Rahila Gupta wrote an ill informed piece about trafficking and the article written by Nick Davies. Nick Davies article entitled Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic, claimed that trafficking for sex had been exaggerated, and that the prosecutions from the Pentameter 1 and 2 police raids were evidence of this. Alas Rahila wrote a badly researched opinion piece Sex trafficking is no illusion which was factually incorrect.
Over three months later the Guardian has seen fit to mention this in its corrections section.
I give you a small taste of what they say, please read the whole article on the Guardian.
Gupta was wrong to say that Davies did not mention a home affairs committee report published in May last year (he referred to it twice in his page 6 article) and her claim that the report "gave an estimate of 5,000 trafficked women and children in the UK based on an aggregation of the figures provided by those working in this field" was incorrect. The 5,000 estimate covered all forms of human trafficking, including forced labour, and was not confined to the sex industry. The home affairs committee report referred to several figures and said there was currently no agreed estimate of the scale of sex trafficking into the UK. Gupta's assertion that Davies "only quoted sex-workers who feel their right to work as prostitutes is under attack" was not strictly accurate. Davies reported, in general terms, objections from sex workers to government proposals, but he did not quote any sex workers.
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