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ken
 Mar 3, 06 - 9:51 PM |
International Sex Worker Rights Day March 3rd
Here are some of the events... Friday is International Sex Worker Rights Day and sex worker groups across the world will be celebrating the lives of these workers as well as highlight their determination and strength. The Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) will celebrate the day with a group of sex workers and recommit themselves to taking the law reform process forward, according to legal advocacy and lobbying coordinator, Anna Weekes. "We will also be launching a campaign to stop arrests of sex workers under loitering by-laws." In 2001 over 25 000 sex workers gathered in India for a sex worker festival. Organisers wanted to celebrate the lives of sex workers and have subsequently celebrated March 3 as International Sex Workers' Rights Day. |
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ken
Mar 3rd, 2006 - 9:53 PM |
Re: International Sex Worker Rights Day March 3rd
The 3rd of March is International Sex Worker Rights Day. The day originated in 2001 when over 25 000 sex workers gathered in India for a sex worker festival. The organisers wanted to celebrate the lives of sex workers as well as highlight sex workers' determination and strength. Sex worker groups across the world have subsequently celebrated 3 March as International Sex Workers' Rights Day. The Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) will celebrate the day with a group of sex workers and recommit ourselves to taking the law reform process forward. We will also be launching a campaign to stop arrests of sex workers under loitering by-laws. In South Africa, street based sex workers are constantly harassed and arrested under local by-laws. The Sexual Offences Act is the piece of legislation that criminalises sex work, but it is local by-laws that are used to arrest sex workers. SWEAT recently conducted research with street based sex workers in Cape Town. Sex workers interviewed spoke of high levels of contact with the police and arrests as often as five times per month. One sex worker described the continuous threat of arrests as a major stressor for her and spoke of feeling "hunted" by the police. SWEAT believes that the police are abusing by-laws to indiscriminately target sex workers. Human rights infringements are taking place during these arrests. SWEAT's research showed that police are verbally and physically abusing sex workers, including police pepper spraying sex workers after arrest when they are already in the back of the police van. SWEAT has also received reports of incidents where police demand sexual services in lieu of not arresting sex workers or pick sex workers up and then drop them off in very remote areas. "Decriminalisation would go a long way towards stopping the indiscriminate abuse of by-laws to repress sex workers. SWEAT recognises that the police have every right to use by-laws to act in the interests of the public but they do not have the right to indiscriminately use by-laws merely to be seen to be cleaning sex workers off the streets. SWEAT and sex workers will work together to take a campaign to stop arrests forward," said Jayne Arnott, SWEAT Director. |
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madge
Mar 4th, 2006 - 9:51 PM |
India
Sex workers at a rally yesterday placed an 11-point demand to resolve their various problems. These include stopping forced eviction from brothels, arrangement of alternative income and ensuring healthcare facilities for sex workers. They also demanded proper education of their children to discourage them from joining the profession, raising the issue of trafficking at different forums and creating awareness about their human rights. Sex workers from Dhaka and Narayanganj organised the rally under the banner of Sex workers Network of Bangladesh at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city. " We want to live in the society as women and human being, not as sex workers because we were forced to join the profession under various circumstances," said Noori (not her real name). Betrayed by her husband, she engaged herself in sex trade to survive with a girl child who is still in dark about her mother's profession. While reading in class nine Noori left home with Mostafa, a garment worker, without the consent of her parents and later came to know that the man already had a wife living at his village home. "I could not help but divorce the man who married two more women after her marriage, and started to work as a floating sex worker to avoid death from starvation," said Noori. The case of Rani is, however, a little bit different as she came to Dhaka from Narsinghdi as a domestic help. She fell in love with a neighbour who was later found to be a broker of sex worker. He forced her to sell sex with others. Rani is now working in a project of Durjoy Nari Sangha named 'Empowerment of sex workers' and earning nearly Tk 3,500 leaving her past profession. " I will get a loan of Tk 2 lakh from the organisation soon and set up a boutique shop to be self-dependent," she said. Rani said different non- government organisations have stopped funding clinics to provide treatment to sex workers which has increased the possibility of spreading sexually transmitted diseases. The rally was also addressed by President of Durjoy Nari Sangha Shahnaz Begum, Organising Secretary of Sex Workers Network Kajol and President of Ulka Nari Sangha Parul. |
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Wendy
Mar 14th, 2006 - 9:54 PM |
Re: International Sex Worker Rights Day March 3rd
NEW DELHI: Protesting against criminalisation of their trade, around 6,000 sex workers from across India rallied on International Women's Day on Wednesday to demand equal rights for themselves and for their children. "We have gathered from different parts of the country to demand equal rights so that the government legitimises sex work in the country," said Bharti Dey of Kolkata-based NGO DURBAR. She said the government should include sex workers in AIDS/HIV awareness programmes and anti-trafficking efforts so that they could play a role in protecting young people being forced into the trade. "We have worked in the colonies where sex workers live and carry out their work therefore we can help the police in controlling trafficking," Dey explained. |
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