As advocates worldwide mark the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers on Wednesday, a Miami-based, sex-worker-led organization renewed calls to decriminalize sex work. “ Somebody you ...

Across the African continent, we are witnessing a dangerous rise in the policing of women’s bodies and the silencing of voices that challenge patriarchal control. From attempts to roll back ...

At the beginning of September, South Africa’s Western Cape High Court will hear a case that could finally end the criminalization of sex work in the country. It’s a moment decades in the making, which ...

The Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival has been a biennial staple of the local sex workers' rights movement since 1999. Events at this year's festival, which ran May 15-24, included a day of ...

There is increasing attention paid to solidarity in global health, but its substance and definitions remain contested. We explore the tensions between global health institutions’ historic approaches ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Under normal circumstances, the sex workers arriving to their jobs at Sheri’s Ranch, ...

In Seattle, the Sex Workers Outreach Project-Seattle is leading the fight against policies that continue to criminalize sex work. Credit: Kelly O Emily Bazelon had an enormous piece in the Times ...

Even though the effort was abandoned by State Senator Nick Hinrichsen, a Pueblo Democrat and primary sponsor of the Decriminalize Adult Commercial Sexual Activity bill, a Christian argument can and ...

So far this year, police in Sweden have detained at least 13 women—including several foreign nationals, some who were subsequently deported—allegedly because they are sex workers, according to a news ...

The Supreme Court of Canada affirmed on Thursday the constitutionality of sex work-related offenses. The court held that the impugned offenses do not infringe the right to security of sex workers ...