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    Documenting human rights violations of sex workers in Kenya. A report based on a study conducted in Nairobi, Kisumu, Busia, Nanyuki, Mombasa, and Malindi towns in Kenya

    Federation of Women Lawyers – Kenya, 2008
    This report details the abuses experienced by sex workers throughout the country, and analyses the policy framework that undermines sex workers' access to rights. Pervasive stigma and discrimination against sex workers and a lack of legal recourse leaves sex workers disenfranchised and vulnerable to human rights violations.
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    Creating an enabling legal and policy environment for sex workers

    United Nations Population Fund, 2010
    This thematic discussion paper for the Consultation on Sex Work and HIV in Asia and the Pacific captures many of the complex issues around sex work and law. Among its recommendations are:
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    Prostitution, public health, and human-rights law

    The Lancet, 2000
    Sex workers are entitled to enjoy universal human rights. However, the complexity of their legal status, compounded by international human rights laws, places sex workers in a situation where health protection or promotional activity can rarely be expected to succeed.
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    Recognize sex work as legitimate work

    Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2008
    In this article, Elena Reygana, a sex worker and activist, and president of La Red de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales de Latinoamérica y del Caribe (Redtrasex), argues that it is not sex work per se that makes sex workers vulnerable to HIV, but the policies that repress them.
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    HIV/AIDS, gender and sex work

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003
    This short fact sheet outlines the key issues and HIV risks associated with sex work in many parts of the world including:
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    UNAIDS Guidance Note on Sex Work

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2009
    This Guidance Note from UNAIDS has been developed to provide the UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat with a coordinated human-rights-based approach to promoting universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in the context of adult sex work.
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    Violence and exposure to HIV among sex workers in Phnom Penh

    USA Agency for International Development, 2006
    The evidence in this report from USAID reveals that the successful national HIV/AIDS programme in Cambodia has failed to protect the rights of sex workers as women and as citizens. This study, conducted among a sample of 1,000 female and transgender sex workers in Phnom Penh identifies that:
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    Sampada Gramin Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM)

    Sangram is a voluntary organization that works at the grass root level with a lot of activists, volunteers and paid workers.
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    Demystifying sex work and sex workers

    Wagadu, 2011
    Wagadu, an open access online feminist journal, produced a special issue on 'Demystifying sex work and sex workers.' With articles from activist scholars and sex workers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Mexico, Thailand, Uganda and the U.S., the special issue, focuses on the everyday lives of sex workers.
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    Regional policy and model legislation to address HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination

    Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2010
    This publication, commissioned by CARICOM, is a desk review report of existing legislative frameworks affecting people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families in eleven countries in the Caribbean.  The study highlights findings around stigma and discrimination and the legal frameworks as presented below:

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