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Sex Workers and Allies will be out and proud with SF Pride this year, come see all the great things we are doing:
The Prostitution law review committee of the Ministry of Justice in NZ has recently released their 5 year review of the decriminalization of prostitution (.PDF HERE). They have some interesting findings, after what is now 5 years of legal prostitutioni:
Some quotes from the Associate Justice Minister Lianne Dalziel:
“The report indicates that the numbers have remained more or less the same since the Act came into force and that most sex workers are better off under the PRA than they were previously, which was the intention of the Act.

The International Sex Worker Harm Reduction Caucus is a working group of sex workers and sex worker rights advocates who are committed to increasing the participation of sex workers and their organizations in discussions of harm reduction at the international level. To see our key messages about sex workers rights and harm reduction issues select on of the .PDF files below:
03-07-1
RESOLUTION 03-07-2007
DIGEST
Prostitution: Legalization
Deletes Penal Code sections 647(b), 647f, 315, 316, 266(h), 653.20, 653.22, 653.23, and 653.24,
amends Penal Code sections 647.1, 318, 266(i) and 11225, and adds Health and Safety Code
section 429.13, to decriminalize prostitutioni and foster safer sex practices.