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Why the Women’s Rights Movement Must Listen to Sex Workers

Posted in Labour & Work, Sexuality on November 1st, 2012 by AWID Staff

In 2008 the US Government gave Malaysia the lowest rating in its annual Trafficking In Persons Report. Rather than address the real labour trafficking issues, the government set out to close down the sex industry. Now nearly all brothels in KL have been shut. Sex workers are forced to work in dangerous and difficult conditions […]

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