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  Trafficking and the Conflation with Sex Work: Implications for HIV Control and Prevention

  United Nations Development Programme, 2012

  The current dominant understanding of prostitution within some governments and within international organisations that provide policy guidance and recommendations to governments is based on the conceptual conflation of ‘human trafficking’ with ‘prostitution’ and ‘sexual exploitation.’ This conflation bears critical thinking, as lawmakers endeavour to use huma
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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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  Changing status of women and the phenomenon trafficking of women for transactional sex in Nigeria: a qualitative analysis

  2013

  This paper examines the changing status of Bini women occasioned by the upsurge and endemic nature of the trafficking of women for the purpose of transactional sex. It engaged ethnographic methods of data collection with the use of family-based interviews, focus group discussions using vignette stories, life histories, and key informant interviewing.
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  Changing their world: concepts and practices of women’s movements, 2nd edition

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011

  This collection of four case studies of marginalised women's attempts to organise and empower themselves and others is the 2011 update to AWID's Changing their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements. Covering sexuality, conflict, disability and sex workers, the case studies highlight the origins, structures and strategies adopted by feminist movements in challenging contexts.
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  Count me in! research report on violence against disabled, lesbian, and sex-working women in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal

  CREA, 2012

  Based on the first ever multi-country research study on violence against disabled, lesbian and sex-working women, this report from CREA, in partnership with University College London, collates the findings that have emerged and presents recommendations.

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