ILO report on sex work

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Fri Oct 4 18:34:34 PDT 2002


Do you have some information about how this can be obtained? It does not seem to be on the web site.

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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>
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