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Transgender Day of Remembrance

Reader diary posted by Melissa Ditmore

November 20, 2009 - 11:14am

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Transgender Day of Remembrance is important because violence against anyone is unacceptable, no matter their gender.


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The Crusade Against Sex Trafficking: "Sister, Why Doesn't Anything Change?"

By Noy Thrupkaew

October 14, 2009 - 6:00am

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Gary Haugen is cradling the padlocks in his thick hands. A former high school football player--bristly crew cut, broad shoulders squeezed into a dress shirt--Haugen has more the mien of a military man than a lawyer, although his image is in keeping with the muscular work of the organization he founded and heads. The president of the International Justice Mission, an evangelical Christian organization devoted to combating human rights abuses in the developing world, Haugen is musing over the mementos of IJM's work in India and Cambodia.


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my review of Siddarth Kara's book Sex Trafficking

Reader diary posted by Melissa Ditmore

September 10, 2009 - 2:35pm

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I reviewed Siddarth Kara's book. He is strong on structural issues but his book turns to salacious material and hero fantasies.


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Criminalizing Sex Work to Combat Trafficking: Rhode Island Considers the Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem

By Andrea Ritchie, Sex Workers Project, Urban Justice Center

September 3, 2009 - 7:00am

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The State of Rhode Island seems poised to take a significant step backwards on its legal treatment of both sex work and trafficking when legislators resume their session this fall.

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Research for Sex Work 11 is online

Reader diary posted by Melissa Ditmore

July 6, 2009 - 12:11pm

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Research for Sex Work 11 is online. It's the only journal of its kind, with contributions from sex workers, health workers and NGO staff. Articles from India, Mali, Spain, the UK and the US, illustrated with beautiful photographs by Mathilde Bouvard, discuss pleasure and sex work, the failures of raids to help trafficked persons, violence against sex workers and more.


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Geishas and Whores

By Atlasien, Racialicious

May 26, 2009 - 8:00am

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A lot of people, especially white people, are invested in defending geisha, in putting them on a pedestal. And when they do that, it does harm to Japanese-American women and to all Asian-American women.

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Good News On U.S. Anti-Trafficking Policy

By Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School

April 2, 2009 - 7:00am

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The White House's appointment of Luis de Baca to be the head of the Trafficking In Persons office suggests that it appreciates the importance of a harm reduction approach to the problem of trafficking.

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She-roes Visit Washington to Share Victories Working with Women in the Sex Sector

By Jamila Taylor, CHANGE

March 31, 2009 - 7:00am

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Does U.S. foreign policy combat HIV and trafficking, or combat women working in the sex sector?

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Resisting the Sex Panic: Sex Workers Struggle for Evidence-Based Regulation in Nevada

By Melissa Gira Grant, RH Reality Check

February 10, 2009 - 8:00am

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In rural Nevada, the possible expansion of the brothel industry has sex workers hoping to be given a central role in governing their own industry, rather than being seen as at-risk women who require protection from themselves.

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SF's Proposition K: Changing the Landscape for Sex Workers

By Sienna Baskin and Melissa Ditmore, Sex Workers Project

October 28, 2008 - 8:00am

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Proposition K, San Francisco's measure to prohibit the use of public funds to enforce laws criminalizing prostitution, would change the landscape for sex workers in the city in critical ways.

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