Sex Worker Rights
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.
On-going cases:
Zimbabwe: Case challenging the refusal to allow sex workers to march.
Nigeria: Case challenging unlawful arrests of sex workers and police abuse.
Precedent 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.
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SALC at the International AIDS Conference 2018...
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