Can rights stop the wrongs? Exploring the connections between framings of sex workers rights and sexual and reproductive health

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  Overs, Cheryl ^a   Hawkins, Kate ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; LAW; LAW ENFORCEMENT; POLICY; PROSTITUTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SAFETY; SEXUAL HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 83755196434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-11-S3-S6     Document Type: Review

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