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Research Fellow, Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University.
In August this year, Amnesty International (AI) took an important stand to promote and protect human rights by endorsing an internal policy to support the decriminalisation of sex work. In the lead up to this decision, public debate on the buying and selling of sex raged on in a battle of open letters and online petitions, praising and condemnin...
In 1994, 179 UN member countries made a visionary commitment in Cairo at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). Amidst sustained advocacy by 30,000 NGO representatives, delegates came to a negotiated consensus that individual health and wellbeing, the protection and promotion of human rights, and the advancement of se...
