This toolkit examines key municipal provisions in the state of Texas (US), that target sex trafficking illicit massage businesses (IMBs), and outlines best practices for drafting a municipal ordinance, including purpose, scope, and penalty provisions. The toolkit also analyses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting a municipal scheme and implementing operational requirements. Finally, the report explores zoning/land use regulations and building code/structural regulations that could be used to regulate IMBs.
Illicit Massage Businesses (IMBs) use the cover of a legitimate service to engage in prostitution and often human trafficking, by using force, fraud or coercion to compel the women working there to provide sexual services to the buyers who patronize...
Nepal has implemented, repealed and re-implemented various bans and restrictions on the migration of women migrant workers and / or migrant domestic workers since 1998, the year in which all women migrant workers were first banned from migrating to ...Read More
The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the sites for anti-trafficking education and the range of educators who shape how the public and institutions understand and respond to human trafficking. The aim of this Special Issue of Anti-Traff...Read More
Sexual abuse can be difficult to think about and to talk about: it can feel complex, emotional and even scary. You might worry about ‘getting it wrong’, having to have difficult conversations, ‘opening a can of worms’, and not know...Read More
Justice, in its broadest sense, is the foundation on which efforts to tackle modern slavery internationally, nationally and locally rest. For Target 8.7 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be fully realized, it is clear tha...Read More
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