Sex workers plead for decriminalisation

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Sex workers plead for decriminalisation
 

– Reported, May 27, 2013

 

Sex workers in Cape Town say police are confiscating their condoms, and using them as evidence to arrest them. Today they told Parliament about the sexual health risks they face.

Advocacy group SWEAT recently did a national survey and found that 60% of sex workers are HIV positive, while more than half had recently experienced violence at the hands of police. Sex workers say they are taking regular HIV tests and 95% of them use condoms. They have pleaded with MPs to consider decriminalising the profession.

Sex worker, Duduzile Dlamini says, “When sex workers are in the road or at the brothels too, the police they confiscate condoms as evidence that you are sex worker.” “Like you yourself may carry condoms, it’s your safety, every woman and man have the right to carry condoms, that’s why the health department gives them for free, but the police, because of criminalization, they use them as evidence that you are a sex worker.”

 

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