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By AFP A German city that introduced a surcharge on street prostitutes via kerb-side meters said on Monday the programme had been a success and would continue. The Bonn government said a...
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By CTVNews.ca Staff Lawyers for the federal government and a group of Vancouver sex workers are in Canada's top court Thursday to argue the validity of an attempted constitutional challenge to...
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By Bridgette Bugalo, News Day Member of Parliament for Bulawayo East Thabitha Khumalo has stuck out in defence of sex work. She has been maligned by fellow legislators and politicians, but she...
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By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian A series of gang attacks on brothels in east London has triggered calls for changes to the prostitution laws after victims who reported knifepoint robberies said...
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By Chanda Katongo, Women's eNews correspondent These days, Comfort Mwansa, 26, has a full, busy life. While attending school, she also makes and sells doormats to meet expenses. She is looking forward...
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Outspoken blogger, feminist and activist Ye Haiyan (叶海燕), also known online as Liumang Yan (流氓燕 "Hooligan Sparrow"), is no stranger to controversy. Last year, she appeared nude along with three...
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By Kirsten West Savali, News One Barbara Terry (pictured), 52, is a mother of four children – two of which she has lovingly sent off to college, after raising them as...
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By Sheila Farmer This week charges of brothel-keeping against me were dropped. It's enough for two prostitutes to live or work together for us to be illegal. To be within the...
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While the ANC threw around a whole heap of cash for their 100th birthday celebrations in Bloemfontein over the weekend, a number of smart 'entrepreneurs' descended upon the city to...
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AN opposition Zimbabwean Member of Parliament has rounded more than 300 sex workers in Bulawayo to push forward legalization of prostitution in the country. Bulawayo East House of Assembly Member, Ms...
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To bring light to the physical and emotional violent impact of the criminalisation of the 250 000 plus sex workers in South Africa, SISONKE- the national sex workers’ movement- hosted...
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A Hillbrow transgender sex worker talks of family, poverty, religion and sex work. Watch the digital story below. [This is an Eyewitness News production: http://ewn.co.za/MultimediaVideo.aspx?filename=111214snowyewn]
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By Loyiso Sidimba (City Press) Do you wear miniskirts on street corners, lift, lower, “open” your clothes to expose your private parts or breasts and importune would-be clients? Then police have been...
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By Chi Mgbako (a clinical associate professor in the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School in New York City) My Fordham Law students and I recently...
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By Maria Stacey, SWEAT's Outreach and Development Programme Manager The national peer education training took place from 21-25 November at Oatlands Holiday Village, outside Simonstown. The training brought together peer educators...
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By SWEAT Director, Sally-Jean Shackleton This year has seen many changes for SWEAT. We moved into our new offices in February this year - and into a much larger space with our very...
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To highlight the physical and emotional violent impact of the criminalisation of the 250 000 plus sex workers in South Africa SISONKE- the national sex workers’ movement- will be hosting...
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An MDC-T legislator has vowed to continue pushing for the legalisation of prostitution and the inclusion of the "pleasure engineers'" rights in the country’s constitution. Thabitha Khumalo, the MDC-T Member of...
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SWEAT – the sex worker rights and health services organisation – have obtained a copy of wording of unpublicized guidelines provided to police by the National Prosecuting Authority, dating from...
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By Anso Thorn, Health-e News “I am a woman trapped in a man’s body. People ask me whether I am a woman and I answer, no. I have no feelings to...
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By Anso Thorn, Health-e News Moriscia Cloete (37) bucks the trend. Many sex workers share stories of broken, unhappy, abusive homes and childhoods, but the tall woman with the easy smile...
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An official of the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and AIDS (BONELA) has called on government to legalise prostitution and allow foreigners free access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) if it...
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By Agiza Hlongwane and Masood Boomgaard, IOL News Durban’s ladies of the night say they are fit and ready to “service” some of the 30 000 delegates converging on the city...
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By Wendy Lyon, Feminist Ire This is a cliché that anyone who advocates for sex workers’ rights will be familiar with. Faced with a sex worker who defies the abolitionist stereotype...
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By Anso Thorn, IOL News Decriminalising sex work would go a long way towards removing the hurdles sex workers face when trying to get health services, especially for HIV. Maria Stacey, national...
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The last-minute removal of all specific commitments on human rights from South Africa’s new National Strategic Plan on HIV, STI’s and TB, the Government has reversed our public health response...
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Read moreBy Refentse Moyo, The Swazi Observer For 15 years Thato Serite has made her living as a prostitute along Botswana’s busiest highway, hired by truckers plying the main route to South...
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By Oliver Roberts, TimesLive.co.za At what point does a woman decide to become a call-girl? Does she remember her first client? How many does she see in a day? And can...
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By Ester Lewis, IOL News Harassment by police and humiliation at clinics mean just 5 percent of sex workers are getting health care. This is according to research by the Sex...
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Sex workers in Rwanda say the criminalization of their activities, combined with their general isolation from society, means they are often excluded from HIV prevention, treatment and care opportunities. Article...
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By Kgomotso Matsunyane Now let me say upfront that I would be mortified if my nieces or nephews decided to pursue sex work as a profession. But if they did,...
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Written by Dikatso Selemogwe People with degrees cannot find work, what more of people like us? asked Sethunya “When I see my son staring at me with innocent eyes pleading for...
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Written by Khadija Sharife of The Africa Report With shore leave dwindling to only a few days, Durban’s last remaining sailors’ sex club is struggling for business, but for the women...
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Speaking at the third and last meeting of the National Aids Council (NAC) for this year in Gaborone yesterday, Mogae, who is the head of the Aids organisation, said even...
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Magosha, Nongogo, Jentu, Prossie, Whore- sex workers are often referred to in these derogatory terms. But who/what exactly is a sex worker? Join us for an interactive discussion with a...
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Sex work is a crime in South Africa, as is brothel keeping, living off the earnings, as well as many other activities of the sex work industry. The arguments to keep...
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By Karen Kotze (Southern Suburb Tatler) The call to decriminalise sex work has been stepped up a notch by sex work activist Mickey Meji. Ms Meji has just returned from a...
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In the form of a digital-story, a KwaZulu-Natal based sex worker discusses the difficulties of finding true love in the sex industry. She and her partner are currently pregnant...
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Read moreThe City of Cape Town’s Vice Squad arrested three suspects on charges of operating a brothel, during a covert operation on Tuesday evening, 27 September 2011. The Vice Squad...
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Sex Workers’ Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and the Women’s Legal Center (WLC) have been working together since 2010 fighting for sex-workers’ human rights. Close to the end of last...
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Leading South African sex work activist Mickey Meji has just returned home after a hectic fact-finding visit to New Zealand, the first country in the world to decriminalise sex work. ...
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Are you a sex worker, and have professional, health and legal questions? Let SWEAT's panel of experts give you sound advice. Just leave your question below as a comment.Here are...
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Male Sex Workers Talk Business by SWEAT Voices By Dr Gordon Isaacs, SWEAT Psycho-Social Co-ordinatorOn reflecting on one of my groups, I was engulfed by many shadows. A shadow of...
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Q: Why do you seek the services of sex workers?A: I seek their advice because they are always there and ready for service.Q: Do you only just go to them...
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Mickey Meji, a South African sex worker and campaigner for sex work decriminalisation, is in New Zealand until September 19th to examine what decriminalisation looks like on the ground. In...
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The Sex Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) is seeking a vibrant and motivated individual to lead its Advocacy Team. The Advocacy Manager will have a unique opportunity to make...
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By Ziyad Choonara What we have found in Germiston is that police consistently victimize certain sex workers, especially those who stand up for their rights and refuse to pay bribes. Basically...
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"It's going to be very busy - tens of thousands of visitors, predominantly men, and many of them looking for some type of sexual activity whilst they are ...
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By Lynnette Johns Sex workers say they continue to be harassed by police, and this action by authorities account for up to 50 percent of reported cases of human rights abuse....
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Read moreBy Marlise Richter (of the University of the Witwatersrand)Your profile of Nozizwe Madlala- Routledge (It’s the oldest form of oppression, August 22) is timely, but sadly misinformed in presenting her...
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Read moreBy Natalia Drozdiak, and by Paul Casciato Prostitutes in the German city of Bonn must carry a ticket purchased from a new parking metre-like machine while working the streets...
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Cape Town held its first Slut Walk on the 20th of August 2011. This international campaign is a response to a remark made by a representative of the Toronto Police...
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Dr. Marlene Wasserman (better known as Dr Eve) is an a internationally accredited Couple and Sex Therapist with a private practice in Cape Town. She is also writer of columns...
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Read moreThe 13th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration was hosted by the Refugee Law Project in Kampala (Uganda) this past July.The theme of the conference...
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A 13-YEAR-OLD girl has been rescued from a house in Vanderbijlpark, Vaal, where she was held captive for months and sold to men for sex in return for drugs and...
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Her wide brown eyes are a wall, hiding her emotions. Valisher (not her real name) gets hassled when she goes to the shops and is blamed for the spread of...
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Read moreA popular DJ and TV presenter has been branded a crook and a rude man for allegedly not paying a lady of the night for her services. This came to...
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Read moreSituated in central Johannesburg is a hotel (name provided) which is a hive of activity, fully packed with mostly Zimbabwean commercial sex workers.As soon as one enters the hotel, discordant...
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SWEAT has made it into The Loerie Awards, South Africa's most recognised and prestigious advertising awards. Since when have we branched into advertising, you ask. Well, it's not us who...
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By Bridgette Bugalo Sex workers in Zimbabwe’s second largest city have challenged the government to decriminalise sex work saying it is their livelihood. This came up at a workshop organised by...
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Read moreZimbabwe is a multi- cultural country that believes in traditional, cultural norms and Christian values. The issue of sex work is considered dirty and leads to sex workers being outcasts…
A Zambian TV channel has launched a reality show to help former prostitutes find husbands.The 18 sex workers stand to win a cash prize of about $9,000 (£5,500) and have…
BackgroundInternational sporting events are increasing in frequency and magnitude. It is estimated that the FIFA World Cup brought close to 400 000 visitors to South Africa in 2010. Little research…
Yesterday afternoon, the Vice Squad conducted an integrated operation with the SAPS Human Trafficking Task Team on a residence in Marais Street, Goodwood. The house was being used as a…
A Halifax-based sex work advocacy group, Stepping Stone, is trying to remind people that prostitutes are people too with a new campaign featuring images such as a grandmother with the…
By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, July 6, 1:33 PMNEW YORK — A federal appeals court has ruled that the United States cannot force partners in its international fight against AIDS…
SWEAT in collaboration with other local NPOs recently staged a flash mob against violence at the Cape Town Metrorail train station. Violence was dragged out from behind closed doors, and…
Kgomotso Matsunyane is the co-founder of T.O.M. Pictures. She is the former editor of The Oprah Magazine and a former SABC 1 commissioning editor for local drama series such as…
By Farrel Brest Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in working with clients with disability. The latest documentary from award-winning director Catherine Scott and producer…
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