Sex work can simply be understood as the exchange of sexual services for some form of monetary value. More officially, UNAIDS (2001) defines sex work as “any agreement between two or more persons in which the objective is exclusively limited to the sexual act and ends with that, and which involves preliminary negotiations for a price”. Under Act…
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Why migration patterns are so important to designing responses to HIV
Significant strides have been made in the global response to HIV. But there is an urgent need to rethink the ways that prevention and treatment programmes are developed and implemented. There is a body of knowledge that highlights the important role of migration and mobility in mediating the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite this, current responses fail to…
Mapping the law on sex work
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Intersectionality of sexuality, inequality and poverty
[First published on the Institute of Development Studies website on 17 August 2015.] I recently had the pleasure (and challenge) of being part of a team of Research Assistants working for the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). My two colleagues and I were tasked with coding, analysing and summarising eighteen IDS Sexuality, Poverty and Law programme…
Involving men and boys in action on sexual and gender-based violence… effectively
[First published on the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) Interactions Eldis website.] Ntokozo Yingwana explores lessons on the importance of a collective strategy for impact, inspired by a global learning workshop The debate has long since moved from whether women’s movements should be engaging men and boys in combating sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), to rather…
Sex Workers and Sex Work in South Africa A Guide for Journalists and Writers
Sonke Gender Justice (2014). Sex Workers and Sex Work in South Africa: A Guide for Journalists and Writers. Sonke Gender Justice, Sisonke Sex Workers Movement, Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce, and Women’s Legal Resource Centre: Cape Town, South Africa. [OPEN ACCESS] Abstract: The Guide has been compiled for journalists and writers involved in reporting…
So what is my understanding of gender?
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ (Simone de Beauvoir 1949). The sentiment encapsulated in this classic quote is that gender is socially constructed, and not predetermined by genitalia (being born with either a penis or a vagina). That our understanding of the gendered-self is informed by our social environments, and experienced through…
Nuances of Sex, Gender and Development 