The news item below was shared by Lisa Thompson, The Salvation Army, and first of all, I would also like to mention what she said regarding her specification that trafficked victims for prostitution should be considered victims of serial paid rape and nos sex-workers.
On the other hand, the study apparently focused only on international trafficking!! The reasons? It makes me think that trafficking continues to be tackled from a perspective of illegal migration instead of a human rights one.
The number of migrant women trafficked into Britain to work as prostitutes is lower than previously thought, a report has claimed.
Around 2,600 migrant women have been trafficked into England and Wales and forced to work as prostitutes, according to the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo). A further 9,600 sex workers were judged to be "vulnerable migrants", many of whom were abused and exploited, but researchers could not be sure they had been trafficked.
This is far lower than previous estimates, which have ranged from 4,000, according to a 2003 Home Office study, to the 18,000 announced by the then Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, Tim Brain, in 2008.
The latest Acpo study found that 17,000 of the 30,000 women involved in the off-street sex trade are migrants, mostly from China, Thailand and eastern Europe. They said at least 2,600 of these were trafficked into the country and made to work as prostitutes, often with threats of violence.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/2600-sex-workers-trafficked-says-study-2056187.html
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