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End Prostitution Campaign
ENDING PROSTITUTION
This is a NEW Campaign we want to publicise through '38 degrees'
Some of you may be familiar with the organisation '38 degrees' as you may well have received an email from them asking you to sign a petition or write to your MP about a contemporary political issue. Their campaigns reach a lot of people and raise awareness about current affairs, whether or not those campaigns succeed in winning their specific goals.
Whilst we believe that any step to prevent trafficking and support the victims/survivors of this appalling crime should be maintained, crucially, the only long term solution to the problem is to cut the demand at source. If enough people vote for the 'ending prostitution' suggested campaign then 38 degrees may take this on as one of their official campaigns and send it through the email system to thousands of people.
Trish Godman's (MSP) private members bill to criminalise the buying (not the selling of sex) has just received sufficient cross party support to continue through to the next stage. To those unfamiliar with this, it means (very briefly) that the punter becomes the criminal not the prostitute. Sweden did this in 1999 and since then the numbers of prostitutes and trafficked girls in Sweden has plummeted. It is vital that the public get to hear about this so they can support the bill through parliament and lobby their MSP to vote for it.
We would really appreciate your support in voting for this campaign and leaving a comment in the box provided.
How to do this?
- Click on this link.
- If you are already a member, please sign in.
- Click on the vote button to the left of the first paragraph underneath the total votes cast so far.
- Please vote (you can use up to 10 votes)
- Enter a comment in the box and click the post button. This brings up a file for you to save on your computer following which your vote and comment should be added to the list already there. If this doesn’t appear to happen after clicking post, refresh your browser view (press function key F5 on your keyboard or click the double arrow icon to the right of the address in Internet Explorer)
Note that Jacci Stoyle is the SEC representative.
(The above process with add you as a member of 38 degrees if you don’t sign in as an existing member and they will send you an email to confirm your email address.)
If you would like to add your name to the petition calling for the UK to opt in to a proposed EU directive to Stop Human Trafficking please click here.
Further information about Trish Goodman's members bill is available here as well as information about the End Prostitution campaign which is a campaign led by Glasgow City Council.
There is also an article about this on the Glasgow and Galloway page of this website
