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unusual facts about sex workers' rights


Sex workers' rights

So far, the organization has influenced policy in certain countries and has interacted with the president Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva in Brazil.


ACHP

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, an international human rights instrument that seeks to promote and protect human rights and basic freedoms in the African continent

Authors' rights

WALTIC (Writers’ and Literary Translators’ International Congress)

Barbara Margolis

Barbara Ann "Bobbie" Margolis (October 4, 1929 – July 3, 2009) was an American prisoners' rights advocate who served as the official greeter of New York City under the administration of Mayor of New York City Ed Koch.

DrugWarRant

It has a Bulletin Board System, a blog, and other functions, including a comprehensive guide to the Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich, a case dealing with medical marijuana and states' rights.

Dylan Ryan

Outside of porn, Ryan is pursuing an MSW in order to work as an advocate for sex workers in her native San Francisco, which she was also doing before she began her adult film career.

Jagannath Sarkar

After joining the Communist Party, he moved to the working class areas of Bihar and then Jharkhand, were, in the 1940s and 1950s, he engaged in campaigns for miners' and colliery workers' rights.

Juba Kalamka

In 2005, Kalamka was contacted by artist and sex worker advocate Annie Oakley (whom he'd met at the Olympia, Washington queer arts fest HomoAGoGo) and accepted an invitation to tour with The Sex Workers' Art Show, a month long cross-country cabaret style theater event featuring current and former sex worker artist/activists.

Kellelo Justina Masafo-Guni

Kellelo Justina Masafo-Guni (born December 8, 1945 in Leribe, Lesotho) is a Justice on the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.

Leo Igwe

In 2009, Igwe represented the International Humanist and Ethical Union at the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in Banjul, Gambia, where he spoke out on the IHEU's behalf against caste-based discrimination in Africa.

Munir Hussain

Munir Hussain and victims' rights, British businessman and community leader imprisoned for attacking a burglar

National Minimum Drinking Age Act

When brewing magnate Pete Coors raised the drinking age as a campaign issue during the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Colorado, Republican leaders praised his stand on States' rights but distanced themselves from apparent self-interest.

Nursing home residents' rights

In 1980 the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act was passed to protect the civil rights of, amongst others, residents of nursing homes and similar facilities.

Participatory design

The Talbot Reserve in St Kilda faced numerous problems of use, such as becoming a regular spot for sex workers and drug users to congregate.

Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001

The Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, 2001 (PPVFR Act) is federal legislation enacted by the Parliament of India to provide for the establishment of an effective system for protection of plant varieties, the rights of farmers and plant breeders, and to encourage the development and cultivation of new varieties of plants.

Second Bill of Rights

Later in the 1970s, Czech jurist Karel Vasak would categorize these as the "second generation" rights in his theory of three generations of human rights.

William Lowndes Yancey Law Office

As one of the leading Southern Fire-Eaters, he gained national influence as an aggressive advocate of Slavery and States' Rights and exacerbated sectional differences that led to the secession of the Southern states from the Union.


see also

Bobai County

The small office of a grassroots NGO for sex workers' rights was ransacked and its leader Ye Haiyan was also attacked.

Prostitution in Brazil

Fernando Gabeira founder of the Green Party has been a strong voice for sex workers' rights in Brazil and introduced legislation in Congress to recognise prostitution as a profession.