Prostitutes and AIDS
How Brazil’s sex worker rights movement and its Ministry of Health partnered in creating one of the most well-structured and
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Soraya Simoes
Soraya Simões is a professor of anthropology at UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University; author of Vila Mimosa, an ethnography set in Vila Mimosa; and president of Davida, Rio de Janeiro’s non-profit advocating for sex worker rights and inclusion as full citizens of society.
Observatory of Prostitution report on World Cup sex tourism in Rio
I am honored to be working as a research collaboration with Rio’s Observatory of Prostitution, an extension project of the
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100 sex workers illegally arrested, robbed and raped near Rio
Niterói, May 23, 2014 Published in the Observatório da Prostituição (link) I am a research collaborator with the Observatório da Prostituição (Observatory
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Prostitutes protest in Rio’s sister city
In preparation for this summer’s World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Rio has been undergoing the biggest prostitution crackdown in
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Vila Mimosa: An Eviction Timeline
Rio has a history of warring with its prostitutes when tourists come to town that stretches back 100 years. When
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