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		<title>Sex Workers Rights :  a glass half full or half empty ?</title>
		<link>http://plri.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/sex-workers-rights-a-glass-half-full-or-half-empty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheryl Overs Advocacy for sex workers’ rights is a mountain of challenges.  Not only is constructive dialogue impeded because the language is contested, but sex workers rights are problematised by confusion with various forms of sexual abuse. Sex workers have very limited opportunities to input, and those outside the US and Europe have little access [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=972&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Penina Mwangi on New Law in Kenya.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALLAN OLINGO   Interview with Penina Mwangi the Executive Director of Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme, Kenya      What’s Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP)? The mission of Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) is to influence policy and facilitate provision of quality health services, human rights awareness, legal services and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=964&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LA REDTRABSEX ECUADOR Denounces Abuses of Sex Workers in Quito</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Williams via Elena Reynaga Wednesday, Feb 7. LA REDTRABSEX ECUADOR  La Red de Trabajadoras Sexuales de Latinoamérica y El Caribe today publicly denounced the abuses of human rights persecution and violence against the organisation Redtrabsex de Ecuador that happened lastThursday, for the part played by the police force in Quito. Due to the constant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=950&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t expect Barbados to be legalising prostitution.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claudette Kay and Miriam Edwards want sex workers in the region to be treated fairly. (Kenmore Bynoe) Sex workers in the Caribbean want to be treated fairly and given the same respect as other people involved in demanding professions. Miriam Edwards, president of the Caribbean Sex Work Coalition, Kay Forte of Guyana and Claudette Johnson [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=947&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hungary&#8217;s Constitutional Court Bans Mandatory Health Checks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary&#8217;s Constitutional Court has annulled a legal provision requiring sex workers to provide a doctor&#8217;s certificate on the ground that it conflicts with article 17 of the 1950 New York Convention. The ruling is to come into force on December 31 this year. The reason given for its Monday ruling is that the certificate demanded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=942&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the Ugly Mug then ? &#8211; policing violence against sex workers in the UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cheryl Overs That December 17, the day against violence against sex workers is the big day in the sex workers rights calendar  speaks volumes.  Violence against sex workers and inadequate police responses are the single biggest issue I have encountered in all my time as a sex workers rights activist. Violence has been at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=933&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ugandan sex workers petition Parliament over HIV bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, 13th December, 2010 By Madinah Tebajjukira SEX workers have petitioned Parliament over the HIV prevention and control bill which they say promotes discrimination among some people and that it violates human rights. Through their umbrella organization:Womens Organization Network for Human Rights Advocacy (WONETHA), the sexual workers petitioned the Speaker of Parliament demanding an urgent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=926&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The NSWP : sex workers rights in action.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Un; sex work; UNFPA; Commission Law HIV; OSI; Morgan Thomas; Cheryl Overs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Cheryl Overs At the Vienna Aids Conference earlier this year I arrived to the  finale of the NSWP  pre-meeting for sex worker delegates. It was a great moment to go in to a room with over a hundred activists from all over the world who had been working all day planning sex worker participation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=914&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>STOP &#8211; feminist violence against sex workers</title>
		<link>http://plri.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/stop-feminist-violence-against-sex-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leena Neena “ The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) has been for years delivering a clear political statement committed to work towards a Europe free from prostitution, by supporting key abolitionist principles which state that the prostitution of women and girls constitutes a fundamental violation of women’s human rights, a serious form of male violence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=904&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Tourism and Trafficking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Megan Rivers-Moore (This is one of a series of weekly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) &#8230; [D]iscussion of trafficking, a much talked about but often poorly understood topic, is at the forefront of concerns about migration, labour, and sexuality. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5646837&amp;post=896&amp;subd=plri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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