Sierra Lyricalia House of Diplomats
Edmundo Valerii, Secretary
World Assembly Proposal
Reducing Sexual Exploitation
Category: Civil Rights | Strength: Mild
The World Assembly,
Realizing that nations differ in good faith on some questions of sexual morality,
Distraught over the bodily exploitation of millions of people,
Understanding that such exploitation is perpetuated by many different means, among the nastiest of which is apathy or corruption among law enforcement; and
Resolute that its diverse membership can still band together to improve the lives of people in the sex trade,
Therefore:
1. Defines a 'sex worker' as a person who trades their own sexual services for agreed compensation. One who exclusively trades the sexual services of others for compensation - whether directly from clients or by taking sex workers' earnings - (a 'pimp') shall not be classified as a sex worker;
2. Requires member states, regardless of the legality of sex work therein, to faithfully investigate and prosecute criminal allegations made by sex workers against pimps, clients, or law enforcement for criminal charges generally, but especially emphasizing:
- violence, including sexual assault
- trafficking or enslavement
- unwanted administration of narcotics
- entrapment or coercion - sexual or otherwise - especially by means of blackmail, intimidation, theft of possessions or identification, etc.
3. Mandates that member states' investigations, prosecutions, and fines or criminal sentencing of pimps, clients, and law enforcement shall take precedence over such actions against sex workers who are not implicated in crimes besides prostitution and simple drug possession;
4. Forbids member states from prosecuting underage or enslaved sex workers for prostitution, and classifies them as persons fleeing servitude under international law;
5. Requires member nations to ensure the existence of adequately structured and funded psychological and social assistance and rehabilitation programs to aid rescued sex slaves and underage sex workers in dealing with their experiences and adjusting to new and healthier lives; and
6. Strongly encourages nations choosing to prohibit the sex trade to offer amnesty or reduced charges to sex workers for cooperation in investigations of other, more serious or non-victimless crimes and the suspects thereof.
Sixth draft notes: slightly altered wording in Clauses 2, 3, 5. Including drug items might be controversial, but one of the ways pimps keep their victims in line is by addicting them to drugs. Simple possession needs to be a low priority for LEOs for humane treatment of sex workers to be possible. I worded it so whatever the GA winds up doing with those drug decriminalization proposals, from eager embrace to total rejection, should not affect this w/r/t contradiction. Please let me know if you disagree that I've achieved that goal, and how I could do so.
Note for newcomers: I've been kicking this around for quite a while. It is written to be compatible with GAR #179; it ought to still be compatible with whatever replaces it, since it focuses on the way laws against and around illegal prostitution are enforced, rather than trying to regulate legal sex work. As always I welcome those who point out stuff that I've missed.