CHASTE is involved in raising the issues pertaining to trafficking in sexual exploitation in all arenas of public life, to politicians, academics, the media and particularly to churches and faith communities. The Resources on these pages reflects the breadth of our reach and concern. These pages are still in process of development. If you have contributions which you would like to see referred to on these pages please be in touch.
There are several publications which look at trafficking for sexual exploitation in some detail particularly in terms of the differentiation in legislation across nations. There are other more popularly written books which describe the mechanisms of trafficking and the human misery which it exacts from those raped and brutalised in its realisation.
Feature Book
Not for Sale: Raising Awareness, Ending Exploitation
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Not for Sale is available now through our online shop, from Wesley Owen stores across the country and from Methodist Publishing House.
This is a must read for all those seeking to understand the issues surrounding sexual exploitation and abuse in our society today - the human cost of UK prostitution today and the scourge of trafficking for sexual exploitation exposed to our senses as never before.
Commissioned by CHASTE this book drives home a message for our times. Using a wide range of literary styles and modes of communication from case studies, personal testimonies, poetry, prose reflection, theological meditation, song and trenchant liturgy, this anthology of newly commissioned pieces makes clear that prostitution is not the oldest profession, but one of the oldest forms of violence against women condoned by society and promoted through commerce.
Not for Sale is a book for all those who want to make a difference to the prevailing culture of sexual commoditisation of our times.
Recommended Books
Beating the Traffic: Josephine Butler and Anglican Social Action on Prostitution Today Alison Milbank (Editor), 2007
Slavery has returned with a vengeance in the globalised world of the twenty-first century, in the trafficking of women and chidlren around the world for the purposes of prostitution. It is in this context that Josephine Butler, who sought to end the sale of women in the Victorian period, has much to teach us.
Trafficking in women and children in India: (sexual exploitation and sale) / M. Rita Rozario ; assisted by Javed Rasool, Pradeep Kesari. New Delhi : Uppal Pub. House for William Carey Study and Research Centre, Calcutta, and Joint Women’s Programme, 1988
Reviews
The Natashas - Victor Malarek
A hard hitting no holds barred non-fiction account of what the human cost and real time criminality and abuse is entailed in trafficking for sexual exploitation. For the past four years, Victor Malarek has immersed himself in the world of pimps, traffickers, rapists and some of the most exploited women and girls in the world. A leading investigative journalist from Canada, his rivetting read The Natashas, is a harsh introduction into trafficking and the uncalculated misery which it brings to hundreds of thousands of young women.
The title refers to the generic name given by customers to the women and girls trafficked from Eastern Europe across international borders in their thousands. The US state department currently puts the international figure at around 900,000, with a large percentage arriving from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Malarek estimates that trafficking in women generates about $12bn (£6.6bn) a year, making it the third largest money-making venture in the world, after trafficking in weapons and drugs.