{"id":35100,"date":"2021-08-12T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/12\/sex-workers-fighting-for-human-rights-among-worlds-most-at-risk-activists"},"modified":"2021-08-12T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:30:10","slug":"sex-workers-fighting-for-human-rights-among-worlds-most-at-risk-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35100","title":{"rendered":"Sex workers fighting for human rights among world\u2019s most \u2018at risk activists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Front Line Defenders report says rights defenders working in sex industry face \u2018targeted attacks\u2019 around the world<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/12\/im-scared-of-being-killed-sex-worker-activists-speak-out\">\u2018I\u2019m scared of being killed\u2019: sex worker activists speak out<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sex worker activists are among the most at risk defenders of human rights in the world, facing multiple threats and violent attacks, an extensive investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published today by human rights organisation Front Line Defenders, found that their visibility as sex workers who are advocates for their communities\u2019 rights makes them more vulnerable to the violations routinely suffered by sex workers. In addition, they face unique, targeted abuse for their human rights work.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/12\/sex-workers-fighting-for-human-rights-among-worlds-most-at-risk-activists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Front Line Defenders report says rights defenders working in sex industry face \u2018targeted attacks\u2019 around the world\u2018I\u2019m scared of being killed\u2019: sex worker activists speak outSex worker activists are among the most at risk defenders of human &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,246,934,496,59,346,53,1203,573,86,82,636,958,242,1332,440,552,79,61,1457,949,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-domestic-violence","category-el-salvador","category-global-development","category-health","category-human-rights","category-inequality","category-kyrgyzstan","category-law","category-myanmar","category-police","category-poverty","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sex-trade","category-sexual-violence","category-social-exclusion","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tanzania","category-torture","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35123,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100\/revisions\/35123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}