sex worker's rights

Can We End Violence Against Sex Workers?

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by Chi Mgbako

December 16, 2010 - 6:29pm (Print)

Our staunch moral judgment of individuals who by choice or circumstance participate in the sex industry results in the shattering silence around incidents of rapes, assaults, and murders of sex workers.

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Violence Against Indigenous Canadian Sex Workers

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Aboriginal sex workers are subject to dual discrimination, experience high rates of violence, including murder, and high rates of HIV among other outcomes associated with violations of their human rights.

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Domestic Violence Against Sex Workers in Cambodia

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by Chan Dyna and Keo Sichan and Melissa Cockroft

December 16, 2010 - 6:13pm (Print)

Little attention is given to violence experienced by sex workers from those closest to them: their husbands, boyfriends and partners.

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Stigma and Violence Against Transgender Sex Workers

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by Khartini Slamah and Sam Winter and Kemal Ordek

December 16, 2010 - 5:50pm (Print)

Doubly stigmatised, transgender sex workers experience violence from the public, customers, their ‘sisters,’ and the police.

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Report: Sex Workers Face Widespread Abuses of Civil and Human Rights

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by Penelope Saunders

November 4, 2010 - 12:48pm (Print)

A recent report on the sex trade illustrates how stigmatization and criminalization of sex workers in the United States result in widespread abuses of civil and human rights.

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Anti-Prostitution Pledge Results in Discriminatory Treatment

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by Melissa Ditmore, Independent consultant

October 9, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

Sex workers' health care is often sacrificed on the altar of U.S. funding.

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Jamaican Health Official Calls for Sex Work Decriminalization

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by Danielle Toppin, RH Reality Check, Caribbean

July 7, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

A senior public health official in Jamaica recently called for decriminalization and taxation of commercial sex work. Other government officials decried the proposal, but have few effective suggestions of their own.
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Christian Conservatives Seek to "Restore" Women

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by Kathryn Joyce, RH Reality Check

June 27, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

A leading figure in the Christian right anti-trafficking establishment, Linda Smith embodies the tensions between feminists and religious right activists working on this issue.

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Punishing Sex Workers Won't Curb HIV/AIDS, Says Ban-Ki Moon

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by Melissa Ditmore, Independent consultant

June 24, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

Add United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the list of people who understand that arresting and punishing sex workers is counter-productive in the battle against HIV/AIDS. And take the government of Cambodia off that list.
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Prostitute Numbers Expected to Jump During DNC

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by J. C. OConnell, Colorado Confidential

April 16, 2008 - 8:48am (Print)

Denver's goal to make August's Democratic National Convention eco-friendly could overshadow other important issues - such as the spike in prostitutes being imported to town to cater to the city's 35,000 guests.

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