Government and Swedish legislation (in Swedish)
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- Swedish Governments Action Plan against prostitution and human trafficking for sexual purposes. (2018)
- Swedish Sex Purchase Act (6 kapitlet 11§)
- Governments evaluation of the Swedish Sex Purchase Act (1998-2008)
- Swedish government’s website on human rights
- Government Offices Fact Sheet on prostitution and human trafficking
- The government’s in-depth follow-up of the work to prevent and combat men’s violence against women (2022)
EU
- The EU Commission’s anti-trafficking work and Directive
- The European Parliament framework to combat violence against women. Sections about prostitution are points J and 19.
- The Council of Europe’s website against human trafficking
- Report on progress made in the fight against human trafficking from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council 2022 (English)
- EU strategy to prevent trafficking in human beings, disrupt criminal business models and protect and empower victims (2021-2025) (English)
Organizations, networks and platforms
- Prostitution Research and Education Website – facts on prostitution and trafficking as well as arguments on why more countries should follow “the nordic model”.
- Sisyphe – a French site with several articles on prostitution
- SPACE International – ‘Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment’
- UN Women
Reports, articles and study material
- Men who pay for sex in Germany and what they teach us about the failure of legal prostitution (2022) – written by Melissa Farley, Inge Kleine, Kerstin Neuhaus, Yoanna McDowell, Silas Schulz, Saskia Nitschmann
- The Physical Damage in Prostitution: Report by a Gynaecologist from Street Work (2019) – by prostitutionresearch.com
- 5th Global Report on Sexual Exploitation (2019) – by Fondation Scelles
- Pornography Is Neither Harmless Nor Fantasy (2020) – by prostitutionresearch.com
- Making the connections: resource extraction, prostitution, poverty, climate change, and human rights (2021) – by prostitutionresearch.com
- Prostitution, the Sex Trade, and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) – by prostitutionresearch.com
- 18 myths on prostitution (2017) – by European Women’s Lobby
- Prostitution policy in Sweden – targeting demand (2019) – report by The Swedish Institute and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings (Fourth Report) (2022) – report by EU-kommissionen
- Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2022) – report by UNODC
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) – by UN Women
- Last Girl First! (2022) – CAP International. Read highlights from the report here.
- The differing EU Member States’ regulations on prostitution and their cross-border implications on women’s rights (2021) – study by the EU parliament
- Exploring the demand for prostitution: What male buyers say about their motives, practices, and perceptions (2014) – study by KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation
- Prostitution and trafficking in human beings in the world : an exploitation of the most vulnerable groups (2014) – by CAP International
- ”They will always find me” A study of trafficking and the living conditions of vulnerable children (2019) – by The County Administrative Board in Stockholm
- Prostitution and trafficking in 9 countries – an update on violence and posttraumatic stress disorder (2008) – by prostitutionresearch.com
- Targeting the sexbuyer (2010) – by Kajsa Claude
- Buying Sex on Company Time: Engaging Organizations in Reducing Demand
- A Brief Review of the Evidence on the Consequences of Legalizing or Decriminalizing Prostitution (2012) – prostitutionresearch.com
Books and authors
- Sweet Lolita (2021) by Kicki Sehlstedt
- The Sex Economy (2018) by Monica O’Connor
- Pimp State (2017) by Kat Banyard
- Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade (2016) by Caroline Norma and Melinda Tankard Reist
- Paid For – My Journey Through Prostitution (2015) by Rachel Moran
- Sextrafficking Inside the business of Modern Slavery (2008) by Siddharth Kara. For a short version, see this video.
- Claudine Legardinier, editor of the magazine Prostitution et societé, has written several good books.
- Simon Häggström, police officer and writer. Has written several novels and non-fiction books that depict the raw face of prostitution and human trafficking.
Podcasts
- In Plain Sight. Podcast about sex trafficking by the team that created the film In Plain Sight – Stories of Hope and Freedom.
- Ending Human Trafficking. Podcast by the Global Center for Women and Justice.
