International Sex Workers Rights Day is commemorated globally on March 3rd every year to recognise sex workers’ rights. This year, Sisonke National Sex Workers Movement of South Africa together with partners, The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), Asijiki Coalition and ally organisations will honour this day across all provinces through various activities with …
57 sex workers arrested this weekend This past weekend (4 and 6 December 2020) 57 sex workers were arrested around the country. None were officially charged with anything related to sex work, but 28 migrant sex workers have been charged under the Immigration Act and appeared in courts in Germiston, Polokwane, and Pretoria yesterday. In …
The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) joins Triangle Project, Gender DynamiX, Equal Education, the Khayelitsha Community Action Network and others in support of the #WeSeeYou movement, a collective of LGBTQI+ activists and artists who are occupying a Camps Bay mansion to raise awareness; and in solidarity with landless people, economic inequality worsened by …
The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) were shocked to view the above recording of Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka airing her opinions on Sex Work using language that is disempowering and offensive to Sex Workers. We stand in full solidarity with Sisonke, the national movement of sex workers in their opposition to these sentiments. Sex workers …
Utterances by United Nations Executive Director Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka that all women in the sex work industry are victims and the ones buying the services are perpetrators during a webinar on Monday 20 July 2020 undermines the work by Sisonke National Movement of Sex Workers and organisations such as SWEAT of more than 20 years’ …
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