To bust the business model of sex trafficking, we have to tackle the demand that drives this brutal trade and the pimping websites that facilitate it.

Join the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation and an international panel of speakers to find out why the UK urgently needs to follow the lead of Ireland, Sweden, France and others - by criminalising paying for sex, decriminalising victims of sexual exploitation and tackling pimping websites.

Speakers

• Dame Diana Johnson MP - Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation
• Mia de Faoite, survivor and policy adviser (Ireland)
• Per-Anders Sunesson, Ambassador at Large for Combatting Trafficking in Persons (Sweden)
• Diane Martin CBE, survivor and practitioner (UK)
• Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, founder of Embrace Dignity (South Africa)
• Lorraine Questiaux, Mouvement du Nid (France)

Background

Sex trafficking is estimated to be the most profitable form of modern slavery. To end it - we have to bust the business model.

Without demand from sex buyers, there would be no supply of vulnerable women trafficked into and around the UK for sexual exploitation. Without pimping websites, it would be far harder for pimps and traffickers to advertise their victims to sex buyers and move them around the country to be raped for profit.

Countries such as France, Sweden and Ireland have all passed legislation to bust the trafficking business model - by criminalising paying for sex, decriminalising selling sex, providing support and exiting services to victims of sexual exploitation, and prohibiting pimping websites. It's high time the UK Government followed suit.

Event organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation