Feminist Review
27 Jul 2010
Vampire mania has taken hold and Sonia Shah’s “The Fever” goes back in time before Twilight and even Dracula to the first vampires: mosquitoes and their parasites. Shah tells a good story, and this story has everything from drama and risk to villains...
RH Reality Check
22 Jul 2010
A recent report by Human Rights Watch describes the abuse of sex workers by Cambodian police, who declared open season on sex workers in the wake of a new anti-trafficking law that criminalizes sex work. The new law was a response to the perennial...
guardian.co.uk
25 Jun 2009
As the global economy shrinks, human trafficking is on the rise – and it extends far beyond prostitution.
RH Reality Check
23 Jun 2009
The State Department’s new Trafficking in Persons report suggests that the Obama administration will opt for evidence-based responses to trafficking over putting restrictions on women “for their own good.”
guardian.co.uk
16 Apr 2009
Nevada’s innovative $5-a-time sex tax would have given something back to the state’s prostitutes.
RH Reality Check
17 Oct 2008
Around the world, people turn to sex work in the hopes of earning a living wage – and maybe even to support their families. But misguided policies routinely deny them that right.
RH Reality Check
19 May 2008
Understanding the distinction between trafficking and sex work is crucial, because Congress is poised to re-authorize the federal law against human trafficking with new provisions that will both increase penalties for sex workers and effectively decrease...
RH Reality Check
5 May 2008
Even those who mean well sometimes confuse the human rights abuse of trafficking in persons with the human occupation of prostitution, or sex work. It’s understandable because of the history of the two fields, but it creates rather than solves problems...
Women's Network for Unity
31 Dec 2006
A report on the stigmatization of sex workers in Cambodia.