International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

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[B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]On 'International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers,' Women Around the World Demand Rights, Not Rescue[/SIZE][/FONT][/B]
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The criminalization of prostitution is at the root of the risk sex workers face.[/SIZE][/FONT][/I]

[FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][URL="https://reason.com/people/elizabeth-nolan-brown/all"]Elizabeth Nolan Brown[/URL] | Dec. 17, 2015 2:15 pm[/SIZE][/FONT]


[URL]https://reason.com/blog/2015/12/17/end-violence-against-sex-workers-2015[/URL]

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[I]Each December 17, sex workers and their allies around the world commemorate the "International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers," joining together for memorial vigils and demonstrations from Alaska to Ireland to India. The day was launched in 2003 in response to the sentencing of the "Green River Killer," who murdered dozens of sex workers in Washington State throughout the 1980s and 1990s. But it's not just psychos and serial killers who put sex workers in dangerâ??a large share of violence against sex workers comes at the hands of cops.

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