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I didn't know that the Nordic Model was slowly being adopted across Europe?

I think she has a point about a bias to Western social values and supports. What works for us doesn't mean it will work for some other less developed country.



http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/08/14/amnesty-prostitution-ruling-is-heartless-mallick.html

Amnesty International, much loved and greatly respected, has just met in Dublin and rendered a decision on prostitution. I assumed an ancient cruelty had been packed in its grave by the council of the noblest of human rights thinkers.

But no. Amnesty backed decriminalization, meaning it okayed the selling and buying of sex. It’s the last bit that has people annoyed. Rather than just defending the human rights of (mostly) women who sell their bodies, Amnesty backed (mostly) male buyers and pimps, which seems to defeat their purpose.

The decision, which opposes the so-called Nordic Model slowly being adopted Europe-wide — this model criminalizes buyers rather than sellers — is peculiar and heartless. Many Amnesty supporters, from film stars to feminists to prostitutes, are reeling.

But the thinking behind it is instructive. It’s the same self-destructive strategy that made two #BlackLivesMatter advocates disrupt a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sandersnot Donald Trump or Scott Walker — in Seattle recently. They took his microphone and forced the rally to shut down.

Why damage the progressive cause? Why shoot yourself in the foot?

Prostitution is the last frontier of women’s rights, the subject no one wants to discuss because no one cares about, well, whores. In 2014, on the instructions of the Supreme Court which was trying to help the nation’s most abused and despised people, Canada took action and adopted the Nordic Model.

It was odd to see Amnesty take the neoliberal view, that we live in a free market and sex is a commodity like any other. “Men . . . who buy sex from consenting adults are exercising personal autonomy,” an earlier Amnesty document reads. (Amnesty says earlier drafts were discarded). Amnesty’s media release, which skates around every mention of buyers or pimps, explains it doesn’t protect “abusive or exploitive” pimps. So presumably just the honey-hearted ones then.

This is the thinking behind the phrase “sex work.” Its adherents say such work is a choice and that poverty and fear have nothing to do with it. If prostitution is sex work, are murdered teenagers its unpaid interns?

With progressive intentions, Germany fully legalized prostitution in 2002. It turned Germany into what has been called “Europe’s biggest brothel,” with more than one million men a day, many of them tourists, paying for sex. Germany is now the destination nation for sex traffickers and destitute village girls from Africa and the outlands of Eastern Europe, as I discovered when I wrote about this for the Star in 2014. Brothels charge flat rates. They offer discount days for seniors. It’s a horror show.

On the day the law passed, three feminist women — the family minister, the Green Party floor leader and a Berlin brothel owner — raised glasses of champagne.

I am looking at another celebration. A photograph, posted online on Tuesday, shows 20 @AmnestyOnline London staffers toasting the decision.

Seventeen of them are young women. They are kind, intelligent people, idealists all, and their humane goodness makes Amnesty great. The room is brimming with delight.

But, without being unkind, I doubt anyone in the photo is knocking back their glass and heading out for sex with as many strangers as possible for scraps of money to pay the rent and feed the kids. It’s a miserable existence, full of illness, shaming, fatigue and a constant alertness to physical threat.

As the Guardian put in an irate editorial, Amnesty based its decision on “libertarian ideals,” excluding the “violence, deceit and the exploitation of children” that is the core of the trade in most of the world.

At this point, one must use jargon against its inventors, as the Guardian icily did. “To take as normative the experience of protected western adults is a morally disabling form of privilege.” Ouch.

While some activists are happy — they’re trying to make prostitutes less despised and it’s a worthy aim — others are heartbroken. I regret being brisk with Amnesty this week when they emailed me about a fearful human rights case.

An 11-year-old rape survivor gave birth in Paraguay, a mostly Catholic country with a high rate of child sexual abuse. The law wouldn’t allow abortion unless the mother’s life was at risk, so the child, too physically small to give birth, had a caesarean. “We’ll see afterwards how she gets on as a mother,” the hospital director said.

Amnesty is on this case. It’s what they do so well, directing world attention to state abuse of individuals. If they had stuck to their core mission, Amnesty backers — I remain a stalwart — wouldn’t be feeling so bruised today.
 

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"I do think worrying about boys doing less well in school than girls is a lot of tosh, since no one ever worried that girls did less well in school". from is from Mallick in a toronto star article she wrote. not surpising
 

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Obviously biased article. No where does she list the actual motivations of Amnesty International in her article. Not that the anti-prostitution crowd will care. This is gospel to them.
 

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Any of Mallick's columns I have read seem to indicate she is angry about virtually everything.
 

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I didn't know that the Nordic Model was slowly being adopted across Europe?

I think she has a point about a bias to Western social values and supports. What works for us doesn't mean it will work for some other less developed country.



http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/08/14/amnesty-prostitution-ruling-is-heartless-mallick.html

Amnesty International, much loved and greatly respected, has just met in Dublin and rendered a decision on prostitution. I assumed an ancient cruelty had been packed in its grave by the council of the noblest of human rights thinkers.

But no. Amnesty backed decriminalization, meaning it okayed the selling and buying of sex. It’s the last bit that has people annoyed. Rather than just defending the human rights of (mostly) women who sell their bodies, Amnesty backed (mostly) male buyers and pimps, which seems to defeat their purpose.

The decision, which opposes the so-called Nordic Model slowly being adopted Europe-wide — this model criminalizes buyers rather than sellers — is peculiar and heartless. Many Amnesty supporters, from film stars to feminists to prostitutes, are reeling.

But the thinking behind it is instructive. It’s the same self-destructive strategy that made two #BlackLivesMatter advocates disrupt a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sandersnot Donald Trump or Scott Walker — in Seattle recently. They took his microphone and forced the rally to shut down.

Why damage the progressive cause? Why shoot yourself in the foot?

Prostitution is the last frontier of women’s rights, the subject no one wants to discuss because no one cares about, well, whores. In 2014, on the instructions of the Supreme Court which was trying to help the nation’s most abused and despised people, Canada took action and adopted the Nordic Model.

It was odd to see Amnesty take the neoliberal view, that we live in a free market and sex is a commodity like any other. “Men . . . who buy sex from consenting adults are exercising personal autonomy,” an earlier Amnesty document reads. (Amnesty says earlier drafts were discarded). Amnesty’s media release, which skates around every mention of buyers or pimps, explains it doesn’t protect “abusive or exploitive” pimps. So presumably just the honey-hearted ones then.

This is the thinking behind the phrase “sex work.” Its adherents say such work is a choice and that poverty and fear have nothing to do with it. If prostitution is sex work, are murdered teenagers its unpaid interns?

With progressive intentions, Germany fully legalized prostitution in 2002. It turned Germany into what has been called “Europe’s biggest brothel,” with more than one million men a day, many of them tourists, paying for sex. Germany is now the destination nation for sex traffickers and destitute village girls from Africa and the outlands of Eastern Europe, as I discovered when I wrote about this for the Star in 2014. Brothels charge flat rates. They offer discount days for seniors. It’s a horror show.

On the day the law passed, three feminist women — the family minister, the Green Party floor leader and a Berlin brothel owner — raised glasses of champagne.

I am looking at another celebration. A photograph, posted online on Tuesday, shows 20 @AmnestyOnline London staffers toasting the decision.

Seventeen of them are young women. They are kind, intelligent people, idealists all, and their humane goodness makes Amnesty great. The room is brimming with delight.

But, without being unkind, I doubt anyone in the photo is knocking back their glass and heading out for sex with as many strangers as possible for scraps of money to pay the rent and feed the kids. It’s a miserable existence, full of illness, shaming, fatigue and a constant alertness to physical threat.

As the Guardian put in an irate editorial, Amnesty based its decision on “libertarian ideals,” excluding the “violence, deceit and the exploitation of children” that is the core of the trade in most of the world.

At this point, one must use jargon against its inventors, as the Guardian icily did. “To take as normative the experience of protected western adults is a morally disabling form of privilege.” Ouch.

While some activists are happy — they’re trying to make prostitutes less despised and it’s a worthy aim — others are heartbroken. I regret being brisk with Amnesty this week when they emailed me about a fearful human rights case.

An 11-year-old rape survivor gave birth in Paraguay, a mostly Catholic country with a high rate of child sexual abuse. The law wouldn’t allow abortion unless the mother’s life was at risk, so the child, too physically small to give birth, had a caesarean. “We’ll see afterwards how she gets on as a mother,” the hospital director said.

Amnesty is on this case. It’s what they do so well, directing world attention to state abuse of individuals. If they had stuck to their core mission, Amnesty backers — I remain a stalwart — wouldn’t be feeling so bruised today.
Its funny how she does not see the hypocrisy in banning women from making a choice to work in sex work, but at the same time is appalled when a woman is denied a right to abortion. good lord. Both acts are patriarchal
 
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