Thanks.
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 12:09:02PM +1000, Tracy Quan wrote:
> Excerpts from an interesting new ILO report. See:
> http://www.ilo.org/public/english/235press/pr/1998/31.htm
> Status: RO
>
> 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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