sex workers rights
Toward a Human Rights Approach to Sex Work Policy
by Kari Lerum
March 22, 2011 - 10:11pm (Print)
Sex worker activists and allies in the global movement for sexual health, justice, and human rights celebrated as the United States recognized the basic rights of sex workers.
Sex Worker Movement Building: What I've Learned From a Year of Professional Feminism
reader diary by Audacia Ray, International Women's Health Coalition
November 25, 2009 - 9:56am (Print)
The American sex worker rights movement has a long way to go, and we can learn a lot from activists in other parts of the world. For example, there are eight countries in Europe that accept sex workers trade unions branches in pre-existing unions. In India, I met sex workers who are illiterate and live in one room buildings without electricity - but they can talk fiercely about human rights, language which is all but absent from our movement.
