SALC’s Sex Worker Rights programme has the following objectives:

• To assert accountability for police abuse of sex workers.
• To assert sex workers’ rights to form an association and to engage in protests.
• To challenge incorrect interpretations of offences, including the offence of living on the earnings of prostitution.
• To challenge offences used to arbitrarily target sex workers and other marginalised groups.

Current Cases:

Nigeria: Challenging unlawful arrests of sex workers and police abuse.
Nigeria: Challenging police arrest practices.

Completed Cases:

Malawi: Case challenging the use of the offence of living on the earnings of prostitution to arrest sex workers.
Malawi: Case challenging constitutionality of rogue and vagabond offence.
Malawi: Case challenging mandatory HIV testing of women.
Zimbabwe: Case challenging the refusal to allow sex workers to march.
Malawi: Case challenging arbitrary arrest of sex workers.