🚫 Collaboration between the National Crime Agency, Home Office & pimping websites has failed
🚫 Ofcom guidance for pimping websites is wholly inadequate
🚫Trafficking cannot be ‘designed out’ of the platforms
✅ There is strong cross-party support for outlawing online pimping
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❌ Advises police to use the ideological term ‘sex work’
❌ Undermines enforcement against sexual exploitation
❌ Provides scant detail on targeting sex buyers

Forces should look to Police Scotland's best practice, which responds to prostitution as violence against women. (2/2)

Guidance by Ofcom:

❌ allows high-risk practices on websites that enable sex trafficking, like third parties advertising multiple women for prostitution
❌ normalises commercial sexual exploitation as "sex work"

Concerns raised by MPs have been repeatedly ignored. 2/2

Participants spoke of the importance of

➡️ Asking women if they want support to exit
➡️ Providing long-term, holistic, women-only support
➡️ Recognising prostitution is violence against women
➡️ Dedicated funding from local authorities for exiting support

Victims of sexual exploitation require support, not sanctions.

🙏 Thank you to the 50+ MPs who have signed Tonia Antoniazzi MP's amendment to stop women being punished for their own exploitation.

🙏 Thank you to the *50* MPs who have signed Jess Asato MP's amendment to extend Online Safety Act duties to tackle illegal content to all pornography sites.

👉 Find out more about action needed to combat the harms of the pornography trade appg-cse.uk/wp-content/u...

🙏 Thank you to the *50* MPs who have signed Jess Asato MP's amendment to extend offline safeguards to online pornography.

📝 This change was recommended by Baroness Bertin's Pornography Review and our inquiry on pornography.

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