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It’s all too easy to miss the point about sex work in areas hit by conflict and disaster. How about listening to the people who experience it?
Zimbabwe’s new president, Emmerson Mnagagwga has offered a glimmer of hope to LGBT people in the country.
A unified voice that gets heard.
South Africa’s data rollout of its pre-exposure prophylaxis shows that there is a relatively slow, but increasing, uptake. However, more needs to be done to target young women.
“Gritty,” “authentic” are words of praise often used for TV director David Simon: No less so with The Deuce, his new series about the rise of the porn industry in New York City in the 1970s.
Consensual sex work, like non-commercial sex, mostly happens behind closed doors. Yet stigma toward and ignorance about sex workers makes people panic when we try to talk about reform.
Understanding laws that govern sex work can be complicated and confusing, especially because laws are not uniform globally, or even within each country.
July 30 marks the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. How can computer scientists help combat this problem?
South Africa has launched a plan to tackle HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections – but much depends on its implementation over the next five years.
Rio’s sex workers were hoping the 2016 games would also boost their trade – but they were wrong.
When we think of post-traumatic stress disorder, we tend to think of soldiers returning from war. But other sections of society are far more likely to suffer from repeated bouts of trauma.
Governments and campaigners are keeping schtum when it comes to webcamming. It’s time to break the silence.
The laws regulating the sex industry are a mess – MPs are doing an important job examining them.
Empirical evidence and a recommendation from Amnesty International are making it increasingly difficult for naysayers to ignore the ways that sex workers are harmed by criminalization.
Verbatim theatre is being adopted more and more to give a voice to marginalised communities in the hope of instigating social change.
It’s been more than 40 years since a French sex workers strike kicked off a lively global human rights movement, but their legacy lives on.
Is the status quo really that bad? Our expert talks us through the arguments about the ‘oldest profession’.
Ignoring the protests of Hollywood actresses, Amnesty International has come out for the decriminalization of prostitution.
Both sides of the debate claim to have the evidence, but only one is right.
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Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Political Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Cultural Studies; Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, Bothell
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Research Associate, King's College London
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Adjunct professor, Carleton University
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Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary
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Lecturer in Literature and Film Studies, Keele University
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Director of Implementation Science, Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer at Brunel University, University of Kent
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Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Loughborough University
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Professor in Criminology, University of Leicester
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Northumbria University, Newcastle