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The mission of TraffickingWatch.org is to provide information about human trafficking, particularly as it relates to the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act 2007.
The BBC News wrote an article on Amnesty International, detailing the findings of its new report on trafficking in Scotland. The report provided evidence that sex trafficking cases were not as common in Scotland as once believed.
The report focused on trafficked women and children for the purposes of sexual exploitation or domestic servitude. While attempting to address the sex trafficking problem in Scotland, researchers found that sex trafficking was not the most common form of trafficking in the region. Trafficking victims of domestic and agricultural labor also made it into the findings.
"Amnesty International UK director, Kate Allen, said: "To date, most attention has been given to the plight of women trafficked into the sex trade, but we have also found evidence of trafficking into Scotland for domestic and agricultural labour."
The report may indicate a greater need for research and attention for other forms of trafficking other than sexual exploitation. This not only would apply to Scotland but in all places where the focus on sex trafficking persists. More
The full report
"The real problem with inflated numbers for trafficking victims is that they create pressure for a quick policy fix. But human trafficking is intertwined with larger issues of immigration policy, poverty reduction, access to education, workers' rights (on farms, in restaurants and as domestic help), women's rights, and official corruption. Rather than tackle this briar patch, the tendency has been to call it all "sex trafficking" and stage splashy raids on brothels.
Such "rescues" not only fail to stop human trafficking, they also sweep up and demonize sex workers who have entered the trade on their own, driving them underground and closing off the opportunity to recruit them as allies against trafficking.”
SAPNA PATEL
Staff Attorney
Sex Workers Project
Urban Justice Center
New York