"We agree that no one should face violence or discrimination in access to public services based on..."

""We agree that no one should face violence or discrimination in access to public services based on sexual orientation or their status as a person in prostitution, as this recommendation suggests."

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/upr/157986.htm"

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State Department Takes Action


Last week, the U.S. accepted recommendation 86 from the Universal Periodic Review - a human rights review process at the United Nations.


It's not legally binding, but it is a useful bit of language for sex worker rights activists to use.



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Published on March 16, 2011 21:01
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