Laura Clawson says
A Human Rights Watch report based on interviews with dozens of farmworkers as well as many attorneys, service providers, law enforcement officials and others involved in the agriculture industry details the problems these women face. The problem is widespread:
A 2010 survey of 150 farmworker women in California’s Central Valley found that 80 percent had experienced some form of sexual harassment, while a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that a majority of their 150 interviewees had also experienced sexual harassment.
Because assailants are often supervisors, women who resist sexual harassment or assault are often fired in retaliation, sometimes along with their entire families or with coworkers who try to stand up for them
Source: Daily Kos
It's just so... conceited to claim that people trafficking into commercial sex is the only conceivable thing we should be worrying our pretty little heads about. My only quibble would be that the report makes it sound as though only women in precarious, smuggled, or trafficked agricultural work are subject to sexual harassment and sexual coercion, but that's just a quibble: it matters more that anyone at all is acknowledging that "non-sex" smuggled, trafficked, and otherwise poorly-documented workers are at risk. Especially since credible reports suggest that they (along with trafficked manufacturing, domestic, and hospitality workers) make up close to 90% of humans trafficked worldwide.
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Who ever said that
Submitted by Redleader (not verified) on Sun, 2012-06-17 22:25.Who ever said that sex work was the "only thing to worry about'?
I don't think that was ever the argument made by people who DON'T think legalizing prostitution is a good answer to the portion of it that does involve sex work. No advocate of the Swedish model, has ever made the case that there weren't other areas of concern.
That is just a straw man and you should know it.
Redleader, t's not a straw
Submitted by luke123 (not verified) on Wed, 2012-06-20 00:54.Redleader, t's not a straw man. Look it up for yourself in the latest trafficking in persons report.
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/192597.pdf
You will see that the report is critical of Sweden in their recommendations for ignoring forced labor trafficking:
"ensure that labor
trafficking is explicitly included in the mandate of the National
Coordinator and any national action plan;"
Compare this with a country with legalized prostitution, like the Netherlands, which is praised as a model for other countries for it's anti-traficking efforts and for it's self-critical approach:
"expand the government’s international leadership
role to share best practices with other countries, in particular
its practices on victim identification and assistance, protection
of unaccompanied foreign minors, and its pragmatic, self-
critical approach to improving anti-trafficking results"