Saturday, January 20, 2007

Protection of sex workers
BMJ 2007;334:52-53 (13 January)
http://digbig.com/4qtkn
Michael D E Goodyear and Linda Cusick
"Decriminalisation could restore public health priorities and human rights." [Sub required]

The UK Government must stop putting prostitutes at risk / DrPetra.co.uk, 12 January 2007
http://www.drpetra.co.uk/blog/?p=445
Dr Petra Boynton
"In an editorial in the BMJ, Professor Michael Goodyear and colleagues argue the UK Government’s current approach towards prostitution is putting sex workers at risk. The editorial comes after a bungled home office consultation on prostitution that didn’t represent the needs and opinions of sex workers, the overuse of anti social behaviour orders (ASBOs) that have forced prostitutes to work in increasingly isolated ways, and the tragic murders of five young women in Ipswich at the end of 2006."