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  Listen to sex workers: support decriminalisation and anti-discrimination protections

  Posted: December 19th, 2011, 3:10pm PST by cheryl

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  Article in Interface: a journal for and about social movements, Volume 3(2): 271 - 287 (November 2011).

  Despite the massive achievements of the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria and the historic significance of this important organisation, sex workers as a community and the funds we had attracted drew an unhealthy level of interest from the health and community sector, stemming from a perception that sex workers were politically unable to run their own collective, and that the funds we had lobbied for could be better spent by people who were not sex workers.

  Year of publication:  2011 Theme:  Health and HIV Theme:  Human Rights and Law Author:  Elena Jeffreys, Audry Autonomy, Jane Green, Christian Vega Relevant URL:  Download the article for free

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  Fiji Cracks Down on Sex work

  Posted: December 11th, 2011, 4:04pm PST

  off THE military regime in Fiji is taking on a new target: sex workers

  A report published today by the University of NSW says sex workers, especially in Lautoka, the centre of Fiji’s sugar industry, north of Nadi, have been rounded up by the military and subjected to sleep deprivation, humiliation and forced physical labour.

  Karen McMillan, a researcher with the International HIV Research Group at UNSW, said the sex workers were held in outdoor pens at an army base, woken every three hours and made to do duck-walks and squat in the mud.

  Year of publication:  2011 Theme:  Health and HIV Theme:  Human Rights and Law Risky_Business.pdf Author:  Karen McMillan and Heather Worth

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  Violence against sex workers is prevalent in Cambodia with customers and the police often the perpetrators.

  Posted: December 5th, 2011, 3:45pm PST

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  Passed to protect women, the 2008 law on human trafficking and sexual exploitation has been used by authorities to justify the harassment and abuse of sex workers.

  But, Cambodian sex workers say it’s now time to demand their rights.Hundreds are gathered in the capital of Phnom Penh.They are clapping loudly as the host welcomes the first day of 16 days of activism against gender violence.They are wearing white shirts with the slogan: "United we can end violence against women and bring the peace."

  Year of publication:  2011 Theme:  Health and HIV Theme:  Human Rights and Law WNU Anti Violence Protest 2011.doc Author:  WNU
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  What is a representative sex worker?

  Posted: December 5th, 2011, 3:31pm PST by cheryl

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  The claim that the sex workers’ rights movement is a purely white, western phenomenon is one of abolitionism’s biggest falsehoods. In fact, Global South sex workers could teach their Northern counterparts a thing or two when it comes to organising for sex workers’ rights. Here is a videoclip of sex workers in Sonagachi, Calcutta, marching against criminalisation of their industry.

  Theme:  Gender and Sexuality Theme:  Health and HIV Theme:  Human Rights and Law

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