Access Denied: Sex workers’ exclusion from COVID-19 relief in the United States
This short article provides an overview of the US government’s response to COVID-19 and the exclusion of sex workers from pandemic relief. It details the impacts of this exclusion, including how sex workers and advocates were forced to prioritise emergency service provision over longer-term policy g...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Anti-Trafficking Review |
| Online Access: | https://antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/717 |
| Summary: | This short article provides an overview of the US government’s response to COVID-19 and the exclusion of sex workers from pandemic relief. It details the impacts of this exclusion, including how sex workers and advocates were forced to prioritise emergency service provision over longer-term policy goals. The article concludes that the exclusion of sex workers from COVID-19 relief is part of the US government’s broader history of discriminating against people involved in the sex trades and hindering advancements in policies to protect sex workers’ human rights. |
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| ISSN: | 2286-7511 2287-0113 |