Sydney Adult Entertainment: New Website Launched on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
December 22, 2009
The PLRI is an alliance formed by sex workers, researchers and human rights advocates to generate and consolidate research about sex work, analyse policy and strategically communicate findings of evidence for policies and programmes that improve the lives of male, female and transgender sex workers. Grounded in the perspectives of the global sex workers rights movement, PLRI is committed to meaningful participation of sex workers and all our work involves sex workers. PLRI core partners are the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) UK, Global Network of Sex Work Projects, Monash University, Australia and the Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation (CASAM), India.
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17 December provides an opportunity to reflect on why research is needed to provide evidence to guide measures to protect sex workers from violence and exploitation. Sex workers from all over the world have long argued that criminal laws against sex work render them vulnerable to abuses, including unprotected sex and lack of access to services and justice. But many countries continue to criminalise sex workers and sex worker organisations everywhere receive frequent reports of violence.
See the full article from “Institute of Development Studies”
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