Justice committee  Based on everything I have observed, read, and heard in the years I have been doing research on sex work, I certainly have not observed those outcomes. If anything, people who I have interviewed for my research, when asked, “What do you wish could change?”, often said, “I would l

Justice committee  I think there's a real stereotype there, where we're seen as being this kind of isolated place in the middle of nowhere. However, as you said, we have a huge movement of people coming in and out of New Zealand, certainly before the pandemic. The past years have been a bit differe

Justice committee  I think the difference that we have in New Zealand is, because we define sex work as work, we can quite easily distinguish between human trafficking and sex work in the same way that we can distinguish between any form of work and human trafficking. As we know, human trafficking

Justice committee  Thank you. My name is Dr. Lynzi Armstrong and I am a senior lecturer in criminology at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. My research focuses on how laws impact the rights, safety and well-being of sex workers, and I began doing research in New Zealand in 2007.