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Mountain of Evidence Against Prop 35

WHO’S BEHIND PROP 35
Facebook’s former chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly is bankrolling the measure after a failed bid for state attorney general in 2010

ESPLERP President Maxine Doogan Testifies Before the California Joint Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committee

The Hunt Sisters: Funding Astroturf Campaigns and Fabricating a Movement


False child prostitution report makes headlines
June 2011

Ronald Weitzer, “Popular Claims vs. Evidence-Based Conclusions in Human Trafficking”: talk given at Queens University Belfast School of Law, 11th April 2013

Evangelical Feminist-Doug Harwood interviews Melissa Gira Grant

Underlying Motives, Moral Agendas and Unlikely Partnerships: The Formulation of the U.S. Trafficking in Victims Protection Act Through the Data and Voices of Key Policy Players- Summer 2012

Prison Time Served: High Cost of Low Returns-PEW Research

“My eye was stabbed by a brothel owner,” Ms. Pros recounted in “Half the Sky,” a recently-released prime-time television documentary, which was broadcast on PBS in the U.S. earlier this month. Questions Raised Over Symbol’s Slavery Story The Cambodian Daily Oct 26, 2012

Where’s the Rescue Numbers?

Human Trafficking Statistics Exaggerated

Government Accountability Office Report on the US government’s flawed methodology

Research report on sorting out the myths and facts about sex trafficking at sporting events

Women’s Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study- The Junk Science Prop 35 is built on

CAll for investigation of the Fraudulent research that negatively impacts the crucial efforts of legitimate organizations that serve exploited and trafficked minors to be investigated

The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that there are approximately 14,500 to 17,500 human trafficking victims

Analysis: Despite reputation, no proof Portland is a hub for child sex trafficking

Leglislative Analysis doesn’t know how much Prop 35 will cost tax payers of California. Watch the Video Here

Prop35 California Senator Mark Leno California Assembly Member Tom Ammiano ask the hard questions. Watch the Video Here

SEX TRAFFICKING AND THE SEX INDUSTRY: THE NEED FOR EVIDENCE- BASED THEORY AND LEGISLATION

The Growing Moral Panic Over Prostitution and Sex Trafficking


The Myth of Sex Trafficking and Sex Slavery, Research, Lies, Facts, Fact Sheet, Truth about Human Trafficking statistics and Prostitution

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More bad laws from years gone by: Trafficking Victims Protection Re-authorization Act-2007-FactSheet

ANTI TRAFFICKING REVIEW: WHERE’S THE ACCOUNTABILITY?

FAILED POLICES OF THE RESCUE INDUSTRY

Rescuing Trafficking

What ‘Rescue’ really looks like: Sex Trafficking Myths Reconsidered by the Open Society Foundations

HIT AND RUN-Report on Anti Trafficking/prostitution in Thailand

What rescue really looks like Sex Workers Hurt by Rescue Cambodia

Kicking Down the Door Urban Justice Center

History of Anti Prostitution Oaths and Anti Sex Trafficking Policies

FBI and Local Police Agencies making prostitution arrests under the guise of rescue

The-Sexual-Politics-of-the-New-Abolitionism

THE AGE OF WOMEN WHO SELL SEX: DOES KRISTOF LIE? WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?

The Youth

Female Minors arrested for Prostitution PDF 1981-2011 FBI statistics.

Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States Institute of Medicine and National Research Council PDF 9/25/2013

MYTHS AND FACTS About Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 9/25/2013

USB Professor Grace Chang asserts that the US sponsors human trafficking 9/9/2013 Audio

Prop 35, Youth, Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking-Interview with Alexandra Lutnick, Researcher

Is Child to Adult as Victim
is to Criminal? Social Policy and Street-Based Sex Work in the United States
Oct. 2011
NO ON Prop 35, Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice

Juvenile Prostitution Factsheet

Lost Boys
New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker—and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide

WANT THE TRUTH ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION?

LA Patches Together Mental Health Care for Juvenile Offenders

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Blog

Federal Report Sexual Abuse in Juveniles Facilities

3 in 25 juveniles in detention are sexually abused, study finds

Study: Long-Term Juvenile Incarceration Fails to Decrease Reoffending Rates

Tackling Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation

HEALTH IMPACT

Anti-Trafficking Initiatives Hurt the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Sex Work and Health A Question of Safety in the Workplace

Incarceration of sex workers in China and STIs Goodyear STI 2008

Structural and Environmental Barriers to Condom Use

International Consultation on the development of an assessment tool for the Human Rights Impact of Anti-trafficking Interventions

RIGHTS BASED APPROACH

U.N. Commission Calls for Legalizing Prostitution Worldwide By Amanda Swysgood
July 23, 2012

Urban Justice Center-Difference between Sex Work and Human Trafficking

Ontario Court of Appeal greenlights brothels, sweeps aside many of Canada’s anti-prostitution laws

Violence and Legalized Brothel Prostitution in Nevada

Sweedish report may 2011

Is prostitution harmful? Nope, says Journal of Medical Ethics

Steriotyping Sex Workers-Simpson Paper

Sex work for the middle classes Bernstein Sexualities

Human Rights Impact of Anti-trafficking Interventions- Developing an Assessment Tool

The Use Of Raids To Fight Trafficking In Persons Sew Work Project Urban Justice Center New York City

What predicts job satisfaction among female sex workers? A study from Queensland, Australia

LINKS

Pedophile and Child Porn Law Enforcement Agents 2010-2012

What Anti-Trafficking Advocates Can Learn from Sex Workers: The Dynamics of Choice, Circumstance, and Coercion

Admitted prostitutes of accused pimps say they’re not victims

Research Ethics and Methods

Ten Years of Independent Monitoring by The Dutch Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings

San Francisco Police loose anti trafficking grant because they used monies to arrest 41 people for prostitution Nov 30 2011

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