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Helping sex workers help themselves

Laws criminalising prostitution have done incredible damage to sex workers over the years but they have never succeeded in ending the practice. For that reason alone they should be opposed. Español

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Red Umbrella March for Sex Work Solidarity on 11 June 2016. Sally T. Buck/Flickr. (CC 2.0 by-nc-nd)

NAIROBI – Once, when I was meeting with a sex workers’ group in a brothel in Kenya, the women there got a call that one of their members had been found, dumped near a river with deep cuts on her face, hands, and thighs.