Human Rights

Empowering Thai Sex Workers: The Positive Effects of Decriminalizing Prostitution

Socially, many societies are not ready to accept sex in exchange for payment. While proponents of criminal penalties to deter prostitution cite concerns with human trafficking and exploitation, decriminalization may offer better protections and working conditions for sex workers. Prostitution is one of the oldest, most controversial, and yet most long-lasting vocations in history. In […]

Three Takeaways from the Latest Request to the Global Fund’s Board for Aid to Venezuela

  Venezuela’s upper-middle-income country status has impeded its access to global health assistance even as its once world-renowned health system has fallen to pieces. In May 2018, however, the Global Fund, a multilateral donor focused on ending AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis as epidemics, introduced a new approach to non-high-income countries ineligible for aid but in […]