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		<title>Could trade unions for sex workers save the day?</title>
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December 17 is the international day to end violence against sex workers
Imagine being told, as a child, how Mary Magdalene, Esmeralda from the Notre-Dame de Paris and Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman joined a trade union, and asked for better rights. Pretty Woman didn’t want to work for week-long shifts. Esmeralda wished to get paid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demystification.wordpress.com&blog=3097447&post=39&subd=demystification&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Disabled people will be the first to be affected by the law”</title>
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Home Office plans to tackle demand for prostitutes by criminalizing clients are likely to affect disabled people who pay for sex, UK Sex workers have said. 
“The way they want to change the law is to make it illegal to pay for sex. Disabled people will be the first to be affected by the law”, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demystification.wordpress.com&blog=3097447&post=36&subd=demystification&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://demystification.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/tlctrust/</link>
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		<title>The ID database might threaten sex workers’ livelihoods</title>
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Concerns have risen within the sex workers community of how the identification techniques employed by the police force are going to affect them in the backdrop of a government crackdown on street sex work.
Dr. Anne Killett from the University of East Anglia worked on the academic evaluation of the Ipswich street prostitution strategy, which saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demystification.wordpress.com&blog=3097447&post=32&subd=demystification&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://demystification.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/nationaldatabase/</link>
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		<title>Parliament meets: Sweden vs. New Zealand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an old story, in a way. Back in January the &#8220;Safety First Coalition&#8221; participated in a debate at the Parliament to discuss the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill. The Swedish solution was discussed along New Zealand&#8217;s decriminalisation of prostitution. 
Catherine Healy, a founding member and national co-ordinator of the New Zealand Prostitutes&#8217; Collective, also appointed by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demystification.wordpress.com&blog=3097447&post=26&subd=demystification&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://demystification.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/parliamentmeeting/</link>
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		<title>Untitled</title>
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		<link>http://demystification.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/untitled/</link>
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		<title>Male prostitutes: where are they in the equation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are they considered in the various legislations? According to a study by the University of Exeter, male prostitutes are often discriminated in the law, even in countries where prostitution is legal. Much less data is available and collected on male prostitutes than on female. Health services and clinics made available for prostitutes offer female-oriented assistance. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demystification.wordpress.com&blog=3097447&post=22&subd=demystification&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://demystification.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/maleprostitute/</link>
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		<title>The Abolitionist Argument</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2003, the Scottish government enlisted the University of London to do a comprehensive analysis of outcomes of prostitution policies in other countries. The researchers chose Australia, Ireland, and the Netherlands to represent various strategies of legalizing and/or regulating prostitution. The outcomes in the states under review that had legalized or regulated prostitution were found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demystification.wordpress.com&blog=3097447&post=21&subd=demystification&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://demystification.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/abolitionism/</link>
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		<title>Students resort to prostitution to pay fees in the UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past two years there have been frequent reports [1] [2] [3] of female students resorting to prostitution to pay for the rising tuition fees. The research, conducted by Kingston University has found that in the past 6 years there has been a 50% rise. As 130 students were asked whether they had any friends involved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demystification.wordpress.com&blog=3097447&post=20&subd=demystification&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://demystification.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/students-resort-to-prostitution-to-pay-fees-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<title>The issue of Human Trafficking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations had found human trafficking to be the most profitable criminal enterprise in the world, after weapons and narcotics.
This is not surprising considering that &#8220;For those who stand to benefit from this crime, human trafficking remains almost the perfect business. Supply is constant, with large numbers of people crossing countries and borders in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demystification.wordpress.com&blog=3097447&post=19&subd=demystification&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://demystification.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/human-trafficking/</link>
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		<title>Sweden&#8217;s attempts at abolishing the oldest profession in the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since 1999, prostitution in Sweden is considered a crime and a violence against women. The Swedish Parliament was then composed of nearly 50% women. 
What about male prostitutes?
In five years the number of women sex workers in Sweden has dramatically decreased. According to the Women&#8217;s Justice Center, the number of women in street prostitution has been reduced by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demystification.wordpress.com&blog=3097447&post=17&subd=demystification&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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