Tag: Amnesty

Do men have the right to buy women for sex?

Men have a right to prostitutes? Really? 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, writes Caroline Norma.  Amnesty International ran a Stop Violence Against Women campaign between 2004 and 2010 to hold governments to account “for their failure […]

Amnesty branches vote down sex industry pro-prostitution agenda

Statements from NORMAC and Abolish Prostitution Now following Amnesty state AGMs on weekend NORDIC MODEL AUSTRALIA COALITION (NORMAC) Media Release 10/05/2014 AMNESTY BRANCHES OPPOSE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S SEX INDUSTRY AGENDA. A resolution has been passed today by Amnesty branches in Tasmania and Queensland which advocates for an abolitionist approach to prostitution. This decision conflicts with the […]