Thursday, December 10, 2009

H&P historian comments on the Guardian's coverage of sex-trafficking

Opinion article, 2 December 2009

Jane Berney of the Open University uses the history of the Contagious Diseases Act in Victorian Britain and Hong Kong to shed light on the contemporary debate over the scale of sex trafficking. She demonstrates that then, as now, statistics are easily manipulated whilst the voice of the prostitute is absent.

Read Jane Berney's article, More sex, lies and trafficking.