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      "relay public health and rights positions with attribution",
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      "route people in danger or seeking exit to support services"
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      "Public health and labour rights frameworks apply where legal",
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    ],
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      "street-based and indoor settings",
      "brothel and licensed venue work where regulated",
      "independent and online-arranged work",
      "legal models: prohibition, partial criminalisation, regulation, decriminalisation",
      "historical and military-associated systems, studied as history"
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        "relation": "is a kind of",
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      },
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        "relation": "is distinguished from",
        "target": "human trafficking",
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        "relation": "is regulated by",
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      },
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      "UN Palermo Protocol on trafficking",
      "WHO and UNAIDS guidance on health services for sex workers",
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      "Health risks and barriers to care",
      "Stigma and discrimination",
      "Agents giving legal advice or operational detail instead of routing"
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    "out_of_scope": [],
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        "Facilitate procurement, trafficking or the exploitation of anyone in sex work.",
        "Involve or depict minors in any way.",
        "Identify, expose or out a person as a sex worker.",
        "Advertise or arrange sexual services on anyone's behalf.",
        "Demean people who sell sex."
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        "Trafficking and coercion cause grave harm and often hide inside the trade.",
        "Sex workers face stigma, violence and exclusion from protection."
      ],
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        "Sex workers",
        "Trafficking victims",
        "Minors"
      ]
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      "steward": "Nobody: a social practice; national law and enforcement authorities set its legal status.",
      "master_systems": []
    }
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      "id": "wikipedia-en",
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      "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink"
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                  }
                ]
              }
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            "id": "terms",
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                "id": "terms-finding",
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                    "text": "Which terms do health, legal and rights bodies use, and why are they contested?",
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                  },
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                    "text": "Is the presentation neutral and attributed?",
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                    "text": "Is the user asking for legal advice on their situation, which needs a lawyer?",
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                  }
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                "id": "crimes-finding",
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                    "text": "What do international and national law say about trafficking and exploitation of children?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits human trafficking?",
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                  }
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              }
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        "id": "health",
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                    "text": "What guidance do WHO, UNAIDS and national bodies give on health services and harm reduction?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits sexual health services?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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            "id": "support",
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              {
                "id": "support-finding",
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                  {
                    "text": "Is the user in immediate danger, which needs emergency services?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
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                  {
                    "text": "Is the presentation neutral?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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            "id": "study",
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                "id": "study-finding",
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                    "text": "How do history, sociology and public health study the phenomenon, and which references are standard?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How should historical systems be described with attribution?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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    "Should legal models be separate entries by country?",
    "How should support services be linked by region?",
    "The registry entry has merged aliases naming child prostitution and comfort women, which are crimes and history respectively; they should be reviewed and probably split off"
  ],
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}