Meeting on "Engaging with Sex Worker Rights" held

SANGRAM has conducted Hyderabad District Level Advocacy meeting on "Engaging with Sex Worker Rights" a sensitization meeting under the leadership of Hyderabad District Legal Service Authoriy Judge Dr Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy at Central Park on Yesterday.

The CBOs Darpan Foundation and Asthithwam who works for the men having sex with men sex workers and Transgender sex workers have facilitated this meeting. Judge Dr Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy explained about the importance of the judgement Buddhdev Karmaskar Vs State of West Bengal and the Supreme Court of India committee recommendations to the Government of India for the welfare and security of the persons in the sex work.

She explained that Sex workers are adult women, trans and men who provide sexual services for money or kind. However, their work continues to be stigmatized, conflated with trafficking and considered immoral. This stigma has led to the problematic conditions faced by sex workers including being arrested or forcible rescued and incarcerated in rescue homes, outcast by families, face violence by law enforcement agencies.