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It is estimated that in Europe alone there will soon be 18,900 call centres, up from the current 9,700, with 1.3% of the working population employed as call centre agents. World wide it is estimated that by the year 2002 there will be 8.9 million seats in call centres around the world where the workers are using a mixture of telephone and computer communications generating $7 billion in revenue. The UK has about 3,650 call centres employing 390,000 people. Staff are mainly women aged 20-30.

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Yu, Tae Hee

General Situation

Prostitute Women and Client Statistic

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Ana Enriquez

Latin American sex workers' organising attempts go back to 1982 when the Ecuadorian sex workers formed an organisation. Six years later they went on strike to resist police malpractice and exploitation within the brothels, and to gain attention for their demands for decent working conditions.

In the late eighties, Mexican, Brazilian and Uruguayan prostitutes created their own organisations.