Trafficking of women in this country is certainly alarming. However everything seems to indicate that the government is manipulating the statistics to use them for their own benefit. The Prisma’s Memoirs. July 2012. _ César Amaya Sandino There are no definitive statistics for it, but those that do exist […]
Tag: rights
Prostitution in the UK (II): Criminalisation and stigma
There are more English women than foreigners working in the sex industry, although the Government and the Police say otherwise. However, public opinion polls show that people think women should be able to work in the sex industry without being persecuted. The Prisma’s Memoirs. July 2012 _ César Amaya Sandino […]
Cristina: “If you don’t know your rights, they may be abused”
Cristina is one of a generation of Latin American immigrants who emigrated to Spain as a child and who now, thanks to her Spanish nationality, can build a future for herself in other EU countries. She is a relatively recent arrival to the city of London, arriving from Madrid […]
Homosexuality and religious intolerance
The social and political discourse against equality of rights between heterosexual and homosexual couples refers to homosexual practice as “unnatural”, if not quoting religious dogma. Has there been a reduction of homosexuality in the world driven by the lack of rights that homosexuals have? Do they “correct” the unnatural side […]
Integration and the limits of tolerance
Clearly the issue of multiculturalism is ultimately about social change. This is together with the capacity to live in a ‘tolerant’ way with other groups that hold diametrically opposing beliefs. . Nigel Pocock . But what if these groups believe in tyranny, whether of theocracy, materialism, secularism or of any […]