Prevention of Modern Slavery within Sex Work: the role of Adult Services Websites

在过去的十年中，随着数字技术主导商业性产业的组织，现代奴隶制和性剥削发生的情况发生了变化。在联合王国，大多数性服务都在成人服务网站上做广告、进行谈判和提供便利，现已查明，这些网站是犯罪者和贩运者可以操纵、诱捕、胁迫和强迫个人出售性服务的场所。虽然大多数商业性性行为都是在成年人之间自愿进行的，而且是法律的行为，但ASW在促成犯罪行为方面的作用很复杂，而且监管最少。有许多机构试图了解这种关系，国家情报部门了解贩运路线，警察努力查明受害者和目标罪犯。此外，还有第一反应者向受害者提供干预措施，以协助认真对待他们的罪行，并帮助个人远离剥削者。该项目将首次汇集一系列致力于防止ASW中的现代奴隶制的组织，以努力了解、分享新知识和学习，并致力于制定可减少人口贩运和性剥削犯罪的战略和行动计划。该项目的核心合作伙伴是国家打击犯罪署、国家警察局长理事会和非政府组织“看不见”。我们将一起调查ASW如何能够站在防止现代奴隶制的最前沿，那些使用ASW进行性交易的人对平台的看法，管理它们的立法以及防止伤害的策略。该项目的设计包括幸存者，他们将为研究过程、数据分析和知识转让活动提供信息。通过围绕研究技能、提高技能、就业技能和接受高等教育的机会为幸存者实施培训方案，将能力建设活动纳入设计。我们计划为第三方企业提供有关性剥削的培训，并让ASW运营商参与制定透明和健全的机制，以防止其网站含有性剥削内容。我们的工作将直接反馈到政府讨论，APPG和其他论坛，将这些当代数据带到现代奴隶制，性工作和警务在战略和业务层面进行讨论的地方。

The landscape of where modern slavery and sexual exploitation takes place has changed over the past decade with the onset of digital technologies dominating the organisation of the commercial sex industry. Adult Service Websites, where most sexual services are advertised, negotiated and facilitated in the UK, have been identified as a space where offenders and traffickers can manipulate, entrap, coerce and force individuals into selling sexual services. Whilst the majority of commercial sex interactions are amongst consenting adults and legal, the role of ASWs in facilitating offending behaviour is complicated and least regulated. There are many agencies trying to understand this relationship, with national intelligence services understanding routes to trafficking and the police working to identify victims and target offenders. In addition there are first responders who deliver interventions to victims to assist with treating their crimes seriously and helping individuals move away from exploiters. This project, will for the first time, bring together a range of organisations who are working to prevent modern slavery in ASWs, in an effort to understand, share new knowledge and learning, and work towards strategies and actions plans that can reduce crimes of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. The core partners in the project are the National Crime Agency, National Police Chief's Council, and the NGO Unseen. Together we will investigate how ASWs can be at the forefront of preventing modern slavery, what those who use ASWs to sell and buy sex think about the platforms, legislation to govern them and strategies to prevent harm. The design of the project includes survivors who will inform the research process, data analysis and knowledge transfer activities. Capacity building activities are built into the design by implementing a training programme for survivors around research skills, upskilling, employability skills and access to higher education. We plan to develop training for third party businesses around sexual exploitation as well as engage the ASW operators in developing transparent and robust mechanisms to prevent their websites harbouring exploitation. Our work will feed directly into government discussions, APPGs and other forums to bring this contemporary data to the places where modern slavery, sex work and policing are discussed at strategic and operational levels.