Fleur van Leeuwen and Marjan Wijers

Dr. Fleur van Leeuwen is a human rights lecturer and researcher, specialising in gender & law. She is affiliated with Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History in Amsterdam; a national gender law expert at the European Equality Law Network; and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Gender Studies (Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies). Dr. Marjan Wijers was a pioneer in the field of human trafficking and is closely involved in the sex worker movement. Her PhD research explored the tensions in the use of human rights by both the sex worker rights and the anti-sex work movement. She is a board member of SekswerkExpertise, Dutch platform for the advancement of sex workers' rights, and a member of the UK Sex Work Research Hub.  

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When Ideology Trumps Rights: The ECtHR’s Rejection of Sex Workers’ Human Rights in M.A. and Others v. France

When Ideology Trumps Rights: The ECtHR’s Rejection of Sex Workers’ Human Rights in M.A. and Others v. France

In July, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in the case of M.A. and others v France. The case was initiated by 261 sex workers who argued that the 2016 French law that criminalised the purchase of sexual ...