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In 2007, Dr. Raymond received the "International Woman of the Year Award, 2007" from the Zero Tolerance Trust, in Glasgow, Scotland. A longtime feminist activist against violence against women and sexual exploitation, as well as against the medical abuse of women, Janice Raymond was Co-Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) from 1994-2007. CATW is an international NGO having Category II Consultative Status with ECOSOC with branches in many world regions. Janice Raymond has been in the forefront of the campaign to get prostitution recognized as violence against women and one of the worst forms of gender inequality. Organizing projects and testifying in many different parts of the world opposing legalization of the sex industry, Raymond has encouraged governments instead to provide services and alternatives for women in prostitution and to legislate against the purchase of women and children for sexual activities. Raymond has promoted innovative prevention projects in different countries that discourage the demand for prostitution, a root cause of sex trafficking, challenging young men to a different standard of masculinity and enlisting them in the campaign against sexual exploitation. In 2000, she co-published one of the first studies on trafficking in the United States entitled, Sex Trafficking in the United States: Links Between International and Domestic Sex Industries. In 2002, she directed and co-authored a multi-country project in the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Venezuela and the United States, entitled Women in the International Migration Process: Patterns, Profiles and Health Consequences of Sexual Exploitation. In January 2004, Dr. Raymond testified before the European Parliament on "The Impact of the Sex Industry in the EU." In 2003, Raymond testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. Congress on "The Ongoing Tragedy of International Slavery and Human Trafficking." In March, 2000, she was an NGO member of the Official U.S. Delegation to the Asian Regional Initiative Against the Trafficking of Women and Children (ARIAT), Manila, the Philippines, hosted by the governments of the Philippines and the United States. In 1999-2000, as an NGO representative to the UN Transnational Crime Committee, in Vienna, she helped define the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime. Janice Raymond has also also served as an expert witness at criminal trials opposing legal status for brothels. Dr. Raymond is the author of five books and multiple articles, translated into several languages, on issues ranging from violence against women, women's health, feminist theory and bio-medicine. She has published numerous articles on prostitution and sex trafficking. She lectures internationally on all these topics. OpEdNews Member for 216 week(s) and 2 day(s) 1 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 0 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls 1 Articles
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