One meeting included members of the international sex workers’ rights movement. Sienna Baskin is with the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center in New York City.
SIENNA BASKIN: “In 2011, the U.N. Global Commission on HIV and the Law held regional dialogues around the world. Sex workers participated in every dialogue, sharing how laws affect their access to HIV prevention and treatment, testimony about human rights abuses and practical recommendations for change. We thought that the International AIDS Conference needed to hear these same messages.”
Kholi Buthelezi is South Africa’s coordinator for the African Sexworkers Alliance. She trains sex workers for better health, human rights and better working conditions. Mz. Buthelezi says making sex work a crime violates human rights. She says sex workers in South Africa have been raped, even by members of the police force. She says abuse takes many forms.
KHOLI BUTHELEZI: “One of the examples, in Mpumulanga, police go to sex workers where they stay because they know where they live. And then when they get there, they destroy condoms.”
FAITH LAPIDUS: Joining Buthelezi at the AIDS conference was Sian Maseko, director of Zimbabwe’s Sexual Rights Center. She says laws against sex work increase discrimination.
SIAN MASEKO: “Criminal laws are often used as a justification for stigma and discrimination against sex workers from various service providers, institutions and in general the wider community.
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