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Who stole the tarts? By Sandhya Rao and Cath Sluggett A critique of human rights as they apply to sex workers From CASAM: The Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation.
Posted: September 24th, 2009, 1:07pm PDT by apnswdollhouse
Paradoxical and shocking though it may seem, human rights are being used to violate sex workers rights. The very framework of human rights does this because it depends on interpretation – and interpretation is easily laced with social prejudice. When, as is often the case, sex work is interpreted as removing a woman’s ‘dignity’, and [...]