Expanding from services to rights issues : the work of Zi Teng in Hong Kong : article produced as part of the KIC Project
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Abstract:
Many organizations that are working with sex workers have learned that it is ineffective to provide HIV and other health services to them if they do not consider – and address – sex workers’ work environments, where many cases of human rights violations can be found. Thus, they gradually move into rights-based activities. By reframing sex workers’ health as a rights issue, the focus of HIV prevention work with sex workers shifts from individual-level behaviour change communication to comprehensive development work aimed at sex workers’ empowerment, participation and self-organizing. It also opens the way to hold governments and non-governmental organizations accountable for denying rights to sex workers. This issue of Exchange magazine focuses on the relationship between HIV and sex workers’ rights. Most of the articles in this issue have been produced in the framework of the Oxfam Novib KIC Project. This article, by guest editor Yim Yuet Lin of Zi Teng in Hong Kong, gives an example of how her organization is working from a rights-based approach to sex work.
Authors:
Yim, Y.L.
Country:
Hong Kong
Category:
Practice
End Page:
6
Serial number:
1
ISSN:
[1871-7551]
Journal:
Exchange on HIV/AIDS, sexuality and gender
Keywords:
HIV and AIDS
,
disease prevention and control
,
human rights
Language:
eng
Organization:
KIT - Royal Tropical Institute
Year:
2007
Region:
East Asia
Right:
© 2007 KIT
Subject:
Health and Nutrition
Start Page:
5
Title:
Expanding from services to rights issues : the work of Zi Teng in Hong Kong : article produced as part of the KIC Project