End Violence Against Sex Workers Day 2010
Treating Violence Against Sex Workers as a Hate Crime
by Rosie Campbell and Shelly Stoops
December 16, 2010 - 7:40pm (Print)
Over the last decade sex work projects, the police and other agencies in Liverpool (United Kingdom) have been addressing violence against sex workers, encouraging reporting and taking crimes committed against sex workers seriously.
Can We End Violence Against Sex Workers?
by Chi Mgbako
December 16, 2010 - 7:29pm (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.
Police Violence And Sex Workers in Europe, Central Asia
by Anna-Louise Crago and Aliya Rakhmetova and Acacia Shields
December 16, 2010 - 7:23pm (Print)
The state consistently fails to punish police who commit violence against sex workers.
Violence Against Indigenous Canadian Sex Workers
by Emily van der Meulen and Jessica Yee and Elya M. Durisin
December 16, 2010 - 7:17pm (Print)
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.
Domestic Violence Against Sex Workers in Cambodia
by Chan Dyna and Keo Sichan and Melissa Cockroft
December 16, 2010 - 7:13pm (Print)
Little attention is given to violence experienced by sex workers from those closest to them: their husbands, boyfriends and partners.
Stigma and Violence Against Transgender Sex Workers
by Khartini Slamah and Sam Winter and Kemal Ordek
December 16, 2010 - 6:50pm (Print)
Doubly stigmatised, transgender sex workers experience violence from the public, customers, their ‘sisters,’ and the police.
