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This document is a record of meeting notes and includes quotes from attendees of the 2000 meeting.

ALL ISSUES OF RESEARCH FOR SEX WORK CAN BE FOUND HERE.

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Empowerment of sex workers and HIV prevention - I. Wolffers 1

Community-led HIV prevention by southern African sex workers - Z. Mzaidume et al. 6

HIV prevention strategies among female sex workers in the Dominican Republic -
L. Moreno and D. Kerrigan 8

Legalisation and decriminalisation: The Brazilian experience - G. Leite 11

Empowerment for sex workers? Notes from the Philippines - E. Ratliff 12

54/158. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

The General Assembly,

Reaffirming once more the permanent validity of the principles and norms set forth in the basic
instruments regarding the international protection of human rights, in particular the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, on trafficking in women, women's migration and violence against women, submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1997/44.

You can download this 38 page PDF resource above. This resource is in English.

The global flow of money, goods, culture and ideas has been accompanied by a global flow of people. Yet, with increasing migration levels, also various exploitative and abusive forms of migration have become more prevalent. Attention for the topic of trafficking in migrants has found so far most resonance within human rights organizations, numerous non-governmental and international organizations, bodies and lobby networks, as well as in sensationalist media. The approches, definitions, and interpretations of trafficking among these different groups and organizations have varied enormously.