1. Gender Violence - A Human Rights Violation
... of international law, this chapter discusses one of the most important new issues in the gender violence and human rights field, that of the trafficking of sex workers. In the early 1990s, a transnational movement coalesced around the idea that violence against women was a human rights violation. It built on the work of activists around the world who set up shelters, counseling centers, and batterer treatment programs, often borrowing from each ... see Schneider 2000; 2004; Bunch 1990; 1997). Like this book, the report grounds the problem in larger social structures of inequality rather t...
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