TY  - BOOK
ED  - Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the highest standard of physical and mental health 
ED  -  Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
ED  - UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls 
TI  - A guide on the human rights of sex workers
PY  - 2024///
PB  - United Nations, 
KW  - HUMAN RIGHTS
KW  - LAW REFORM
KW  - LGBTQIA+
KW  - MENTAL HEALTH
KW  - PROSTITUTION
KW  - REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
KW  - STIGMA
KW  - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
KW  - INTERNATIONAL
N2  -  Sex workers include people of all gender identities and sexual orientation over the age of 18 who receive money or
goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally.3 It is important to note that sex work is
consensual sex between adults, which takes many forms and varies between and within countries and communities, but
does not include nonconsensual acts.

Sex workers worldwide suffer widespread stigmatization, discrimination and violations of their human rights, including
arbitrary arrest and detention, violence by State agents and private actors, lack of access to health and social services,
impeded access to justice, interference with private and family life, and exclusion from civil, political, and cultural life.

In examining sex work from a human rights perspective, it is important to focus on the principles of equality and non-
discrimination, agency, bodily autonomy, privacy and free decision-making while stressing the need to ensure that sex
workers’ human rights, including the right to equality and to health and freedom from violence, are fully respected.  Sex
workers experience different human rights violations in their everyday lives. Nevertheless, these violations have largely
remained unaddressed in international human rights law. (From the document). Record #8675

UR  - https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/2024-march-sex-work-guide-un-report-short.pdf
ER  -