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Research paper thumbnail of The Case for Decriminalization of Sex Work in South Africa

Georgetown Journal of International Law, 2017

Activists for sex worker rights in South Africa are leading a sophisticated national campaign to ... more Activists for sex worker rights in South Africa are leading a sophisticated national campaign to decriminalize sex work.1 This Article serves as an act of solidarity with these activists’ continued efforts to fight for and realize sex workers’ human rights by examining the negative impact that criminalizing prostitution has on sex workers’ rights and presenting evidence-based arguments to show that South Africa should enact legislation to fully decriminalize sex work. South African sex workers’ real-life experiences with violence, police abuse, and lack of access to health care and the justice system, highlighted through interviews conducted by the authors during fieldwork in South Africa in November 2011, are included in this Article as testimony to the human rights violations caused by the criminalization of sex work. Part I demonstrates how the legal frameworks of criminalization, partial criminalization, and legalization and regulation of sex work are costly, ineffective, and ha...

Research paper thumbnail of The Case for Decriminalization of Sex Work in South Africa

Georgetown Journal of International Law, Jun 22, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The Case for Decriminalization of Sex Work in South Africa

Georgetown Journal of International Law, Jun 22, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The Case for Decriminalization of Sex Work in South Africa

Georgetown Journal of International Law, 2017

Activists for sex worker rights in South Africa are leading a sophisticated national campaign to ... more Activists for sex worker rights in South Africa are leading a sophisticated national campaign to decriminalize sex work.1 This Article serves as an act of solidarity with these activists’ continued efforts to fight for and realize sex workers’ human rights by examining the negative impact that criminalizing prostitution has on sex workers’ rights and presenting evidence-based arguments to show that South Africa should enact legislation to fully decriminalize sex work. South African sex workers’ real-life experiences with violence, police abuse, and lack of access to health care and the justice system, highlighted through interviews conducted by the authors during fieldwork in South Africa in November 2011, are included in this Article as testimony to the human rights violations caused by the criminalization of sex work. Part I demonstrates how the legal frameworks of criminalization, partial criminalization, and legalization and regulation of sex work are costly, ineffective, and ha...

Research paper thumbnail of The Case for Decriminalization of Sex Work in South Africa

Georgetown Journal of International Law, Jun 22, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The Case for Decriminalization of Sex Work in South Africa

Georgetown Journal of International Law, Jun 22, 2013

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