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Government and Swedish legislation (in Swedish)

• Swedish Governments Action Plan against prostitution and human trafficking for sexual purposes.
• Swedish Sex Purchase Act (6 kapitlet 11§) 
• Governments evaluation of the Swedish Sex Purchase Act 
• Swedish government’s website on human rights
• Government Offices Fact Sheet on prostitution and human trafficking

EU

• The EU Commission’s anti-trafficking work and Directive
• The European Parliament framework to combat violence against women. Sections of prostitution are the points J and 19.
• The Council of Europe’s website against human trafficking
• Report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council 2020 (English)

Organizations, networks and platforms

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNOCD) – Human trafficking
  • – Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2020
• Coalition against Trafficking in Women (CATW) 
• Coalition for the abolition of prostitution (CAP) 
• European Women’s Lobby (EWL) 
  • – EWL: ”Together for a Europe free from prostitution
• Hubert Dubois –  has made it watchable documentary La Vitrine hollandaise.
• International Labour Organization (ILO) – forced labour, human trafficking and slavery
• International Organization for Migration (IOM) 
• Interpol – Trafficking in human beings
• MTV EXIT global campaign against trafficking with many statistics
• Network against trafficking (in Swedish)
• The Plattform for civil rights organization’s in Sweden – against human trafficking
• Prostitution Research and Education Website – facts on prostitution and trafficking as well as arguments on why more countries should follow “the nordic modell”.
• Sisyphe, a French site with several articles on prostitution
• SPACE International – ‘Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment’
• UN Women
  •           – Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
  •           – Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (in Swedish) 

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNOCD) – Human trafficking
  • – Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014 

Reports, articles and study material

• 18 myths on prostitution – by European Women’s Lobby
• A Brief Review of the Evidence on the Consequences of Legalizing or Decriminalizing Prostitution  – prostitutionresearch.com
• Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart”:1 Prostitution Harms Women Even if Legalized or Decriminalized  –  prostitutionresearch.com
• Buying Sex on Company Time: Engaging Organizations in Reducing Demand 
• The long journey – encounters with children suspected of being victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation – (in Swedish) by Länsstyrelsen Stockholm
• Destination: sold – a study material on prostitiution and human trafficking – (in Swedish) by Individuell Människohjälp, IM
• How legalizing prostitution has failed  – series of articles in the German newspaper Spiegel
• Human trafficking for sexual and other purposes in 2015 – yearly report from the Swedish Police, in Swedish.
• Human trafficking and prostitution – from a Swedish perspective –  (in Swedish) by NMT, National Methodological support against prostitution and human trafficking
• Prostitution and trafficking in 9 countries – an update on violence and posttraumatic stress disorder –  prostitutionresearch.com
• Prostitution and trafficking in human beings in the world : an exploitation of the most vulnerable groups – by CAP
• Prostitution in Sweden 2014 – (in Swedish) by Länsstyrelsen Stockholm
• Speaking of prostitution – (in Swedish) publication from Kvinnofronten with facts about prostitution
• See me – young people about sex and the Internet – (in Swedish) av MUCF 
• Targetting the sexbyer  – av Kajsa Claude
• Trafficking in human beings– edition 2020 – rapport av EU-kommissionen