At its decision-making forum in Dublin, the human rights group approved the resolution to recommend "full decriminalisation of all aspects of consensual sex work".
"They found that even though they rule with an iron hand, the people still believe in another," said Sunai Phasuk, a Thai member of the human rights group Forum Asia who is an expert on Myanmar.
The forum was co-sponsored by Walmart, the human resource firm Manpower Group and the anti-human-trafficking Katie Ford Foundation.
Furthermore, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Caribbean Forum, PetroCaribe, numerous human rights organizations, over 20 U.S.-based national Latino organizations, the U.S. National Bar Association, and prominent writers, activists and academics have spoken out against this discrimination and the troubling precedent that it sets.
Meanwhile, Selina, speaking at a forum for human rights in the Middle East, proclaimed, in one of the best lines yet in the series, "Human rights are part of a diverse pageant of different priorities".
One refugee advocate told Radio New Zealand the forum was masking human rights abuses, and urged journalists to look at the bigger picture.
"We should be very definite in saying that selling flesh is a crime," Rumen Petkov, the interior minister, said at a forum on human trafficking on Friday, also attended by the president, the minister of justice and the United States ambassador to Bulgaria.
If such change does not occur, that body, which advertises itself as the central world forum on human rights, will pass from a state of confusion to one of utter irrelevance.
"We have to let the world know about the atrocities in North Korea and help our brothers and sisters there," he told the Oslo Freedom Forum on human rights in 2009.
This summer in Berlin, the fifth Russell Tribunal provided a forum, addressing human rights in psychiatry.
