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    Sex Workers, Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation in Ethiopia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    This case study explores economic, legal and social issues that affect sex workers, with a particular focus on the role of poverty in sex workers' lives and the potential for poverty alleviation policies and programmes to help lift as many sex workers as possible out of poverty in order to reduce the exploitation, illness and violence associated with their work.
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    Is Scale-Up of Community Mobilisation among Sex Workers Really Possible in Complex Urban Environments? The Case of Mumbai, India.

    PLoS ONE, 2015
    In the last decade, community mobilisation (CM) interventions targeting female sex workers (FSWs) have been scaled-up in India’s national response to the HIV epidemic. This included the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Avahan programme which adopted a business approach to plan and manage implementation at scale.
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    Map of Sex Work Law

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The interaction of law and poverty is a focus of the work on sex work of the Sexuality, Poverty and Law Programme of the Institute of Development Studies. As part of that work it has produced an online map of brief, accurate summaries of the laws and regulations that address female sex work across the world.
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    Towards a Legal Framework that Promotes and Protect Sex Workers’ Health.

    Health and Human Rights, 2013
    Complex combinations of law, policy, and enforcement practices determine sex workers vulnerability to HIV and rights abuses.
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    Can rights stop the wrongs? Exploring the connections between framings of sex workers’ rights and sexual and reproductive health.

    BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2011
    There is growing interest in the ways in which legal and human rights issues related to sex work affect sex workers’ vulnerability to HIV and abuses including human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
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    Feminism, Power, and Sex Work In the Context of HIV/AIDS: Consequences For Women's Health.

    Harvard Law School, 2011
    The recognition that women’s inequality may be a driver of women’s vulnerability to contracting HIV has led to a series of feminist legal responses in an effort to address HIV. One of the deepest fault lines between feminist legal reform projects to reduce the HIV vulnerability of women is on the issue of sex work.
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    The unfolding of gender gap in education

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    The gender gap in education against females becomes smaller as the level of development increases and turns in their favor in developed countries. Through analysis of regional variation in the gender gap within Turkey, which displays a similar pattern to the cross-country pattern, this paper studies the factors that lead to the emergence of a gender gap against females.
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    Intimate partner violence and family planning: opportunities for action

    Population Reference Bureau, 2015
    Intimate partner violence (IPV) - physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former partner - is an issue that women in all regions and all countries experience. Globally, approximately one in three women who have ever been in a relationship have experienced IPV. Women face a greater risk of violence from an intimate partner than from anyone else.
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    Family planning and human rights - what's the connection and why is it important?

    Population Reference Bureau, 2015
    That family planning saves lives is a simple health prescription that resonates globally. A critical challenge is to ensure that policies and programs embrace the well-established benefits of enabling women to choose whether and when to become pregnant - actions and values that are integral to human rights.
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    ICTs for Feminist Movement Building Activist Toolkit

    Just Associates (JASS), 2015
    Across the world, new technologies are revolutionising the way we communicate and form relationships and groups. This includes women supporting rights agendas, telling their own stories, and challenging emergent issues in regard to access, women’s voices, and violence.

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