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The New Humanitarian examines the aid system’s ‘double standards’ on sex workers

Sidney Falco — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:35:08 +0000

From the estimable Paula Dupraz-Dobias for The New Humanitarian: In their policies, many aid groups recognize the agency of sex workers while in practice framing them as victims, says Anna Shapiro, policy lead at Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), an organization advocating for sex workers’ health and human rights. “They’re supposed to provide humanitarian assistance […]

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Sex Workers Sue Canadian Government Over Disastrous, Wrong-Headed PCEPA

Cliff Hanger — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:17:02 +0000

Oppressive present-day laws in Canada make it impossible for sex workers to make a living without severe discrimination because of the criminalization of their clients. The current constitutional challenge against the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) differs from Canada’s Bedford case in a crucial ways. As reported in Chateline, Jane Li supported her family through […]

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ACLU: Sex Work is Real Work, and It’s Time to Treat it That Way

Sam Langhorne — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:32:31 +0000

Long overdue and quite welcome from the ACLU: Sex workers aren’t always a part of the conversation about police brutality, but they should be. Police regularly target, harass, and assault sex workers or people they think are sex workers. The police usually get away with the abuse because sex workers fear being arrested if they […]

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Kaytlin Bailey: Protect and empower New Hampshire’s sex workers

Sam Langhorne — Sun, 24 May 2020 18:24:09 +0000

A terrific Op/Ed by Kaytlin Bailey, director of communication for Decriminalize Sex Work On May 18, the New Hampshire Union Leader published an op/ed “Sex work is not work” by Jasmine Grace, founder of Jasmine Grace Outreach, one of many organizations raising awareness about human trafficking by conflating it with adult consensual prostitution. Among many […]

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Sex work advocates blast Queens, NY DA’s plan to prosecute buyers

Sam Langhorne — Fri, 22 May 2020 21:14:55 +0000

Less than a year after Democrat Melinda Katz told one LGBTQ political club that she backed the outright legalization of sex work and conveyed to another queer club that she would focus on prosecuting “human traffickers or those who force people into sex work,” the top prosecutor in Queens, NY is singing a different tune now […]

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With Election of Anti-Sex Work Democrat Melinda Katz as DA, Queens, NY Faces Nordic Model-Style Crackdown

Sam Langhorne — Thu, 21 May 2020 15:18:50 +0000

In 2019, the nation’s most diverse county narrowly missed a major opportunity to embrace sex work decriminalization. A little less than a year later, the implications of the loss are being revealed. In the 2019 Democratic primary for district attorney in New York City’s Queens County, Tiffany Cabán, a high-profile former defense attorney who ran […]

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VA Legislators Grapple with Changing Bawdy Place, Prostitution Laws

Sam Langhorne — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 23:22:48 +0000

This year’s Virginia General Assembly session has seen quite a few outdated morality laws removed from the books, but Del. Mark Levine still sees more to be done, specifically where Virginia’s “bawdy place” law is concerned. The General Assembly passed measures this session repealing restrictions on sexbefore marriage, swearing in public, and being a “habitual […]

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London tube filled with adverts promoting sex work decriminalization

Sam Langhorne — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 19:35:11 +0000

Posters advertising the movement for the decriminalization of sex work have appeared across the London tube in a bold adhacking campaign.

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Pornhub Teams Up With SWOP-USA for International Women’s Day #IWD

xxxReporter — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:54:38 +0000

For International Women’s Day, the folks at Pornhub are pleased to announce that they have once again partnered up with Pornhub has donated $50,000 to Sex Workers Outreach Project — USA (SWOP-USA) to celebrate and support women and their achievements, challenge inequality and stereotypes, and work together to create a gender equality world! This March […]

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Malta: ‘Decriminalization is the safest way for sex workers to work’

xxxReporter — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:28:08 +0000

Decriminalization is the safest way for sex workers to work, a sex worker and activist in the field, told the The Malta Independent. Speaking on condition of anonymity, she said that she has been working in the industry for well over a decade. “Decriminalization gives full service sex workers the freedom to screen and refuse […]

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