Sex work, trafficking and HIV: How development is compromising sex workers’ human rights

Development with a Body: Sexuality, Human Rights and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 54-66

  Ditmore, Melissa ^a,b  

^a Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)   (United Kingdom)

^b the Sex Workers Project   (United Kingdom)

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