The stereotype of trafficked Asian women exploited by sex tourists means that few people in the west expect Thai sex workers to be at the forefront of a radical push for sex workers' rights, but despite its slightly shabby, unassuming exterior, Can Do bar represents just that.
UNITE-HERE, largely representing textile and hospitality workers, has been at the forefront of debates on union revitalization in the US and Canada.
Yet I've been fortunate that my stories on HIV/AIDS, spanning five years, is now the subject of a feature-length documentary, bearing witness to the lives of AIDS patients, activists and workers who live at the forefront of the capital city's crisis.
Social workers have also been at the forefront of the development of personalisation, one of the most significant innovations so far this century.
Well-educated technology workers have long been at the forefront of American economic growth and innovation, used to working in a field where rapid change is the rule.
This, along with upgrading the professional capacity of teachers, health workers, police, justice workers and others who are at the forefront of activities targeting vulnerable children will help provide increasingly effective responses to child abuse, exploitation and violence.
There are a lot of negative aspects that we've seen in legalization, and it's not sex workers who are the ones at the forefront being part of the dialogue, being asked "what would be best for you?
These are the country's village health workers and community mobilizers, always at the forefront of raising awareness on the dangers of killer childhood diseases.
These approaches (commonly now referred to as PLA) use tools such as participatory mapping, community transect walks, seasonal calendars, daily time-use analysis, chapatti or Venn diagrams, scoring, ranking and matrices to facilitate dialogue among and between community members, local stakeholders and development workers and aim to put communities at the forefront of their own development [ 2- 5].
