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SEX WORK IN CHINA

2000-03-01

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

The following information is taken from the Research Report on Mainland Chinese Sex Workers - Hong Kong, Macau and Town B in the Pearl River Delta, available from Zi Teng or Asia Monitor Resource Center.

The sex trade is booming in China, having benefited from the country's effective embrace of capitalism.

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A SEX WORKER FROM CHINA IN MACAU

2000-03-01

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

My family name is Wang. I am from Changsha in Hunan. I will not tell you my age.

I have five brothers and sisters. I attended school from seven years old until I was 19. Then I wanted to go to university, but my family had no money so I couldn't go.

When I first left home to work, I went to Zhuhai [in China, near Macau], working in a garment factory.

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SEX WORK IN CAMBODIA

2000-03-01

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Sam Vuthy

Many women and children have been trafficked from rural areas in Cambodia and neighbouring countries to Cambodian cities, especially Phnom Penh, to be prostitutes.

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CAMBODIA: SEX WORKERS' EXPERIENCES

2000-03-01

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Phally

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WORKING CONDITIONS OF JAPANESE SEX WORKERS:CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS

2000-03-01

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Yukiko Kaname

The biggest challenge to the sex industry in Japan is that it is difficult to identify problems. Due to discriminatory attitudes of national legislation and society against sex work, sex workers cannot obtain information and do not have adequate systems for dealing with problems.

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World Trade Organisation

2000-01-08
Issue No : 32  September - November 1999
 
A Dictatorship of Secrecy and Double Standards
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WORLD THIEVES ORGANISATION

1999-12-01

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Ed Shepherd

WTO is an acronym that seems to be on everyone's lips, meaning World Trade Organisation. The Swiss headquarters has a permanent staff of over 500. Obviously such a large organisation has many facets. We will try to look at the most important aspects of the WTO to date, the effects it has on labour, and look at what it might like to achieve in the upcoming round of negotiations.

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MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT: The Effects on Fisheries in India

1999-12-01

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Helene Bours and Michael Earle

No Safe Passage

The proposal for a Multilateral Agreement on Investment spells danger for fisheries

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Effects of Liberalising Investments in India and Mexico on Labour Standards in the Automotive Industry

1999-12-01

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

IRENE

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INTERVIEW: WTO and China

1999-12-01

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Olivier Doriane

Informations Ouvrieres: On November 15, 1999, high-ranking U.S. and Chinese officials signed an agreement in Beijing that is meant to pave the way for China's entry into the World Trade Organization. What can you tell us about this agreement?

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The WTO, the World Food System and the Politics of Harmonised Destruction

1999-12-01

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Gerard Greenfield

Introduction

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THE TOBIN TAX

1999-12-01

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Peggy Lee

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A Dictatorship of Secrecy and Double Standards

1999-12-01

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Ed Shepherd

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Working for Life: Sourcebook on Occupational Health for Women

1999-01-01
 

For too long, the powers that be have gotten away with it.

Giant transnational corporations as well as medium-scale, locally owned enterprises have for too long neglected the issue of occupational safety on the ground that to invest in health and safety would be too heavy a financial burden.

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Health Hazards in Electronics - a Handbook

1985-01-01
 

This publication was produced by AMRC in 1985 and has been a valuable resource for those working on OSH and labour rights issues in the electronics industry for the past two decades.

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