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Bid to decriminalize sex work in South Australia defeated in Parliament
The latest common-sense campaign to decriminalize sex work in South Australia has failed, with the state’s Parliament voting against the bill this week. The House of
The latest common-sense campaign to decriminalize sex work in South Australia has failed, with the state’s Parliament voting against the bill this week. The House of
Fuckförbundet has created a new report, titled “20 Years Of Failing Sex Workers”, as part of their 2019 conference “Sex Work, Human Rights And Health: Assessing 20 Years Of Swedish Model”.
The lifting of the ban on massage parlors in St. John’s, Newfoundland is being deemed a really important first-step towards increasing the safety and rights
“Sex work is inherently work,” lawyer Jared Trujillo told The Times. “It’s how people feed their families. It’s how people put clothes on their backs.
We have previously reported on Washington D.C. considering the decriminalization of prostitution in the nation’s capital. This letter to the editor was published in Friday’s Washington
Sex workers cite safety as the main reason for working together and Rachel Bloom says the consequences of working alone can be dire A sex
Iowa mom Katherine Sears works part-time as a lawyer in the Hawkeye State – and as a brothel worker in Nevada. Mrs. Sears is very open
South African authorities are compromising the safety and wellbeing of women and obstructing efforts to end the HIV pandemic by treating sex work as a crime, Human Rights Watch and the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) said in a report released this month.
This excellent op/ed by Liesl Gerntholtz, acting program director at Human Rights Watch, was published Wednesday at Newsweek. It echoes the sentiments of every sex worker I know —
Sex workers are three times more likely to suffer violence when faced with “repressive” policing, a study by leading public health experts shows. Full decriminalization
The move may constitute the first step toward decriminalization of sex work in the state The California Legislature passed SB 233 last week, an exciting—and much
The FBI launched the ‘Operation Cross Country’ initiative over a decade ago to combat what they claimed was a rising tide of human trafficking, but
Prostitution should be decriminalized to protect the health and welfare of sex workers, British nurses say. The Royal College of Nursing is to start lobbying
ALBANY, New York — More than 100 sex workers came to the Capitol on Tuesday to lobby for two bills that they say would help
More than a dozen critics of criminal prostitution laws, including current and former sex workers, academics and defense attorneys, challenged Rhode Island lawmakers to go
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Tucked inside the second floor of the Redstone Building on 16th Street, more than 60 Mission residents packed into a room
In the SF Weekly, Nuala Sawyer reports that a new massage-therapist bill seeks to help victims of sex trafficking, but only further criminalizes those who engage
‘Prostitution paid for my daughter’s tap-dancing shoes’ St. John’s should have consulted sex workers before drafting new rules for massage parlours St. John’s, Newfoundland and
“For sex workers, the ongoing fight against stigmatization and criminalization is life or death,” writes Gaby Del Valle in a powerful essay. “If SESTA and FOSTA
In another astute piece, Juno Mac notes that when policymakers say the nature of commercial sex itself is the problem, they sidestep the less attention-grabbing
A former sex worker who led a successful campaign to decriminalize prostitution in New Zealand has been made a dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
Today, June 2, sex workers and their allies dressed in red and marched through cities across the Unitred States. The rallies came in recognition of
In a move that should be celebrated by civil libertians, sex workers and hobbyists, President Donald Trump corrected a historic wrong by posthumously pardoning Jack Johnson,
On June 2, International Sex Workers Day, members of BAPS (Bay Area Pros Support) and the noted sex worker clinic the St. James Infirmary will rally
In the summer of 2016, Canada’s Supreme Court called on all criminal justice system actors to undertake real, transformative change. The Jordan decision – one
After signing into law the keystone legislation of the moral panic over sex trafficking, President Trump considers a posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the first victim of the
A revenge porn extortionist, whose battle cries are “Great America Wins!” and “Taxation is Theft”, launched his campaign for Jeff Flake’s U.S. Senate seat last
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