RIGHTS OF SEX WORKERS

Andra Pradesh DGP Guidelines on “The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956.”

Due to mass misuse of the “The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956” The Additional Director General Of Police has issued Circular memo to use the Act properly.

Tamil Nadu DGP Guidelines on “The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956.”

 

Karnataka DGP Cricular on “The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956.”

 

Immoral Trafficking- the Law & its Enforcement

Jacob Punnoose IPS, Addl DG of POlice, Kerala (Seminar on "Law morality and Human Rights" organised by the Department of Law, University of Kerala & FIRM at the Senate Chamber, University of Kerala on 15-06-2004

prevent trafficking of tsunami-hit women

"There cannot be a worst case where one is treated as a cattle or a commodity, and for this NGOs and civil society have a gigantic task at hand and a greater role to play, going by the menacing global proportions trafficking has taken."

Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried

 

Trafficking in Women versus Prostitution: A false distinction.

Trafficking in Women versus Prostitution: A false distinction. By Sheila Jeffreys Those who genuinely seek to end trafficking in women for prostitution need to work out how to decrease and eventually bring to an end men’s abuses of women in prostitution. Men’s prostitution abuse needs to be understood as a form of violence against women and penalized, as in now the case in Sweeden where the buying of sexual services is illegal. This means that men will have to give up their ‘rights’ to be sexually serviced by women who dissociate to survive. Societies will need to envision what life could be like for women and girls and how relations between man and women might be in a world beyond prostitution.

The 1999 Swedish Law on Prostitution

This law is a brilliant example of how a truly progressive society addresses prostitution: the law decriminalizes the prostitute but criminalizes customers, pimps, and traffickers. The Swedish government’s logic is articulated in this brief article.

Sweden: Prostitution and trafficking in women

Sweden: Prostitution and trafficking in women Publication date: 12 Oct 04 Author(s): Swedish Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communication In Sweden, prostitution is regarded as an aspect of male violence against women and children. It is officially acknowledged as a form of exploitation of women and children and constitutes a significant social problem, which is harmful not only to the individual prostituted woman or child, but also to society at large.

Legislation

Legislation - Around the World on issue of Trafficking

World Charter For Prostitutes' Rights

nternational Committee for Prostitutes' Rights (ICPR), Amsterdam 1985, Published in Pheterson, G (ed.), A Vindication of the Rights of Whores. Seattle: Seal Press, 1989. (p.40)

Why feminists should rethink on sex workers' rights

Why feminists should rethink on sex workers' rights Presentation by Hilary Kinnell, UK Network of Sex Work Projects at Beyond Contract Seminar Series, December 16, 2002.

Karnataka DG&IG New Circular on sex worker's issue

National Human Rigts Commision, National Commissions for Women, State Commission for Women and Various NGOs have repeatedly been pointing out that Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 is not being implemented in its true spirit by the Police Department- DG&IG Has issued new cricular on this issue

Preparing for Civil Disobedience: An Introduction

Prabha Kotiswaran:- Abstract: This article deals with the reform of prostitution laws in India. It begins with an outline of the current legislative framework available in this regard and then critically evaluates the various alternatives to the framework that have been proposed through the 1990s by the Indian government, universities and research institutions, the Indian women’s movement and sex-worker organizations. After undertaking an historical examination of prostitution laws in India from colonial times up to the present, the author recommends the decriminalization of prostitution with a strong emphasis on the protection of the civil rights of prostitute women as a matter of policy. More importantly, the author challenges the underlying assumptions of much Indian feminist theory and practice on the issue, critiques the politics of representation in the law reform process and seeks to highlight the agency of Indian prostitute women in the debate on prostitution laws.

PUCL Channapatna report

Channapatna police violence on sex-worker community