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WORK IS WORK - JUSTICE AND DIGNITY
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Abolitionists
of the world: same tactics, same shady dealings
Prostitution abolitionists, such as Donna Hughes in the United States,
Indrani Sinha in India, Micheline Carrier and Elaine Audet in Quebec,
along with groups from the conservative, religious right, all denounce
the funding of organizations working for the rights of sex workers.
This funding for the most part comes from budgets allocated to the fight
against HIV/AIDS. According to these abolitionists, sex workers’ organizations
promote prostitution and therefore they indignantly accuse the funding
agencies of themselves being complicit in promoting prostitution. Exactly
the same phenomenon took place in the 80s, only then it involved HIV/AIDS-associated
funding granted to groups supporting and defending the rights of homosexuals.
People then screaming from the rooftops that their governments were
promoting homosexuality. The methods of Hughes and Sinha and those of
their allies demonstrate a remarkable similarity to those of abolitionists
here and elsewhere. Here are a few
examples:.
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