ILO report on sex work

[Tracy Quan]

Excerpts from an interesting new ILO report. See:
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/235press/pr/1998/31.htm
for more info. 

					-TQ

GENEVA (ILO News) - Prostitution in Southeast Asia has grown so rapidly in
recent decades that the sex business has assumed the dimensions of a
commercial sector, one that contributes substantially to employment and
national income in the region, according to a new report * published by the
Geneva-based International Labour Office.
[....]
What is to be done?

The report says that "measures targeting the sex sector have to consider
moral, religious, health, human rights and criminal issues in addressing a
phenomenon that is mainly economic in nature." A major hurdle to the
formulation of effective policy and programme measures to deal with
prostitution has been "that policy makers have shied away from directly
dealing with prostitution as an economic sector."

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