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Sex workers complain of police harassment and rape

12th November 2024 Mzi Velapi 0

The festive season is seen as boom time for sex work but also a period of heightened police brutality.

Sex workers call for decriminalisation bill to be signed into law

31st May 2024 Chris Gilili 0

“We’re tired of the talk, and want action and for sex workers to be taken as human beings”

Violated, abused and judged, report reveals cruel treatment of queer people in SA clinics

11th March 2024 Chris Gilili 0

An investigation by Ritshidze uncovers that unfriendly services are among a number of issues faced by LGBTQIA+ people at public health facilities.

Between high rates of HIV/AIDS and punitive new trafficking laws, India’s sex workers are struggling to assert their humanity

13th August 2019 Equal Times 0

Gauri Dobe vividly remembers the last day of her childhood. It was a summer afternoon, and she had just finished devouring some mangoes. As she […]

Sex worker by trade: how far do human rights go?

21st September 2017 Equal Times 0

“The domestic workers managed to do it.” This is the slogan behind the sex workers’ campaign for an International Labour Organization (ILO) resolution establishing the […]

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