Women's Health, Studies, and Feminist Ethics
Sex
Work: Asia
Index
Resources
Asian
Centre of Excellence in Sex Work Research and Policy
Regional Convenor:
Sarasu Thomas
South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC):
Sex Workers (1999)
Media
Himal Southasian
August 2010 - Sex and Work: The dignity of labour
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Legalisation
discussed. August 2007
Kyrgystan
Gulnara
Kurmanova. Transgender sex work.
Border Thinking July 24 2009
Eastern Asia
China
Media
Shenzhen's public humiliation of sex
workers provokes a backlash. NY Times Dec 8 2006
As Vice Dragnet Recalls Bad Old
Days, Chinese Cry Out. NY Times Dec 13 2006
The Plight of China’s Xiaojies (Sex
Workers) Crossroads March 29 2009
China 'trusts prostitutes more' BBC August 4 2009
Organisations
Research
Pirkle et al: female sex workers in China
- Vectors of Disease? STD 2007 (abstract)
Zheng T. Anti-Trafficking Campaign and
Karaoke Bar Hostesses in China. Wagadu
2008 (pdf)
Goodyear M. Incarceration of sex workers in
China STI 2008
Books
Zheng T. Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China. University of Minnesota 2009
Reviews: Feminist Review
Burris and Xia.
The “Risk Environment” for Commercial
Sex Work in China: Considering the Role of Law and Law Enforcement Practices,
in Poston DL et al. (eds.) Gender Policy and HIV in China
Hong Kong
Policy
University of Hong Kong: Submission to Legislative Council 2006
Support
Articles
Wong et al: The health
of female sex workers in Hong Kong. HKMJ 2003
Japan
South Korea
Media
S Korean sex workers rally against police crackdown. AP
News May 17 2011
Taiwan
News
Sex workers protest industry ban. Taipei Times Sept 7 2007
Red light fight: sex
work in Taiwan. Global Post Nov 29 2010
Taipei Union of Legal and Illegal Prostitutes for Self-help (TULIPS)
COSWAS: Collective of Sex Workers and
Supporters (Chinese)
COSWAS celebrates 10th Anniversary. Taipei Times Dec 11 2007
Southern Asia
Bangladesh
John Davies:Anti-Trafficking activities: a danger to the
mobility of the Bangladeshi poor? (pdf)
India
Government
Part
III: Fundamental Rights
Protection of life and
personal liberty
21. No person shall be deprived of
his life or personal
liberty except according to procedure
established by law.
Legislation
Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act
1956[1]
Reports
Resource
Book on the Legal Framework on Anti Human Trafficking 2008 (pdf)
History
The Courtesans of Lucknow
Veena Talwar
Oldenburg
Lifestyle as Resistance: The Case of
the Courtesans of Lucknow, India. Feminist Studies
1990 (pdf)
Lifestyle as Resistance: The Case of the
Courtesans of Lucknow, in
Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash
(eds.) Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South
Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991 pp. 23-61.
(excerpt) Afternoons in the kothas of Lucknow (2007)
Policy
Proposed legislation to criminalise clients. Times of India Sept 10
2007
Health Ministry opposes
proposal. Times of India Nov 24 2007
Editorial: Sex work is no
crime. Times of India Dec 12 2007
Sex worker advocates
score victory against stigmatization in India. RH Reality Check March 3 2009
Organisation
and work
Editorial: Sex, work, pleasure.
Times of India April 10 2007
Organising helps sex workers to
bank earnings. Reuters Dec 7 2007
Research
Ghose. The Role of Brothels in
Reducing HIV Risk in Sonagachi, India. QHR
2011 (abstract)
Prabha Kotiswaran (ed.) Issues in Contemporary Indian
Feminism: Sex Work 2011
Media
For sex workers, post-repatriation life is often
more traumatic. Times of India August 22 2009
Poverty,
not pleasure, forces women into prostitution: Court. Siasat
Daily Feb 14 2011
Sex
workers rue discrimination against their children. Deccan Herald March 7 2011
Prostitutes
don't want to be treated like commodities. DNA April 10 2011
NGOs rally for safety of woman sex workers. Times of India April 11 2011
Organisations
CASAM- Center
for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation
The
First Pan-India Survey Of Sex Workers: A summary of preliminary findings. April
2011 (pdf)
Sex work legislation - Solution or Problem? 2010
Sex workers Meet Law Makers. March 1 2011
Pakistan
Louise Brown: Lahore's red-light district. Sexualities Oct 2007
(abstract)
South-Eastern Asia
Burma
UNIAP: Human Trafficking Data Sheet
March 2009 (pdf)
Cambodia
Government
The Law on Suppression of Human
Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation 2007
Organisations
Cambodian Alliance for Combating
HIV/AIDS (CACHA)
Policies Environment
Regarding Universal Access and the Right to Work of Entertainment Workers in
Cambodia 2009
KHANA: Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance
Mapping the patterns of sex workers 2008 (pdf)
Pisey Ly at AIDS 08 Mexico City
Media
Study slams trafficking law. Phnom
Penh Post July 23 2009
Groups blast US sex-work policies.
Phnom Penh Post Oct 28 2010
Human
Rights Watch
Off the Streets: Arbitrary Detention
and Other Abuses against Sex Workers in Cambodia 2010
Commentary
Human Rights Watch: Sex Workers Face
Unlawful Arrests and Detention. July 20 2010
Research
Philippines
Organisations
WHORE (Women Hookers Organizing for
their Rights and Empowerment)
Media
Meredith Ralston: Hope in Heaven 2006 (film)
Books
Reviews
Thailand
Books
Last
updated: October 20, 2011
Dr Michael
Goodyear,
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