2. The Impact of Anti-trafficking Legislation and Initiatives on Sex Workers

This policy brief provides a succinct outline and moving narrative of some of the problematic impacts of anti-trafficking policies on sex workers around the world. “Trafficking in persons has generated increasing global attention in recent decades, largely due to the development of international frameworks, pressure from fundamental feminist and abolitionist groups, and as a reaction to increased migration for labour… The conflation of sex work with exploitation, and the conflation of exploitative work conditions in the sex industry with trafficking, leads to harmful legislation that alienates sex workers…”