FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION

NEED TO KNOW FACTS

ABOUT DEMAND

There are 4,300 known

slaves in Australia.
- Global Slavery Index

Prostitution
revenue is around
Australian authorities have assisted
domestic slaves, child brides, slaves in $186 billion p/a
restaurants and trafficked for labor globally
purposes, on farms as fruit pickers - but
the majority of the slaves in Australia
have been in the sex industry.
\

The debate: Self determination v

Objectification of women’s bodies -
which leads to an imbalance of power
There are 42
The question whether prostitution is delivered as a sex service million people
or under conditions of coercion or force is qualified as the world-wide in
criterion to distinguish between prostitution and sexual prostitution
exploitation.
75% of them are
1 in 6 average Aussie blokes have paid for sex between 13 and
25 years old
75% of women in brothels in Victoria are single mums trying to subsist

The 20,000 women in Australia’s brothels experience rape and abuse weekly 


1 2 3
DEMAND DEMAND DEAMND
1 in 7 prostitutes
fuels human trafficking leads to a rise in normalises gender are victims of
criminality based and sexual
trafficking
violence
- EU Parliament
FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION

NEED TO KNOW FACTS

ABOUT THE NORDIC MODEL
Sweden’s legislation recognises
that it is unacceptable for men
to purchase women for sexual
exploitation.
“In Sweden it is understood that any society that claims
to defend principles of legal, political, economic, and
social equality for women and girls must reject the idea
that women and children, mostly girls, are commodities
that can be bought, sold and sexually exploited by men”
- Ekberg

The Nordic Model has had great success in reducing

human trafficking and cutting the demand for
prostitution - the commodification of flesh.

The Nordic Model has been implemented by

Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Korea, Canada,
France, Northern Ireland and has been endorsed by
the European Parliament, and is being considered
by: Italy, Israel, Luxembourg and Scotland.

The legalisation and

The Swedish Government enacted the
Women’s Peace and Sanctuary Laws in
1999, which considered a raft of
gender equal policy approaches,
including to prostitution laws.
decriminalisation approach to
prostitution laws are incompatible
with international human rights law
and women’s rights, as codified in
the CEDAW and DEVAW.

THE WOMEN’S, PEACE AND SANCTUARY LAWS:

Chapter 6 s8 of the Swedish Penal Code states:
“Anyone who promotes or encourages or improperly exploits
for commercial purposes casual sexual relations entered into
by another person in exchange for payment is guilty of a
criminal offence and shall be sentenced for procuring to
imprisonment for at most four years.”

“The law is a catalyst for changes in societal attitudes by

eradicating gender violence.”