Exploiting Indigenous Peoples: Prostitution, Poverty, Climate Change, and Human Rights

Exploiting Indigenous Peoples: Prostitution, Poverty, Climate Change, and Human Rights

Melissa Farley

Volume 21, Number 2 (2022) 21 (2): 104-115


Keywords resource extraction, prostitution, poverty, indigenous peoples, climate change, human rights, women’s rights, sexual exploitation

Abstract

This article describes connections between resource extraction, prostitution, poverty, and climate change. Although resource extraction and prostitution have been viewed as separate phenomena, this article suggests that they are related harms that result in multiple violations of indigenous peoples’ human rights.

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Melissa Farley

Published January 1, 2022

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Exploiting Indigenous Peoples: Prostitution, Poverty, Climate Change, and Human Rights. (2022). Fourth World Journal, 21(2), 104-115. https://doi.org/10.63428/bcnvgw35

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