Using Human Rights to Hold the US Accountable for its Anti-Sex Trafficking Agenda: The Universal Periodic Review and new directions for US policy | Zendy

Kari Lerum | Zendy; Kiesha McCurtis | Zendy; Penelope Saunders | Zendy; Stéphanie Wahab | Zendy

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Using Human Rights to Hold the US Accountable for its Anti-Sex Trafficking Agenda: The Universal Periodic Review and new directions for US policy

Author(s) -

Kari Lerum,

Kiesha McCurtis,

Penelope Saunders,

Stéphanie Wahab

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

anti-trafficking review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2287-0113

pISSN - 2286-7511

DOI - 10.14197/atr.201215

Subject(s) - appeal , sex workers , sex work , political science , sex trafficking , politics , human rights , criminology , visibility , variety (cybernetics) , human trafficking , public administration , sociology , law , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , geography , population , demography , family medicine , artificial intelligence , meteorology , computer science , research methodology

Since the passing of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, anti-trafficking efforts have grown in funding, political strength, and popular-culture appeal in the United States and globally. Particularly influential in shaping anti-trafficking policy in the United States are anti-prostitution advocates who are primarily concerned with rehabilitating sex workers and eradicating sexual commerce. Simultaneous to the development of prohibitionist anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution efforts in the US, movements for sex worker rights have also grown in strength and visibility, influencing a variety of cultural, academic, and public health arenas. While sex worker activists have widened the dialogue around sex workers’ rights, their

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