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Sex Work: Africa

 

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Northern Africa

Morocco

On Legalizing Prostitution. Morocco Board Dec 5 2010


Western Africa

Cameroon

Red Cross supports peer education. Reuters Nov 29 2007


Eastern Africa

 

Kenya

Chege. Childcare practices of commercial sex workers. E Afr Med J 2002 (abstract)

Robinson. Risk-Coping through Sexual Networks. BREAD 2011 (pdf)

 

Malawi

Ties of Dependence: AIDS and transactional sex in rural Malawi Swidler 2006[1] 

 

Mozambique

Minister calls for recognition of sex workers' rights. All Africa Nov 5 2007

 

Uganda

NSWP Supports Sex Workers in Uganda and Their Right to Organise. Nov 22 2010 

 

Southern Africa

 

Rights not Rescue: Female, Male, and Trans Sex Workers' Human Rights in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Open Society Institute 2009  

 

South Africa

Law and Policy

Human Science Research Council supports decriminalisation. Pretoria News Dec 1 2007

S Africa Criminalises Purchase of Sex. Saturday Star Dec 15 2007[2]

 

Ellen Jordan, Louisa Johanna Francina Broodryk, Christine Louise Jacobs v. The State, Constitutional Court of South Africa 2002 

 

Research

Henry Trotter: Navigating Risk - Sugar girls and Seamen 2007

 

Support and Advocacy

SWEAT: Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce

 

Media

Prostitutes sick of arrests when they're off duty.  The Times, Johannesburg April 30 2011 

 

Swaziland

UNFPA/NECHA Sex Work Situation Analysis

Report on Sex Industry IRIN December 2007

Swazi Observer Dec 16 2007

 

National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS

 

Zambia

The economics of sex work. IRIN April 12 2011  

Suggested Books

Gould and Fick. Selling Sex in Cape Town ISS 2008 (online version)

Wanjohi Kibicho. Sex Tourism in Africa: Kenya's Booming Industry. Ashgate, Farnham 2009

Henry Trotter. Sugar Girls & Seamen. Jacana, Johannesburg 2009

 

 

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Last updated:
May 11, 2011

 

 

Dr Michael Goodyear, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

For any problems, please contact: mgoodyear@dal.ca



[2] Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 2007 (Bill B5-2003) s.11 In force Dec 16 2007

Text (pdf)

Press Release. Dec 13 2007