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Amnesty International: should sex work be decriminalized?

7 Aug 2015


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“We speak to this issue from experience and evidence. Having many years of experience between us of work on sexuality-related human rights, we are seized by a sense of urgency on this issue. A report on sex work and the law in Asia and the Pacific, compiled by the UNAIDS joint programme on HIV/AIDS with the UNDP and UNFP, documents how adult sex workers are more likely to engage in safer sex practices when sex work is decriminalized.  At the same time, the report’s authors found no evidence that decriminalization increases the prevalence of sex work in the region –  an erroneous assertion often made by those who oppose decriminalization such as Equality Now and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.”

Sonia Corrêa and Susana Fried address the controversy around the new Amnesty International policy on decriminalizing sex work  from the perspective of feminists that for many years have worked in the overlapping fields of sexual rights and HIV/AIDS.  Read the full article

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