Policy for Women in the Sex Trade: A Human Trafficking Awareness Month Panel

Sex trade survivors discuss their state-level advocacy work for equality model policies. 

The Equality Model (sometimes called the Nordic Model or partial decriminalization) is an evidence-based comprehensive approach to abolishing the sex trade by repealing laws that criminalize people in prostitution, providing exit programs and essential resources for survivors, and reducing the demand for prostitution by re-educating buyers and prohibiting the exploitation of others. Now part of a global movement aimed at reducing human trafficking, several U.S. states are contemplating different approaches to prostitution policy reform.