Opposing trafficking laws being used to deport women
In February 2001, we organized an emergency picket to protest against police and
immigration raids against 60 immigrant women in Soho, London. The
protest got widespread sympathetic media coverage and as a result the
raids were publicly condemned and their legality challenged by women’s
groups, prominent lawyers, MPs and church people. Many deportations were
stopped by the public outcry and by Legal Action for Women organizing
good legal representation for detained women. Women, denied they were
victims of trafficking and said they are working independently and
earning money to support themselves and their families.
Trafficking Victim Criminalised and Imprisoned, Social Justice Network, Summer 2005
(pdf) "Anti-trafficking
legislation : Protection or deportation?" Feminist Review
73, 2003
Spanish
translation
LEGISLACIÓN
CONTRA EL TRÁFICO DE MUJERES: ¿PROTECCIÓN O DEPORTACIÓN?
Quote
from an article on trafficking women into prostitution,
The Independent,
17 August 2002
Letter to the Observer,10 Feb 2002
Refugee
Women’s News July/August 2001
"Protecting
Prostitutes",
The
Economist 14-21 July 2001
Press release for emergency
protest,16 February 2001
Law Violates Sex Workers, The Guardian 22 February
2001
Picket: Home Office, police and
academics discuss tightening immigration controls
under the guise of protecting women from trafficking, 6 July 2000
Operation Pentameter: Deportation is the real story Letter to The Voice 30 May 2006
Response to Home Office consultation on trafficking April 2006
International Conference, London, 2004