Activist sex workers in Kyrgyzstan face targeted persecution.
Activist sex workers face targeted persecution from police and wider society, a report has found.
Front Line Defenders spent four years speaking to over 300 sex workers and sex worker rights defenders in Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar and El Salvador. They published their findings in August.
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