Melissa Ditmore

consultant on research and rights-based programming

I’m a freelance consultant specializing in issues of gender, development, health and human rights, particularly as they relate to marginalized populations such as sex workers, migrants and people who use drugs. My past and current clients include the Asia Development Bank, AIDS Fonds Netherlands, and the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center. I have extensive experience of working on projects both in the United States and in Asia and Africa.

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Books

Sex Work Matters
Zed Books
Prostitution and Sex Work
Greenwood Press
Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work
Greenwood Press

Recent Articles

Creating Accountability and Protecting Human Rights in Anti-Trafficking Efforts

The Trafficking Research Project

Trafficking in persons is a serious human rights violation that affects workers all over the world. But the responses to human trafficking also involve very important human rights issues, calling for a response to trafficking in persons that is rooted in human rights and respects the dignity and self-determination of the person who is thought to be a victim.

U.S. HIV-AIDS Policy Sidelines Sex Workers

WeNews

Widespread vagueness about the U.S. funding guidelines and an anti-prostitution pledge has hurt sex workers, the people who could most benefit from U.S. foreign aid and who are best placed to turn the tide of the epidemic.

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