Violence & its Prevention
Articles, reports and recommendations about violence against sex workers
Listing last updated: July 22, 2006
- Violence and Exposure to HIV Among Sex Workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia By Carol Jenkins, the Cambodian Prostitutes' Union, Women's Network for Unity and Candice Sainsbury. Produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development, March 2006
- Violence Against Women: A statistical overview, challenges and gaps in data collection and methodology and approaches for overcoming them 15 Submissions on violence against women in the sex industry to the United Nations Expert Group Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, April 11-14, 2005
- Revolving Door: An Analysis of Street-Based Prostitution in New York City (PDF: REVOLVING.PDF) © Sex Workers Project Urban Justice Center (www.sexworkersproject.org), 2003.
Prostitutes reported a cycle of arrests that did not result in appropriate or long-term solutions for the community or for themselves. They also reported a systemic lack of attention to the violence committed against them. Eighty percent of street-based prostitutes interviewed had experienced or been threatened with violence while working.
- Ravaging the Vulnerable: Abuses Against Persons at High Risk of HIV Infection in Bangladesh (PDF: RAVAGE.PDF) Human Rights Watch, August 2003, Vol. 15, No. 6(C). (www.hrw.org)
Human Rights Watch found in investigations conducted in December 2002 that the Bangladesh government both commits and condones the commission of severe violations of the human rights of persons in all three of these high-risk groups, including peer educators who provide vital HIV prevention services. Both sex workers and men who have sex with men are regularly abducted, raped, gang-raped, beaten, and subject to extortion by the police and by powerful thugs termed mastans.
- Starting a Bad Trick Sheet first published in CASH (Coalition Advocating Safer Hustling) Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 3 July 1995.
- Final Report to UNAIDS: Police and Sex Workers in Papua New Guinea By Carol Jenkins, 1997.
"A peer educator-based intervention for police, aimed specifically at reducing the frequency of gang rape of sex workers, was launched in mid-1996 as part of a larger intervention with sex workers."
- Sex Workers and Violence Against Women: Utopic Visions or Battle of the Sexes? By Laura Ma Agustín. Development, Society for International Development, Vol. 44, No. 3, September 2001.
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uncovers some of the myths around sex workers and the men engaging their services within the context of building a movement to end 'violence against women'. She argues that totalizing all experiences of prostitution with a view to punishment and criminalization does not work and advocates a much more visionary and pluralistic approach."
- Trabajo sexual y violencia contra las mujeres: ¿Visiones utópicas o batalla de los sexos? (PDF: AGUSTIN-VIOLENCIA.PDF) Laura Ma Agustín. Publicado en Development, 44.3, 107-110 (2001).
En el movimiento social para construir un discurso de 'violencia contra las mujeres' y sensibilizar a la sociedad sobre algunos tipos de maltrato que antes no eran reconocidos, se ha llegado a un momento en que el objetivo se centra en definir crímenes y aplicar castigos.
- Silenced Victims Web site documenting serial killers of prostitutes. (Off site.)
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