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Global Challenges and Social Justice

Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ)

Established in October 2021, the Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies at The Open University provides critical, interdisciplinary insight, and innovative, social justice driven solutions to challenges facing contemporary global societies. The Centre’s ambition is to understand the historical and structural underpinnings of contemporary societies; the systems of oppressions and inequalities they reproduce; and the resistances and struggles they generate.

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Please direct all enquiries to FASS-SSGS-Research-Centre@open.ac.uk.

Jan 16

Marginalised and stigmatised- Sex Work should not cost my life (GCSJ Seminar series)

Friday, January 16, 2026 - 12:00 to 13:00

Online, via Microsoft Teams

After researching sex workers in Cape Town and the UK there seems to be a desperate need for the safeguarding of sex worker.