Prostitution inquiry by the Women and Equalities Committee

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www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/women-and-equalities-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/prostitution-inquiry-17-19/

The deadline is Friday 20 September 2019.

"Scope of the inquiry

The Committee will look into:

What harms are associated with buying and selling sex?
How effective are Government policies in tackling this?
What more could be done?

The Committee is calling for written evidence and is particularly interested in receiving submissions which address:

What, if any, harms associated with buying and selling sex? Who is affected? How?
How does buying and selling sex affect attitudes towards women more widely?
What local initiatives are you aware of that address these harms? Are they effective? Why?
What, if any, are the challenges for those facing harm in accessing services (for example, healthcare; support services; advice; exit services)? What needs to change?
What relevance does the Public Sector Equality Duty have for the way that public authorities?
How does the law currently treat paying for sex? How could law and policy be improved to address harm?
How effective are different international approaches at addressing any harms associated with buying and selling sex?"

I hope this isnt as impenetrable as some of their other efforts.

Thanks - placemarking so I can do this when I have a bit more time. (I've written to my MP in support of the Nordic model and he was very encouraging).

Hopefully a straight compare-and-contrast of Germany's experience with total decrim (trafficking has gone up) and Sweden's with criminalizing buying but decriminalizing selling (trafficking has gone down) should help focus their minds on the rather obvious lessons to be drawn from different international approaches.

I hope people from the Holbeck area of Leeds get to put their thoughts about the 'managed zone' in. Women and children are being acosted in the street and a teacher going home was bundled into a car and raped. For some men all females are fair game when women's bodies are being sold

www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/school-teachers-harrowing-account-being-14959692

Here's a link to a recent report by the appg (Jess Phillips is on it). This came out for the Nordic Model.
appgprostitution.uk/inquiry/
The 2016 Home Affairs commitee Inquiry seemed to recommend decriminalization, will have to look at their reasoning.

Was the 2016 committee not the one chaired by Keith Vaz, who had to step down after it transpired that he'd been seeing male prostitutes himself? If I recall, he himself couldn't see the conflict of interest and wouldn't quit the job voluntarily; he had to be pushed.

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Now you mention it, it was.

I read that report yesterday funnily enough, they took oral evidence from Paris Lees apparently.

Here it is. It favour decrim but doesn't recommend actually making any changes as it says the evidence isn't strong enough for any modal.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmhaff/26/26.pdf

Interesting, though extremely Guardianish, article here.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/29/how-can-the-tories-moralising-report-on-prostitution-completely-ignore-austerity