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Putting sex workers’ rights at the centre

Regardless of your view on sex work, denying that it is a job only harms those engaging in it.

By Chus Álvarez
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In 2018 the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) published the research ‘Sex workers organising for change.’ The research documents how sex worker rights organisations in seven countries address the various abuses in the sex industry and how they deal with the daily discrimination they face. The author led the research for GAATW in Spain.

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