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“The key demand of the sex workers’ movement in Burma, in Asia and all around the world is simple. We demand that sex work is recognized as work. But we have one other key demand, specific to certain parts of the women’s movement. We demand that we are not treated as victims.”
22 May 2012 | RH Reality Check
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I don’t believe that HIV-positive escorts are callous and intend to infect their clients so they can make a quick buck. I think it’s important to explore the complex dynamics of sex, money and power that are at play.
21 May 2012 | Frontiers L.A.
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) expresses its concern over recent actions by Greek authorities involving the arrest, detention, mandatory HIV testing, publication of photographs and personal details, and pressing of criminal charges against at least 12 sex workers. There is no evidence that punitive approaches to regulating sex work are effective in reducing HIV transmission among sex workers and their clients.
11 May 2012 | UNAIDS press release
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We are writing to call your attention to two issues of urgent and serious concern in Greece: (1) the administrative detention and compulsory medical testing of immigrants and asylum seekers based on health status and (2) the arrest, criminal prosecution and compulsory HIV testing of sex workers.
11 May 2012 | Human Rights Watch
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The AIDS 2012 secretariat will partner with the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) to organize two conference hubs off-site in India and Ukraine to ensure the participation of those delegates who cannot attend the XIX International AIDS Conference event in Washington, D.C., taking place 22-27July.
10 May 2012 | AIDS 2012 press release
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Indoor sex workers face potentially life-saving benefits, including less violence, reduced exposure to HIV and improved relationships with police, says a new Vancouver study.
10 May 2012 | Vancouver Sun
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These practices are a violation of sex workers’ human rights, their right of freedom, privacy, and the confidentiality on their health condition. They are discriminatory and in complete contradiction with all international and EU treaties that Greece has ratified.
09 May 2012 | Change.org
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HIV criminalization has compounded, and added a new and frightening dimension to, the longstanding idea that female sex workers are a source of pollution threatening the cleanliness of men.
03 May 2012 | The Times That Belong To Us
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Greek authorities announced the arrest Wednesday of 17 HIV-positive women who allegedly worked illegally as prostitutes, accusing them of intentionally causing serious bodily harm. The names and photographs of 12 of the women were published on the Greek Police's website, angering human rights advocates who said it was unclear whether the women were aware they had HIV.
03 May 2012 | The Associated Press
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One arm of the government is giving people condoms. Another arm is confiscating them from the very people who are most vulnerable to catching bugs and passing them along. How, precisely, does this make sense?
26 April 2012 | New York Times
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