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

在过去的十年里，随着数字技术主导了商业性行业的组织，现代奴隶制和性剥削的发生地发生了变化。成人服务网站是英国大多数性服务广告、谈判和促进的地方，已被认定为罪犯和人贩子可以操纵、诱骗、胁迫和强迫个人出售性服务的地方。虽然大多数的商业性互动都是在成年人之间自愿和合法的，但asw在促进犯罪行为方面的作用是复杂的，而且监管最少。有许多机构试图了解这种关系，国家情报机构了解人口贩运的途径，警方努力查明受害者和目标罪犯。此外，还有急救人员向受害者提供干预措施，协助他们认真对待他们的罪行，帮助个人远离剥削者。该项目将首次将一系列致力于防止ASWs中现代奴隶制的组织聚集在一起，努力理解，分享新知识和学习，并制定可以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犯罪局、国家警察局长委员会和非政府组织Unseen。我们将一起调查ASWs如何能够站在防止现代奴隶制的最前沿，那些使用ASWs买卖性行为的人对平台的看法，管理他们的立法和防止伤害的策略。该项目的设计包括幸存者，他们将为研究过程、数据分析和知识转移活动提供信息。通过实施一项针对幸存者的研究技能、技能提升、就业技能和获得高等教育的培训计划，将能力建设活动纳入设计。我们计划针对性剥削对第三方企业进行培训，并让ASW运营商参与制定透明和健全的机制，以防止他们的网站窝藏性剥削。我们的工作将直接反馈给政府讨论、appg和其他论坛，将这些当代数据带到在战略和操作层面讨论现代奴隶制、性工作和警务的地方。

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.