While being supported by many sex industry groups, feminists have labelled Amnesty International’s decriminalisation of prostitution a betrayal of women’s rights.
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Both sides of the debate claim to have the evidence, but only one is right.
There is a wider social, economic and cultural context in which sex work occurs. The criminalisation of consensual adult sex work does not prevent violence – it exacerbates it.
Capital punishment is unfairly imposed, innocent people are regularly condemned and it is patently ineffective in deterring crime. So why to states retain the death penalty?
International reporting of the Caribbean country’s migrant crisis is in danger of missing the point of what the authorities have actually done.
Reports of Hamas’s human rights abuses against Palestinians are mounting, and popular support falling – but the movement is going nowhere.
This year has been anything but tranquil in the paradise nation of the Maldives – is it time to boycott?
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