Legalise prostitution to save SA sex workers' lives - Health24
More than 30 sex workers have been murdered – many of them brutally strangled and mutilated – throughout South Africa during the last year. On 26 August 2015 the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce ( SWEAT ) will be launching a new decriminalisation coalition called ' Asijiki '. It aims at undoing the some of the adverse effects criminalisation has had on sex workers and... Receiving money in exchange for sex is illegal under South African law, as is paying someone for sex. By criminalising their profession, whether it is freely chosen or foisted upon them by circumstance, sex workers are effectively turned into second-class citizens exposed to victimisation not only by their clients, but also, and perhaps more... “In 2014,” says Lesego Tlhwale, a spokesperson SWEAT, “there were 697 documented human rights violations, including 65 assaults by members of the SAPS, 5 incidents of theft by police and 329 incidents of harassment by the police”. Yet, insists the Women’s Legal Centre ( WLC ) in Cape Town, the well-being of sex workers ought to be protected by the provisions of the country’s constitution and laws like the Labour Relations Act, an assertion that. Source: www.health24.com
