Why is Safe Harbor for All Minnesota's Best Model?
- SH4All would make Minnesota a national leader to promote justice and fight oppression by ending the criminalization of adult victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking.
- SH4All will increase funding for housing and services and decrease barriers to survivors leaving (such as finding employment and housing) because of a criminal record.
- SH4All raises awareness of harm done to those being sexually exploited and promotes education, training, and understanding of survivors’ experiences.
- SH4All will reduce the normalization of all forms of sexual violence, exploitation, and objectification (including sexual harassment, sexual assault, and legalized forms of exploitation in strip clubs and pornography)
- SH4All will promote increased visibility and accountability for exploiters and refocus criminal justice efforts on buyers and traffickers.
- SH4All affirms that victim/survivors have a right to access housing, employment, support services, and report crimes against themselves freely without the threat of being charged for prostitution. These criminal charges further entrap victim/survivors and create lifetime obstacles that prohibit these rights and their subsequent escape from harm.
- SH4All re-frames responsibility and places stigma where stigma belongs—associated with exploiters rather than those being exploited.
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