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I am sure the passage of HR-972 will cause controversy since it targets the demand for prostitution as much as "voluntary sex-work." The new law also does not address poverty, enough which often is the reason for sex-work. Especially during a time where jobs are being outsourced, and even people with master degrees can't find decent jobs, the fight against sex-work will lead to nowhere. One can't get rid of prostitution if women don't get decent paying jobs. That is the bottom line which continues to be ignored. We need decent paying jobs to get women out of the sex-industry. Only those few "liberated" women who love it should do it. Most women would rather be liberated in other ways, so why not leet the "way advanced thinking and spiritually enlightened" sex-workers be all empowered and sell their time freely. Guess, the fear if the law-makers was that too much has happened to trafficked people in the past, and legalizing prostitution for those who love doing it, would give too much freedom to the pimps at the end… One could always argue that the girls had a free choice. Here we go… one can’t win, either way! There may be a giant backlash waiting for the liberal sex-scene, which didn't care enough for trafficked people to start off with. Hope I am wrong! I just want the trafficked kids to be safe! See if I find more... maybe somebody out there needs that information....
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January 4, 2006
Trafficking Victims Protection Act Reauthorized
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (HR 972) was recently reauthorized by Congress, extending funding for trafficking prevention and victim protection through 2007. The legislation authorized approximately $180 million per year.
The legislation addresses many dimensions of trafficking, by enacting measures designed to combat labor trafficking, the use of child soldiers, and sex trafficking both domestically and in the US’s foreign and military affairs. Domestically, the legislation creates pilot programs for residential treatment facilities for juvenile trafficking victims, and a grant program for law enforcement agencies to use in combating forms of human trafficking. Furthermore, the legislation reaches into foreign affairs by enhancing US efforts to prevent trafficking in peacekeeping and antiterrorism efforts, making sex and labor trafficking criminal offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and calling for the Department of Defense to create a director of anti-trafficking policies.
Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) praised the legislation, and its inclusion of the End Demand for Sex Trafficking Act, which she and Representative Deborah Price (D-OH) cosponsored. According to The Source on Women’s Issues in Congress, Maloney said that the law “seeks to reduce demand for sex trafficking by providing critical funding to law enforcement to prosecute the demand side, the purchasers… sex traffickers and exploiters… It is important that we protect the victims of the sex trade industry and punish the predators and those who are doing this terrible thing.”
The Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Center for Women and Policing works with law enforcement at all levels of government to ensure the enforcement of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp
1. Federal Update: House passes bill reauthorizing Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
On December 15, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill reauthorizing the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. H.R. 972, includes new provisions giving police support to investigate and prosecute brothel owners, pimps, and johns. It directs the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, and the Department of Defense to incorporate anti-trafficking and protection measures for vulnerable populations, particularly women and children, into post-conflict and humanitarian emergency assistance and programs. It also calls on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a new program to reduce demand for commercial sex acts and a pilot program for residential treatment facilities for minor victims of domestic trafficking.
www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx
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January 4, 2006
Trafficking Victims Protection Act Reauthorized
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (HR 972) was recently reauthorized by Congress, extending funding for trafficking prevention and victim protection through 2007. The legislation authorized approximately $180 million per year.
The legislation addresses many dimensions of trafficking, by enacting measures designed to combat labor trafficking, the use of child soldiers, and sex trafficking both domestically and in the US’s foreign and military affairs. Domestically, the legislation creates pilot programs for residential treatment facilities for juvenile trafficking victims, and a grant program for law enforcement agencies to use in combating forms of human trafficking. Furthermore, the legislation reaches into foreign affairs by enhancing US efforts to prevent trafficking in peacekeeping and antiterrorism efforts, making sex and labor trafficking criminal offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and calling for the Department of Defense to create a director of anti-trafficking policies.
Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) praised the legislation, and its inclusion of the End Demand for Sex Trafficking Act, which she and Representative Deborah Price (D-OH) cosponsored. According to The Source on Women’s Issues in Congress, Maloney said that the law “seeks to reduce demand for sex trafficking by providing critical funding to law enforcement to prosecute the demand side, the purchasers… sex traffickers and exploiters… It is important that we protect the victims of the sex trade industry and punish the predators and those who are doing this terrible thing.”
The Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Center for Women and Policing works with law enforcement at all levels of government to ensure the enforcement of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp
1. Federal Update: House passes bill reauthorizing Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
On December 15, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill reauthorizing the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. H.R. 972, includes new provisions giving police support to investigate and prosecute brothel owners, pimps, and johns. It directs the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, and the Department of Defense to incorporate anti-trafficking and protection measures for vulnerable populations, particularly women and children, into post-conflict and humanitarian emergency assistance and programs. It also calls on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a new program to reduce demand for commercial sex acts and a pilot program for residential treatment facilities for minor victims of domestic trafficking.
www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx
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