sex worker's rights

Our staunch moral judgment of individuals who by choice or circumstance participate in the sex industry results in the shattering silence around incidents of rapes, assaults, and murders of sex workers.

Aboriginal sex workers are subject to dual discrimination, experience high rates of violence, including murder, and high rates of HIV among other outcomes associated with violations of their human rights.

Little attention is given to violence experienced by sex workers from those closest to them: their husbands, boyfriends and partners.

Doubly stigmatised, transgender sex workers experience violence from the public, customers, their ‘sisters,’ and the police.

A recent report on the sex trade illustrates how stigmatization and criminalization of sex workers in the United States result in widespread abuses of civil and human rights.