Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights: Global Inequities, Challenges and Opportunities for Action

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Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights: Global Inequities, Challenges and Opportunities for Action

April 28, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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About the Event

International book launch of Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights: Global Inequities, Challenges and Opportunities for Action

 

Event description from the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE)

Please join us for the International book launch of Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights: Global Inequities, Challenges and Opportunities for Action WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. EST.

The event features a live conversation with co-editors:

  • Dr. Shira Goldenberg (CGSHE & SFU),
  • Dr. Stefan Baral (Johns Hopkins) and
  • Ruth Morgan Thomas (Global Network of Sex Projects).

There will also be greetings from co-authors from across the globe and a word from the Open Society Foundation.

Don’t miss the audience Q&A plus your chance to WIN a free copy of the book!

ABOUT THE BOOK: Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights is the first comprehensive global text co-written by sex workers, sex worker-led organizations and academics about sex workers’ diverse health and human rights needs. Drawing upon community case studies and data from around the world, the book highlights the sustained health and social inequities that sex workers in all of their diversity experience in 2020. It also showcases successful interventions and the resistance, resilience and creativity of the sex work community in the face of these challenges.

About the Chapter

Dr. Brooke West collaborated with Empower Thailand, a sex worker run collective, to contribute a chapter on occupational health, safety and rights in indoor sex work venues.

The overall goal of this chapter was to highlight the organizing efforts of Empower Thailand and to identify how occupational health and safety frameworks that are rooted in decriminalization and the advancement of collective efficacy, are essential for reducing health inequities and advancing the human rights of sex workers.