing the uses and limitations of demand-based approaches in Anti-Trafficking. By Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women. gaatw.org/resources/publ…

Hester, M and Westmarland, N (2004) Tackling Street Prostitution: towards an holistic approach (Home Office Research Study 279) dro.dur.ac.uk/2557/1/2557.pdf

Jordan, J (2005) Sex Industry in New Zealand: A Literature Review. Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to provide an assessment of the state of the sex industry in New Zealand. justice.govt.nz/assets/Documen…

Chu, S K H and Glass, R (2013-14) ‘Sex Work Law Reform in Canada: considering problems with the ‘Nordic Model’, in Alberta Law Review 51, 101-124. sagecollection.ca/en/system/file… Nordic: increased competition between those selling sex, due to a reduction in those willing to buy publicly.

Kinnell, H (2008) Violence and Sex Work in Britain. Devon: Willan Publishing. Provide an understanding of the nature of violence against sex workers and the relationship between violence, government legislation and policy, and law enforcement practices. books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr…

Krüsi, A et al (2014) ‘Criminalisation of clients: reproducing vulnerabilities for violence and poor health among street-based sex workers in Canada: a qualitative study’, in BMJ Open 2014 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/6/e0… police confiscating condoms for evidence, increasing HIV STIs risks

Kulick, D (2003) ‘Sex in the New Europe: The Criminalization of Clients and Swedish Fear of Penetration’, in Anthropological Theory 3(2), 199–218. sexworkresearch.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/sex… police conducting searches on sex workers, confiscating condoms for evidence creating HIV/STI risks.

Levy, J and Jakobsson, P (2014) ‘Sweden’s abolitionist discourse and law: Effects on the dynamics of Swedish sex work and on the lives of Sweden’s sex workers’, in Criminology & Criminal Justice 14(5), 593–607. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Lyon, W (2014) ‘Client criminalisation and sex workers’ right to health’, in Hibernian Law Journal 58. academia.edu/8916285/Client…

Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Police Affairs (2004) Purchasing Sexual Services in Sweden and the Netherlands. nswp.org/sites/nswp.org… Nordic: Sex worker harrasment from policing of clients. Higher risk services offered due to negotiating quickly with clients who fear arrest.

O’Connell Davidson, J (2003) ‘Sleeping with the enemy? Some problems with feminist abolitionist calls to penalise those who buy commercial sex’, in Social Policy and Society 2(1), 55-63. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Schulze, E. et al. (2014) Sexual Exploitation and Prostitution and its Impact on Gender Equality. Briefing paper for the European Commission Directorate General for Internal Policies. europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes… Discussing whether prostitution can 'ever' be voluntary.

From @ScotPep (2015) The Swedish Model: a briefing. scot-pep.org.uk/sites/default/… The Swedish model reduces streetbased sex workers’ powers of negotiation with potential clients, pushing them into situations where they are more vulnerable to violence and HIV.

Scoular, J and Carline A (2014) ‘A critical account of a “creeping neo-abolitionism”: Regulating prostitution in England and Wales’, in Criminology and Criminal Justice 14(5), 608-626. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

World Health Organisation (2012) Prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections for sex workers in low- and middle-income countries: Recommendations for a public health approach. who.int/hiv/pub/guidel…

World Health Organisation (2013) Implementing Comprehensive HIV/STI Programmes with Sex Workers: practical approaches from collaborative interventions. apps.who.int/iris/bitstream…

UNDP, UNFPA and UNAIDS (2012) Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific. Evidence based report for policy making in 48 countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Pro-decriminalisation. undp.org/content/undp/e…

UNDP (2012) HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights, and Health. Final report of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law. - Advocates decriminalising private and consensual adult sexual interactions for money. undp.org/content/dam/un…

Jordan, A. (2012). The Swedish Law to Criminalise Clients: A Failed Experiment in Social Engineering. Program on Human Trafficking and Forced Labor Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law: American University Washington College of Law. 4:1-17. nswp.org/sites/nswp.org…

Dodillet S., Östergren P. (2011). The Swedish Sex Purchase Act: Claimed Success and Documented Effects, International Workshop: Decriminalizing Prostitution and Beyond: Practical Experiences and Challenges. petraostergren.com/upl/files/5425…

Wallace B. (2009) The Ban on Purchasing Sex in Sweden: The so-called ‘Swedish Model’. Office of the Australian Prostitution Licensing Authority. traffickingpolicyresearchproject.org/PurchasingSexS…

Scoular J., O'Neill M. (2007). Regulating Prostitution: Social Inclusion, Responsibilization and the Politics of Prostitution Reform. British Journal of Criminology 47(5):764–778.

Östergren, P. (2004), Sexworkers Critique of Swedish Prostitution Policy. petraostergren.com/pages.aspx?r_i…

Danna, D. (2007). Report on the city of Stockholm, in Prostitution and Public Life in Four European Capitals.

Crago, A., Arnott J. (2009). Rights Not Rescue: A Report on Female, Male, and transgender Sex Workers’ Human Rights in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa/Open Society Institute’s Sexual Health & Rights Project. opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/…

Bear with me on this thread all you science people. It matters and is time critical. Thank you for the sex workers/academics sending me articles. For 'tis for those in @HouseofCommons and @SarahChampionMP who say there is no evidence for the damage of sex work criminalisation.

Brooks‐Gordon B. (2010). Bellwether Citizens: The Regulation of Male Clients of Sex Workers. Journal of Law and Society 37(1):145-170 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

2014 via @sexworkeurope - 560 NGOs & 94 academics signed letters to the members of the European Parliament asking them to reject a report by MEP Mary Honeyball, which asks EU Member States to consider the criminalisation of the clients of sex workers. sexworkeurope.org/news/general-n…

(2014). Research into Prostitution in Northern Ireland. Commissioned from Queen’s University Belfast by the Departement of Justice. justice-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/…

Subrahmanian R. (2008). Global Perspectives on Gender Equality: Reversing the Gaze. Sexual Politics and Social Policy: Swedish Policy Reviewed. Routledge ISBN 9781135893507 taylorfrancis.com/books/e/978113…