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Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Sex Workers: Asking the Tough Questions

  • When
  • July 13, 2011
    5:00–10:30 a.m. (EDT)
  • Where
  • New York, NY

Policy experts and human rights advocates will meet in New York to discuss critical questions on rights-based responses to promoting the human rights of sex workers and how these issues relate to children in prostitution, sex trafficking, and other critical human rights issues.

Debates rage over what legal and policy environments would best promote and protect those engaged in selling sexual services. What is often lost in this debate is what happens to the lives of people engaged in sex work as a result of the laws, policies, and programs that are intended to protect them.

The discussion will take place as part of the International Human Rights Funders Group meeting.

Speakers include:

  • Meena Saraswathi Seshu, General Secretary, SANGRAM (India)
  • Ruth Morgan Thomas, Global Coordinator, Global Network of Sex Work Projects
  • Deon Haywood, Executive Director, Women With a Vision
  • Françoise Girard, Director, Open Society Public Health Program

Individuals can register for the meeting online at www.ihrfg.org.

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