Sex Worker Rights Defenders are a Vulnerable Group
International Report states that Sex Workers Rights Defenders are a Particularly Vulnerable Group of Human Rights Defenders
International Report states that Sex Workers Rights Defenders are a Particularly Vulnerable Group of Human Rights Defenders
Five reasons why “end demand” tactics are harmful to both consensual and trafficked persons in the sex trade.
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Linor Abergel for Ynet: “The fact that the transgender people went underground does not mean that it is over. I hear from my friends that the more normative clients no longer show up because they are afraid of the law, and that there is an increase in new cases of HIV because the remaining clients want to do it without contraception. This leads to an increase in drug use among sex workers and more cases of violence. Although street prostitution has almost disappeared, indoor prostitution has increased. Enforcement is ultimately only harming women.”
What’s the connection between Israeli punk rock and erotic dancing? And how did the Pussycat Strip club come back to life for one evening at the Tmuna Theater? One thing is for sure, you have never been to such a spectacle.
Director Isri Halperin in an interview with “Posta” about the film in which he exposed the battle to close the strip clubs in Tel Aviv from the point of view of the strippers, and documented the public struggle of sex workers from close up following the law criminalizing prostitution clients * Halperin: “The Women’s Lobby is a dangerous organization”* This is the movie that your TV channels refuse to show.
Gali Cohen for Haaretz on Isri Halpern’s film “The Last Lap Dance”: To this day, the discussion about strippers has been superficial and manipulative and has been conducted with zero listening to the women that are being talked about. “The Last Lap Dance” shows for the first time the complex side that has been silenced so far – the side of the strippers themselves. It’s time to stop discussing us and our future – without us.
The closure of the last three strip clubs in Tel Aviv by administrative orders has ignited anger among those involved in the profession: “This is a legal profession,” said one of them – and another added: “We have no other place, we just want to work. We are not criminals.” On Thursday, the strippers will hold a protest march in the city.
Sex Workers will protest tomorrow against the Law for Prohibition of the Consumption of Prostitution. These Sex Workers refuse to be looked down on, treated as victims of trauma or as a “moral stain” on society. Their struggle challenges all the stereotypes we know. They deserve an award.
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