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PEPFAR recipients document how the pledge limits sex workers’ access to health care and increases their vulnerability.
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UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the UN Charter, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women, and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries …
Female sex workers in South Africa provide for an average of 4 adults and/or child dependants. Less than a third of female sex workers have permanent partners. This places a large responsibility on them to provide for their dependants as …
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An update on the important work that Sonke’s advocacy team is undertaking.
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The Asijiki Coalition recognises the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s outspoken public advocacy for sex workers’ rights.
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Sonke’s workshop explores how the ‘Anti-Prostitution Pledge’ impacts sex work health programmes.
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In this short interview Jesse McGleughlin interviews activist Zoe Black. They explore notions of belonging, home and ‘foreignness’ in relation to nationality, sexual orientation and occupation. Black’s experiences as “a black, migrant, woman sex worker who loves women” are explored …
Cathi Albertyn writes in Newsweek on possible reformations to be made to the Sexual Offences Act.
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The Swedish model to regulate sex work was introduced in Sweden in 1999 and subsequently in Norway (2009), Iceland (2009) and Canada (2014). It does not criminalise the selling of sex but it does criminalise the buying of sex and …
There are several different legal views on sex work. They vary from country to country. This fact sheet discusses the four most common legal models and their effects.
Many people in South Africa are religious. According to data from the 2001 census, around 80% of South Africans call themselves Christians, with smaller numbers of Muslims, Hindus, Jews and people who follow African traditional religions. The link between sex …
As a group, sex workers are at high risk of violence and other crimes. Like many other at-risk groups, they are over-policed but under-protected. This fact sheet describes present problems with the policing of sex work and sex workers. It …
More and more people are travelling abroad or within their own country to join family, find work or simply go on holiday. The 2011 census shows that South Africa is similar to other parts of the world, with foreign nationals …
Sex workers from all over the world have fought to use the term ‘sex work’ instead of ‘prostitution’ to show clearly that selling sex is a job and should be treated as one, rather than an abstract political or moral …
The United Nations says human trafficking is “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or …
The South African Constitution and international agreements such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) …
Sex workers are often at risk of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). For many people, this means that sex workers are a danger to public health and should be jailed or punished to protect the public. This ignores …
Feminism is a political belief system which believes women face many more problems than men in society today. It seeks to change this by creating equal political, economic, cultural and social rights for women. Feminism is linked to sex work …
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