Latin American and Caribbean Sex Workers: Gains and challenges in the movement
@article{Cabezas2019LatinAA,
title={Latin American and Caribbean Sex Workers: Gains and challenges in the movement},
author={Amalia Luc{\'i}a Cabezas},
journal={Anti-Trafficking Review},
year={2019},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:159172969}
}This article challenges the notion that the organised sex worker movement originated in the Global North. Beginning in Havana, Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century, sex workers in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region have been organising for recognition and labour rights. This article focuses on some of the movement’s advances, such as the election of a sex worker to public office in the Dominican Republic, the system where Nicaraguan sex workers act as court-appointed judicial…
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