The National Vigilance Association (NVA) was a British society established in 1885. Its goal was to combat prostitution, particularly forced prostitution by children. It has been described as the main social purity organization in the United Kingdom.Richardson, A. (2003). Love and eugenics in the late nineteenth century : rational reproduction and the new woman. Storbritannien: Oxford University Press.
History The National Vigilance Association (NVA) was established August 1885 "for the enforcement and improvement of the laws for the repression of criminal vice and public immorality".Rachael Attwood, "Stopping the Traffic: the National Vigilance Association and the international fight against the ‘white slave’ trade (1899–c. 1909)." Women's history review 24.3 (2015): 325-350. online
The Association was established in response to articles exposing child prostitution published by W. T. Stead in the Pall Mall Gazette. Stead became a member of its council.
It was founded to support the 1885 Criminal Amendment Act and enforce it by combating prostitution, rape and the abduction and kidnapping of women and girls for prostitution, and to protect women in risk of sexual exploitation.Louise Settle, S. (2016). Sex for Sale in Scotland: Prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1900-1939. Storbritannien: Edinburgh University Press.
The NVA was internationally active as a central international organization within the movement against the white slave trade, and was a British representative at the international congresses arranged with its equivalents in other nations to fight the international sex trade. Från vit slavhandel till trafficking: En studie om föreställningar kring människohandel och dess offer. Hallner, Ann. Stockholms universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Historiska institutionen. 2009 (Svenska) Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0345-469X, E-ISSN 2002-4827, Vol. 129, nr 3, s. 429-443
See also Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts Vaksamhet Internationaler Verein Freundinnen junger Mädchen
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