Published on Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org (http://www.rhrealitycheck.org)
By Mary Beth Hastings
Created Sep 15 2008 – 8:00am
Leading Voices
Sexuality Education
STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention
Women’s Rights
PEPFAR
prostitution pledge
sex workers
sex workers’ rights
In yet another example of the Bush Administration’s assault on public health and human rights using the unwieldy club of “morality,” it appears that the prostitution pledge will remain embedded in the forehead [...]
From Woodhull Freedom Foundation news letter
By: Carol Queen, Board of Directors WFF
Over the past two years, the Woodhull Freedom Foundation has become increasingly active in an important human rights issue-protection of sex worker’s rights. Last fall, WFF helped sex worker organizations put on the first-ever Sex Worker’s Leadership Institute. This year, we sponsored and participated in [...]
POLICY BRIEF
http://data.unaids.org/pub/Manual/2008/20080716_jc1513_policy_brief_labour_migration_en.pdf
Context
International labour migration—the movement of people across national borders for employment—is an increasingly important aspect of global, regional and national economies. Recent estimates indicate that 86 million people are international labour migrants.1 This policy brief focuses on the HIVrelated needs and rights of international labour migrants,2 regardless of their status as regular or irregular,3 [...]
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
http://www.usdoj.gov
OJP
Phone: (202) 514-2007
Task Force Members, Others Meet to Discuss Investigations and Services for Victims
ATLANTA – Associate Attorney General Kevin J. O’Connor today announced almost $10 million in additional funding to supplement existing task forces and to expand the number of task forces working with community-based organizations to combat human trafficking. The [...]
From Lambda Legal
‘In America, the police do not get to add an extra punishment to people they don’t like.’
(Johnson City, Tennessee, September 30, 2008) — Today Lambda Legal is filing a federal lawsuit in Tennessee on behalf of Kenneth Giles against Johnson City and its police chief. The lawsuit centers on the fact that the [...]
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By Melissa Ditmore
Created Oct 9 2008 – 8:00am
Recently on RH Reality Check [1], I examined the damaging effects on sex workers of a new law against prostitution in Cambodia. The perception on the ground is that the law was passed so that Cambodia could avoid sanctions associated with the [...]
29 September 2008 by laura agustin
I spent some years living in Spain, visiting, observing and thinking about different segments of the sex industry. It struck me from early on that the endless discussion of ‘prostitution’ failed to comprehend the variety within the industry – variety that could be seen as good, bad or indifferent but [...]
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR, Associated Press Writer
Fri Oct 3, 4:22 PM ET
As neon lights bathe the dance floor of the darkened nightclub, a group of young women from Latin America sit at tables, sipping water or soda and waiting for men to approach and hand them cash.
For $2, the women will dance one song. For $10, [...]
On Blake Hounshell’s blog, at Passport, a blog by the editors of Foreign Policy
Tue, 09/30/2008 – 2:00pm
Sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh of Freakonomics and Gang Leader for a Day fame thinks so:
One thing I’ve learned is that economic downturns can be boom times for high-end sex workers. Sex workers of the past waited on street corners, outside [...]
