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Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights
Includes bibliographical references.
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2015
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| author | Oppenheimer, Emily |
| author2 | Smythe, Dee |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12972 Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights Oppenheimer, Emily Smythe, Dee Social Justice Includes bibliographical references. This thesis draws attention to South Africa’s shift in perspective of prostitution as a criminal offense to a human rights concern. This thesis addresses the proposed adult prostitution legal reforms in South Africa. These models are analyzed and evaluated in order to discover which model best upholds international standards of human rights. International best practices and prostituion legislation in other parts of the world are used to depict current successes and failures. However, concern has been raised if certain legal reforms could succeed in a sociocultural context such as South Africa. This thesis seeks to investigate prostitution within the sociocultural context of male power and female oppression in South Africa. Prostitution is revealed as the exploitation of women and a violation of human rights. It is concluded that South Africa’s context of pervasive violence against women is not unique, but a reflection of a global view of women. The Nordic model is the human rights model that is recommended for South Africa. This model is not only able to improve the sociocultural status of women, but also penalize the demand for female sexual labor, which is considered the primary force behind the sex industry. 2015-05-28T07:01:26Z 2015-05-28T07:01:26Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12972 eng application/pdf Department of Public Law Faculty of Law University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Social Justice Oppenheimer, Emily Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights |
| title_full | Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights |
| title_fullStr | Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights |
| title_short | Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights |
| title_sort | prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women s human rights |
| topic | Social Justice |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12972 |
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