Petitioning International Secretariat of Amnesty International and Salil Shetty
Recognise that Amnesty International’s draft Policy on Prostitution endorses condone and promote the violation of human rights if passed at the Australian National AGM.
Petition by
Abolish Prostitution Now
A PLEA FROM AN AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS WOMAN ON BEHALF OF ALL WOMEN
Dear Sisters, survivors and allies,
I am speaking as an exited prostituted woman and the grand-daughter of a Latje-Latje Indigenous woman in Australia. As many of you are aware Amnesty International have drafted a policy in favour of full decriminalisation of prostitution. They are actively opposing the Nordic Model which protects the prostituted from prosecution and decreases demand in favour of a policy which has been informed by the sex trade and one notable pimp.
Indigenous peoples are the most exploited peoples on Earth.
AI’s policy on prostitution seeks to ensure that the buying and selling of (mostly) women be seen as inevitable and just any other job. ‘Sex Worker ‘unions claiming to be helping prostituted women are actively promoting AI’s policy ensuring they too profit from our enslavement.
Many of you have written/co-signed letters from survivor groups and written as individuals
These have been an invaluable resource.
At this time here in Australia, a small and dedicated team have taken on our local Amnesty International branches. We have had some success, with two AI branches endorsing the Nordic Model and one calling for a halt on the policy until survivor’s voices have been heard.
However, we are soon going to take this to a National AGM and ask that you lend your support.
The pro-prostitution lobby is fierce, well-funded and we need your help.
I want to deliver a letter signed by Indigenous women worldwide.
Prostitution is not inevitable. Women are not commodities.
I ask that add your name, whether survivor or ally, after mine to our letter written below. This National AGM is taking place July 5-6 so we have very little time to collect signatures.
With sincere respect I ask that you support us in this significant time of change for women.
In solidarity and Sisterhood,
Simone Andrea (Watson) of Abolish Prostitution Now Amnesty Action
“To the International Secretariat of Amnesty International and Salil Shetty
We the undersigned demand recognition for the violation of human rights Amnesty International’s current draft Policy on Prostitution will endorse condone and promote if passed at the Australian National AGM.
As Indigenous survivors and allies of our Indigenous sisters worldwide we fully and without reservation demand that AI acknowledge on our behalf
* That Prostitution is not inevitable – but the result of demand
*That prostitution IS violence against women
*That trafficking and prostitution are NOT two different industries but each feed the other
* That AI’s current draft policy focuses on “harm minimization” and profit for pimps rather than prevention of our abuse and this is NOT acceptable.
* That full decriminalisation and legalisation of prostitution increases trafficking and further violence against Indigenous women and children.
*That in passing this current draft policy Amnesty International will go down in history as one of the worst offenders in human rights history along with colonialists, slave owners and human rights criminals.
*That Amnesty International concedes and thereby endorses the Nordic Model as the best way forward to end ongoing human rights violations against women as a caste globally.
Indigenous women of Australia and globally reject AI’s policy in its current form and demand that our voices be heard.
Sincerely,
Simone Watson,
To:
International Secretariat of Amnesty International and Salil Shetty, President
Simone Watson, Petition promoter
Australian Consultation
Recognise that Amnesty International’s current draft Policy on Prostitution will endorse condone and promote the violation of human rights if passed at the Australian National AGM.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
See also: 
‘Do men have the right to buy women for sex?’, Caroline Norma, The Drum, May 23, 2014
‘The male orgasm is unimaginably trivial in comparison to the human rights devastation that prostitution inflicts on whole swathes of the globe’s female population’.
‘Amnesty branches vote down pro-prostitution sex-industry agenda’, MTR, May 11. 2014
‘Two prostitution survivors describe how it feels to be paid to be raped. MTR , May 11, 2014
‘Amnesty condemned for plans to decriminalise pimps and brothel owners, ignoring experience of abused exited women’, MTR, February 2, 2014
2 Responses
I oppose the decriminalisation of prostitution!
Women are not liberated through it but they are enslaved and further exploited by the men who use them and those who profit from them.
Men do not have innate right or entitlement to purchase any woman or girl for the purpose of using her as a disposable masturbatory object. This is why that mens’ rights organisation Amnesty International are openly promoting their vile women-hating campaign to make it ‘normal and acceptable’ (sic) for males to engage in the exchange/selling/purchasing of women and girls just so that other males can achieve male sexual orgasm!
Women and girls are not and never have been males’ sexual property but this fundamental fact has not deterred men and their female handmaidens in constantly claiming ‘wah males need sexual access to the female body because otherwise this is a violation of male right to enjoy ‘sex’!
The ‘sex’ these women-hating males are advocating is expression and enactment of male sexuality wherein the goal is male sexual pleasure achieved via using a supposedly dehumanised female body!
No male has ever spontaneously combusted due to lack of sexual access to the female body and no male has suffered lethal harm due to lack of sexual access to the female body. Male sexual access to the female body is not essential to maintaining male health because only food, water and shelter are essential for the survivor of females and males.
Shame on that women-hating mens’ rights organisation Amnesty International which has finally admitted it is an organisation created solely for maintenance of male human rights because we females are, according to mens’ rights AI organisation are not human but merely mens’ disposable masturbatory objects.