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  Risk, Morality and Blame: A Critical Analysis of Government and US Donor Responses to HIV infections Among Sex Workers in India

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2004

  This paper is one of a series on gender and HIV in India, which since 1995 has received 67 million US dollars for its AIDS control program. It examines the effectiveness of strategies by the Government of India, with this assistance from the US, to address the vulnerabilities of adult female sex workers.
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  Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation between Venezuela and Ecuador

  Survivors Rights International, 2003

  Why does trafficking for sexual exploitation occur, and what can be done to combat it?
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  Still Waiting After 60 years: Justice for Survivors of Japan's Military Sexual Slavery System

  Amnesty International, 2005

  In war zones all over the world crimes of sexual violence, including rape, are used as a weapon of war. However, despite such human rights violations, these crimes generally go unpunished and survivors are left with no redress.
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  Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Japan

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  Every year thousands of women are trafficked into Japan from countries in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Lured by the promise of better jobs and salaries, women arrive in Japan to find themselves in debt to organised crime groups and forced to work in Japan's sex industry.
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  The ??Natasha?? Experience: Migrant Sex Workers from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in Turkey

  Pergamon, 2002

  Women have been migrating across the world in increasing numbers and the sex industry remains one option for work in host countries. This paper looks at the case of migrant sex workers from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in Turkey, documenting sex workers' experiences in Istanbul.
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  Sex Workers Struggles in Bangladesh: Learnings for the Women's Movement

  BRIDGE, 2005

  This paper describes the involvement of Naripokkho, a Bangladesh non-governmental organisation (NGO), in a national campaign to support the rights of sex workers. Naripokkho supported sex workers' efforts to defend themselves against illegal government eviction orders from brothels in Bangladesh.
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  Not So Strange Bedfellows: Sexual Rights and International Development

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

  Is sexuality less important than poverty? This article, based on a session facilitated by BRIDGE at the 2005 Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID) conference, explores the connections between development and sexuality. The speakers argue that sexuality is itself a survival issue.
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  The pleasure project: global mapping of pleasure

  The Pleasure Project, 2004

  How can a focus on pleasure help promote safer sex? The Pleasure Project mapped initiatives taken around the world which use pleasure as a primary motivation for promoting sexual health.
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  Key Gender Resources

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  What are the key recent writings on gender in Chinese? This paper provides an initial selection of twenty one pieces, made by Beijing gender activist and journalist Feng Yuan. These include official, academic and activist resources from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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  Sex Lives in the Aids Era

  2004

  This book proposes that to prevent AIDS, instead of always just talking about risk, safer more enjoyable sex lives should be promoted. This book argues that the sex workers are not transmitters of HIV/AIDS but are the first line of victims. The real infectors are the men who go whoring and have other sexual partners. Among these the most dangerous infectors are the men who do not use condoms.

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