The Sex Workers Project. Becaue I do believe that sex workers rights are human rights. Our issues include criminalization of out communities, targeting of transgendered workers, migrants and sex workers of color, lack of police protection and recourse in cases of abuse, and targeting sex workers in lieu of addressing the real issues of trafficking. Formal recognition of their work would also grant them platforms to lodge complaints in cases of violence or any other kind of abuse. Organizations from a number of other places, such as Durban in South Africa, New York in the United States, and Darwin in Australia, also called for the decriminalization of sex work.
International Whores' Day
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June 2nd International Sex Workers Day | ICRH Global
This committee must be comprised of sex workers and other professionals like lawyers and supporters. Organisation spokesperson Sindi Mfeka says they want to be recognised like any other worker. Skip to main content. A movement for decriminalization must also be a fight for decarceration and challenging all systems and institutions that promote criminalization of those most vulnerable among us. Among the numerous hardships which effect our communities, it is surprising that our insistence on condoms for protection is actually used as evidence in prostitution cases by police and District Attorneys in this state. ICRH is also a co-investigator in the Boresha project, led by Columbia University, that investigates the feasibility of venue-based HIV prevention activities for female and male sex workers and their clients in Mombasa, Kenya. And sex workers, as those employed in one of the world's oldest professions, need to be able to comfortably protect themselves so that we may prevent further spread of an already rampant problem.
International Sex Worker Rights Day- March 3rd, 2018
In fact, two SWOP members are challenging cases which use this type of evidence. We know that no girl or woman becomes sex workers willingly; rather in most of the cases situation demands and especially for the cause of poverty, illiteracy, lack of awareness, betraying by the boy friends, lovers, husbands and relatives, trafficking and selling them in the brothel. Misinformation and use of stereotypes about sex workers used in the media damage the safety and their opportunities to access rights.
Eradicate laws that can be interpreted to deny freedom of association, or freedom to travel, Sex workers have rights to a private life. The organizers, Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a Calcutta based group whose membership consists of somewhere upwards of 50, sex workers and members of their communities. This causes severe hindrances for workers to access their rights, safety, and freedom from stigma.
