![]() ![]() ![]() The 2014 report mentioned several police operations and public policies that resulted in arrests and human rights violations of sex workers in Rio. With the Olympic Games, the organization sought to analyze how policies related to the Olympics were changing the lives and professions of sex workers in Rio de Janeiro. Prostitution Policy Watch and several other advocacy groups were concerned with possibilities of human rights abuses similar to those during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. ![]() The organization is made up of professors, researchers and students from several major Rio de Janeiro universities and has been conducting research into prostitution in the city and attempting to “widen the public and political space for debates regarding sex work” to help the “recognition of prostitution as a form of legitimate labor.” Rio de Janeiro’s Prostitution Policy Watch has released their preliminary report looking at the Rio 2016 Olympics’ effect on the city’s sex industry. ![]()
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