From the SWANK and SWOP-NYC Listserv and from Melissa Hope Ditmore, Ph.D at Network for Sex Work Projects:
*** CALL TO ACTION *** ***** DISTRIBUTE WIDELY *****
PROTEST HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES OF SEX WORKERS IN CAMBODIA!
1:30 PM AT THE CAMBODIAN MISSION TO THE UN 327 E 50TH STREET NEAR SECOND AVENUE
HLM ATTENDEES LEAVE THE UN CAFÉ AT 1 PM
The Cambodian Government under the influence of the US has passed a law against sex work. Since March, sex workers have been rounded up in raids, arrested, detained, denied medical services, beaten and raped by police. At least three sex workers have died in police custody. Others are being denied life-saving medicines. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!