This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices.
Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights is the first global [open source] textbook co-written by sex workers and academics about sex workers' diverse health and human rights’ needs. Drawing upon community case studies and academic research from around the world, the book highlights the sustained health and social inequities that sex workers in all of their diversity face. It showcases successful interventions and the resistance, resilience and creativity of the sex worker movements in the face of challenges.
Sex workers in India are speaking out against a study by academics from Yale School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School.
Yale Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) has released two complementary analyses on prostitution “diversion” programs (PDPs) in the USA: Diversion from Justice: 'A Rights-Based Analysis of Local ‘Prostitution Diversion Programs’ and their Impacts on People in the Sex Sector in the United States'; and 'Un-Meetable Promises: Rhetoric and Reality in New York City’s Human Trafficking Intervention Courts'. One is national in scope and the other focused specifically on New York City programming.
Karnataka Sex Workers Union held protests and spoke out about recent attempts to conduct invasive unethical research on sex workers, without proper community involvement. In a press release issued on 18 March, 2017 entitled “Sex Workers don’t need sympathy! Sex workers need workers rights!!” the Union spoke about the various ways the research report in question “violates research methodologies, research ethics and several national and international protocols/guidelines.”
Cette article est une vue d'ensemble et une critique de la cartographie, les estimations de la taille de la population et des codes d'identification uniques et la façon dont ils sont utilisés. Les pratiques de cartographie des lieux où les travailleurSEs du sexe vivent et travaillent, et la création d'estimations de la taille de la population, sont de plus en plus courante. Certaines des menaces associées à ces pratiques et les stratégies qui sont utilisées pour maintenir la sécurité des gens et des données confidentielles et sécurisées, sont discutés. Un guide communautaire est également disponible.
