Rethinking Dignity and Exploitation in Human Trafficking and Sex Workers’ Rights Cases

As forced migration increases dramatically due to such factors as climate change, rising conflict, and authoritarianism, more legal cases on human trafficking and sex work are sure to arise. To date, very few cases on these issues have been decided in international human rights tribunals, and they h...

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Published inSocieties (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 14; no. 2; p. 16
Main Author Simmons, William Paul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2024
Subjects
Analysis
Cabaret
Civil rights
Climate change
Company legal issue
consensual sex work
Criminalization
Dignity
Employment contracts
European Court of Human Rights
Exploitation
Forced labor
Government regulation
Human dignity
Human rights
Human rights monitoring
Human smuggling
Human trafficking
Jurisprudence
Kidnapping
Law enforcement
Laws, regulations and rules
Marginality
Migration
Murders & murder attempts
Passports & visas
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Sex crimes
Sex industry
Sex workers
Sexual exploitation
Slavery
Tribunals & commissions
Workers
United States
Mexico
Cyprus
France
United States > US
Arizona
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Summary:As forced migration increases dramatically due to such factors as climate change, rising conflict, and authoritarianism, more legal cases on human trafficking and sex work are sure to arise. To date, very few cases on these issues have been decided in international human rights tribunals, and they have been subject to extensive criticism, especially for their conflation of slavery, human trafficking, forced prostitution, and consensual sex work. This article analyzes recent jurisprudence from Europe and Africa to address this conceptual confusion and argue that tribunals must interrogate their use of the terms dignity and exploitation or risk further marginalizing already marginalized people.
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ISSN:2075-4698
2075-4698
DOI:10.3390/soc14020016