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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewCausing harm while trying to help women in sex workA new campaign tries to educate well-meaning people on why they often end up harming sex workers, even when they're...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNow is the time to support sex workers’ rightsSex workers have suffered under the pandemic because most are excluded from both private and public support. Donors...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPhilanthrocapitalists stand in the way of direct aid, so we have no time for themSex workers and other marginalised communities are in desperate need of rights and direct cash assistance, no...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLong read: How the Nordic model in France changed everything for sex workersIn 2019, 10 sex workers were killed in France in the span of six months. Critics say that the Nordic model and its...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPolitics is the heart of all sex worker organisingSex workers’ organisations cannot content themselves with providing services to their communities. They must...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDebunking ‘Super Bowl sex trafficking’Effective outreach changed how the media reported on ‘sex trafficking’ for the 2018 Super Bowl. Will the lesson stick?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRepressing sex work in France in the name of women’s rights and migrants’ controlFrance’s shift to the Nordic model of sex work is a sign of deeper issues lurking just beneath the surface.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex workers seek rights-minded funderFunding sex worker activism is no longer taboo.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe path to prioritising safety for sex workers in CaliforniaThe groups that came together to transform sex worker safety in California only agreed on one thing: violence...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat’s so unacceptable about sex work? A framework for sex worker rights advocacyAn ILO framework can be used to push for including sex work within labour protection systems. Let’s put it to use.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRights, rescues and resistance in the global movement for sex workers’ rights – introducing the seriesThe rights of sex workers are slowly gaining more recognition, but far too many still need to keep their heads down...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySelling sex amidst the Philippine drug warSex workers in the Philippines have always been vulnerable to police violence. President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIt’s time for the anti-trafficking sector to stand up for decriminalisation of sex workUK politicians want to prevent trafficking by criminalising the clients of sex workers. The anti-trafficking sector...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTalking trafficking with Jamaican sex workersSex workers face more abuse from clients and police than from ‘traffickers’, but addressing that would mean...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen cops help sex workers rather than harass themIn one of the few countries in the world to decriminalise sex work, an unlikely alliance is now making it safer.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryScandals in sex worker rescue shelters: is ‘awful’ distracting from ‘lawful’?How should we channel concern over the growing number of anti-trafficking scandals?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe Sexelance: red lights on wheelsA converted ambulance, the Sexelance is a mobile sex clinic offering harm reduction to the street sex workers of Copenhagen.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPutting sex workers’ rights at the centreRegardless of your view on sex work, denying that it is a job only harms those engaging in it.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex work, labour unfreedom, and the law‘Free’ labour exists when it is guarded by a system of rights and protections. This places the vast majority of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAlmost legal: migrant sex work in New ZealandNew Zealand is lauded as the world's only country to fully decriminalise sex work, yet a catch makes that of little...
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