Mission
WASE Forward is a Washington initiative to promote policies and practices that enhance support and justice for people with lived experience of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation.
- Decriminalize Individuals in prostitution
- Criminalize the buying and selling of other people for sex
- Provide protection and support to individuals so they can avoid and exit prostitution (welfare, housing healthcare, counseling, and other support services).
The Equality Model directly targets the demand for buying sex by criminalizing sex buyers and traffickers, while decriminalizing the people who are being bought and sold for commercial sex. The descriminalizaton of prostituted persons recognizes those who are bought and sold for sex exploited, not perpetrators of crime.
Understanding Human Trafficking Using the A-M-P model
- Action: Refers to the initial act performed by the trafficker. This could involve recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of a person.
- Means: Describes the methods used by the trafficker to control or coerce the victim. These means can include force, fraud, or coercion.
- Purpose: Represents the ultimate goal of the trafficking situation. Typically, this involves exploiting the victim for commercial sexual acts, labor, or services.
The Action-Means-Purpose (AMP) Model is a device used to illustrate the federal definition of a “victim of severe forms of trafficking in persons”.
At a minimum, one element from each column must be present to establish a potential situation of human trafficking. The presence of force, fraud or coercion indicates that the victim has not consented of his or her own free will.
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