Ensuring Human Rights of Sex Workers by Choudhary Laxmi Narayan, Mridula Narayan, Niska Sinha

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Addressing the needs and rights of sex workers for HIV healthcare services in the Philippines by Rowalt C Alibudbud

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SEX WORK, LAW, AND VIOLENCE: BEDFORD V. CANADA AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF SEX WORKERS by Graham Hudson, Emily van der Meulen

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Decriminalization and What Else? Alternative Structural Interventions to Promote the Health, Safety, and Rights of Sex Workers by Cecilia Benoit, Andrea Mellor

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“Difficult to Just Exist”: Social Media Platform Community Guidelines and the Free Speech Rights of Sex Workers by Amber Davisson, Kiernan Alati

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Unacceptable Forms of Work in the Thai Sex and Entertainment Industry by Leo Bernardo Villar

“…Protecting the human rights of sex workers and ensuring decent work in the Thai sex and entertainment industry necessarily involves the decriminalisation of sex work; amending labour and social protection laws, policies, and systems to be inclusive of sex workers; and ensuring implementation. …”
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Interview - Human Trafficking in Brazil: Between crime-based and human rights-based governance by Ela Wiecko V. de Castilho

“…Castilho discusses unresolved issues on rights of sex workers and migrants and points to a data collection methodology that was recently established and will allow for analysis of whether victims’ situations meet the international definition of human trafficking. …”
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Nigerian Migrant Women and Human Trafficking Narratives: Stereotypes, Stigma and Ethnographic Knowledge by Estefanía Acién González

“…This paper argues that the stereotypical image of the Nigerian migrant women as victims of abuse and violence by transnational trafficking networks functions to justify strict migration-control policies and the denial of labor rights to sex workers. As an antidote to the dominance of narratives based on stereotypes and pseudoscientific claims, this paper underscores the urgent need for ethnographic research and its focus on <i>emic</i> (participant) perspectives. …”
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Purity, Victimhood and Agency: Fifteen years of the UN Trafficking Protocol by Marjan Wijers

“…The call of the anti-trafficking movement for a human rights-based approach does not necessarily solve these fundamental problems, as it tends to restrict itself to protecting the rights of trafficked persons, while neglecting or even denying the human rights of sex workers and migrants.…”
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Brothels as Sites of Third-Party Exploitation? Decriminalisation and Sex Workers’ Employment Rights by Gillian Abel, Melissa Ludeke

“…Decriminalisation is arguably essential to protecting the human rights of sex workers. Nonetheless, there are suggestions that decriminalisation has less influence on sex workers’ experiences of working than many assume. …”
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Sex-workers Defying Patriarchy and Challenging State Reform and Rehabilitation Projects in India: Voices from the Margins by Shriya Patnaik

“…Consequently, the current approach to the rights of sex-workers is ridden with several structural barriers, as existing state reform projects often violate subjects’ bodily autonomy and act as moral discipliners, leaving them vulnerable to forms of systemic and institutionalised violence. …”
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An Overview of Criminal Laws in India in Relation to Sex and Sexuality by Choudhary Laxmi Narayan, Mridula Narayan, Kritika Agarwal, Lavanya Seth, Mridul Deepanshu

“…Recently, important developments have occurred, like decriminalizing the same-sex relationships, striking down adultery as an offence, introducing legislation for transgenders, ensuring human rights for sex workers and so on. A brief account of criminal laws in relation to sex and sexuality is given in this article.…”
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Justice and Civil Liberties on Sex Work in Contemporary International Human Rights Law by Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Marjan Wijers, Alison Jobe

“…The analysis leads us to conclude that the General Recommendation should define what counts as &#8216;exploitation&#8217;, and &#8216;forced labour&#8217;, and address the growing international recognition of best evidence on the wider impact of sex work laws, in order that legal framing and constructions of sex trafficking are not erroneously used to curtail rights of sex workers.…”
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Atos de cidadania europeia: uma sociologia política da mobilidade Acts of European citizenship: a political sociology of mobility by Claudia Aradau, Jef Huysmans, Vicki Squire

“…This is illustrated by an analysis of the 2005 Declaration for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe.…”
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The Chemsex ‘Consent Ladder’ in Male Sex Work: Perspectives of Health Providers on Derailment and Empowerment by Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Euan Ebbitt

“…The findings clarify the conditions of willing participation, the stepwise relationship to exploitation, and the support strategies that help re-empower individuals whose lives get taken over by chemsex, including peer-to-peer support, poly-centres, and smartphone apps to climb back up the consent ladder to improve the health, safety, and social rights of sex workers.…”
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Reviewing the Perspectives on the Relationship between Religious Beliefs and Sex Work: A Qualitative Systematic Review by Mokhwelepa Leshata Winter, Sumbane Gsakani Olivia

“…Recognizing and understanding these perspectives is essential for developing more inclusive and effective interventions and policies that address the needs and rights of sex workers within the context of their religious beliefs and communities.…”
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How client criminalisation under end-demand sex work laws shapes the occupational health and safety of sex workers in Metro Vancouver, Canada: a qualitative study by Kate Shannon, Bronwyn McBride, Shira M Goldenberg, Andrea Krüsi, Jennifer McDermid, Alka Murphy, Sherry Wu

“…Workers also noted that client fear of being prosecuted or ‘outed’ by police enhanced feelings of shame, which was linked to increased aggression by clients.Conclusion Policies and laws that criminalise clients are incompatible with efforts to uphold the occupational health and safety and human rights of sex workers. The decriminalisation of sex work is urgently needed in order to support the well-being and human rights of all those involved in the Canadian sex industry.…”
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Preventing sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) among sex workers: a critical review of the evidence on determinants and interventions in high-income countries by Elena Argento, Shira Goldenberg, Kate Shannon

“…Research suggests that multipronged structural and community-led approaches are paramount to addressing STBBI burden, and are necessary to realizing health and human rights for sex workers. Given the heterogeneity of sex worker populations, and distinct vulnerabilities faced by cis men and trans sex workers, further research utilizing mixed-methods should be implemented to delineate the intersections of risk and ameliorate critical health inequalities.…”
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Do Evidence-Based Approaches Alienate Canadian Anti-Trafficking Funders? by Alison Clancey, Noushin Khushrushahi, Julie Ham

“…As a sex worker support organisation, SWAN (Supporting Women’s Alternatives Network) Vancouver’s relationship to anti-trafficking funding remains ambivalent, particularly given the history of anti-trafficking measures that have jeopardised the rights of sex workers. In this article, we share how we, as a small grassroots group, attempt to work through these ambivalences in dialogue with donors. …”
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