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A Coalition of lawyers, human rights, women’ rights, child rights and labour rights activists have been voicing their strong protest over the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care, and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021 slated to
be introduced in the upcoming session of the Parliament.
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It's International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers on 17th Dec! To commemorate this day, and in remembering the people we have lost to violence, we will be sharing information about violence against sex workers, focusing specifically on State violence this year.🧵
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Sex Worker Collectives across the world step out with pride on 3rd March-International Sex Workers’ Rights Day.
This year,we share this poster with our demands as workers at a time when workers’ rights are under attack.
#SexWorkIndia
#SexWorkSouthAsia
#NNSW
#ISWRD
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Happy Sex Workers' Rights Day from our team from VAMP, Gokul Nagar!🌹🌹🌹
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A victory for the sex workers rights movement: "Police Should Not Abuse Sex Workers, Media Should Not Publish Their Pictures During Raid & Rescue Operations : Supreme Court Issues Directions"
#SexWorkSouthAsia
#SexWorkIndia
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#SexWorkersadviseHarvardYale
@harvardmed
@Yale
Thread:
We
@NNSWIndia
, write regarding the recent study titled ‘Modelling the Effect of Continued Closure of Red-Light Areas on COVID-19 Transmission in India’ (2020)
Read
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Karnataka Sex Workers Union(KSWU)
@sexworkersunion
have joined the farmers rally in solidarity with the farmers in Bangalore.
#FarmersProtest
#RepublicDay2021
#supportfarmers
#republicday
#kisaanmajdoorektazindabad
#solidaritywithfarmers
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Happy Sex Workers' Day! We've started a new fundraiser on Milaap to support NNSW's 1.5 Lakh sex worker population during Covid and it's aftermath. All amounts big and small are welcome. DM us for poster/more information if needed.
#supportsexworkers
#COVID19
#sexworkersday2021
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Nearly 10,000 sex workers have written an open letter condemning an appeal from anti-human trafficking activist to
@India_NHRC
to withdraw its advisory to the Union government that sex workers be treated on par with informal workers.
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Sex workers from 07 states in India walked in Sangli today for May Day! NNSW stands for sex workers rights! Recognize sex work as WORK!
@meenaseshu
@AarthiPai
@sangramsanstha
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In Miraj, we went to watch a film together!
Happy Sex Workers' Rights Day! 🌶️
#SexWorkersRightsDay
#SexWorkerJoy
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We, sex workers of India plead to the
@india_NHRC
to save our hope to be recognized as workers. We are afraid that our happiness of being recognized as informal workers might disappear soon as there are many people of power against us
@ayeesha_rai
@nishagulur
@DeviNnsw
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Sex Workers have to be ensured
#AccessToJustice
Happy Sex Workers Day!
#InternationalSexWorkersDay
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Sex Workers' Pride in
#Nagpur
as
#GangaJamuna
remains sealed! Happy Sex Workers' Pride, remove the barricades!
#decriminalisedfutures
#sexworkiswork
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Sex work abolitionists only push us further into the margins.
They perpetuate the myth that sex work can never be consensual.
This allows us to be detained in “rehabilitation homes” against our will.
Sex work =/= sex trafficking!
#IConsent
#SexWorkersAgainstTraficking
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Sex workers across India speak in one unified voice. We demand recognition as unorganised workers. Let our voices be heard, loud and clear.
Sex workers from
@NNSWIndia
call for recognition as unorganised workers.
@India_NHRC
issues guidelines. 1 powerful woman calls for stopping this. Silencing voices of lakhs of sex workers. Is that fair?
#sexworkiswork
@SangamaIndia
@MuskanSanstha
@SIAAP_India
@VAMP03533593
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NNSW demands that this paper be retracted until it has been peer-reviewed and made publicly available to sex workers and researchers from India, for critique.
#SexWorkersadviseHarvardYale
@harvardmed
@Yale
Read
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#FightCOVID19
Sex workers who depend on sex work for their daily living have lost their source of livelihood with no clients, no income hence no food. We are preparing a food kit that shall last for a month for each sex worker. Your minimum contribution can feed someone.
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NNSW India welcomes the Bombay High Court Judgement that has recognized the rights of adult women to choose her vocation. Upholding the law that prostitution per se is not a crime in India.
@ayeesha_rai
@nishagulur
@meenaseshu
@AarthiPai
@Rajesh05793978
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Researchers and epidemiologists from India say that this study lacks rigorous methodology and transparency, misleading assumptions about sex work. WE say that the researchers have NO IDEA that sex work does not happen only in red light areas.
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We KNOW they are wrong!! The study was released in the Indian media in a sensational manner, leading to dozens of news reports with headlines such as this one, “Keep red light areas closed post- coronavirus lockdown: Yale School of Medicine.”
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Site visit!
The stiletto has become a symbol of SW advocacy in Thailand during COVID times, when activists lined the streets with stilettos to demand Government benefits for SWs. They also couriered the shoes to Government offices and hung them on the gates of official buildings.
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Firstly, what do we mean when we say violence?
#SexWorkersIndia
continue to lead a criminalised life, and this further pushes them underground and unable to access any benefits.
#SexWorkIsWork
#EndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers
#idtevasw
#idevasw
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Include sex workers as a special category in accessing social benefits as senior citizens and also benefits for dependents. Older sex workers must be included in worker pension and retirement benefit schemes
#Covid_19
#हमअगरउट्ठेनहींतो
#ifwedonotrise
#SexWorkisWork
@if_mah
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Implement the Supreme Court Recommendations, and "release all sex workers who have been placed in the Sudhar Gruh (rehabilitation home) against their consent".
#InternationalSexWorkersDay
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The coordinators of the network (active sex workers) are responding to these stories because they have the capacity to further stigmatise us, & worsen the situations sex worker collectives are in due to discrimination & societal violence. Read more:
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A
#MayDay
salute to each and every each crisis intervention group run on ground,district level groups,state level federations, collectives,NGOs, community-led CBOs,our regional networks & friends internationally advancing the fight for rights of workers.
Happy May Day from NNSW!
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Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, we extend our solidarity to our trans siblings -- both visible and invisible -- in our movements and communities.
Satrangi Salaam!
#TDOV
#TransDayofVisibility
#SatrangiSalaam
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#IfWeDoNotRise
#हमअगरउट्ठेनहींतो
Recognise sex workers as informal workers to access workers benefits. We demand that we are included as a specific vulnerable category in all communication material being developed by the government.
#sexwork
#SexWorkisWork
#DecriminaliseSexWork
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NNSW stands in solidarity with Transgender persons and is against the
#TransBill2019
! We have written to the President highlighting what the issues with the bill and urging him not to sign the same.
@meenaseshu
@AarthiPai
@ayeesha_rai
@Arti62539917
@nishagulur
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Some hard facts from the sex workers at NNSW. Pleas amplify, and dispel myths about work, livelihood and the stigma created by misinformation.
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Some of the signs read;
'Our children go to school too, we use healthcare services too, we are of different faiths too. Yet you want to remove us from public spaces, how is that justice?', 'Isn't removing us from our houses infringing on our rights as citizens of this country?'
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March 10th 2021: ‘We’re not criminals’: Bengaluru sex workers protest against police brutality.
#endpoliceviolence
#sexworkiswork
#decriminalisesexwork
Find the entire article here:
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We hope this thread has clarified and broadened the understanding we have of
#ViolenceAgainstSexWorkers
. We must address each aspect differently, keeping in mind different social locations workers come from across caste, class, migrant status, gender & sexuality.
#idtevasw
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This criminalised existence is furthered by forced 'rescue' operations of consenting adults, pushing sex workers into further precarity and insecurity with even basic needs, like having a place to live.
#RightsNotRescue
#PrecariousLabour
#EndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers
#idtevasw
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On
#InternationalDayToEndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers
a few of our members across the network share with us instances of violence, especially from state actors.
#ListenToSexWorkers
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
#IDEVASW
@apnsw
@GlobalSexWork
@SWASA55492619
@SexWorkHive
@SexWorkAllies
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Construction workers, models, painters, sportspersons – all earn from physical labour.
But only SWs are told we “sell” our bodies.
We don’t sell our bodies, we provide a service!
Give sex work the same recognition as other labour!
#IConsent
#SexWorkersAgainstTraficking
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Today, we launched Help Desk in 32 districts of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Maharashtra which will be run by sex workers for sex workers. SexWorkers will operating Help Desk at the District's level. 1/2
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@India_NHRC
recognises & includes the recommendations of sex workers in its Advisory on COVID19. In a very welcome classification, sex workers have been included under the category Women at Work!
@ayeesha_rai
@nishagulur
@meenaseshu
@AarthiPai
NHRC issues advisory in context of COVID-19 pandemic on “Human Rights Advisory on Rights of Women in the Context of COVID-19”. For details, please see link
@PTI_News
@ANI
@PIBHomeAffairs
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Join us as we speak about our livelihoods in lockdown with
@BahujanEcon
on 15th June 2021 at 6:30 PM IST
@KiranDe52569966
@sangramsanstha
@VAMP03533593
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Memories from our
#London
#fundraiser
w/
@SexWorkHive
!
To discuss concerns & mobilization efforts of Indian SWs, we screened:
📽️Save Us From Saviours,
📽️The Reason I Left School,
📽️Tales of the Night Fairies.
Gratitude to all who made this possible!
#sexworkiswork
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We made the recommendation to decriminalize sex work & to have special mention of sex workers across all indicators at the National Consultation on Gender and SDGs.
#IndiaVNR2020
#SustainableDevelopmentGoals
#LeaveNoOneBehind
@wadanatodo
@NITIAayog
@unwomenindia
@JagoriSafeDelhi
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Call to
#amplify
our fundraiser please! We're trying to reach ALL our members with some relief--
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(2/2)
Through the sale of tickets & raffle entries, we raised £3000 or ~₹2,96,000!
The funds will be used to help SWs access documentation, safety in the workplace, & social justice.
Gratitude to all who spent with us an evening of liberation, laughter, & love!
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NNSW is holding community consultations with our partner states over the next few days to discuss the draft trafficking bill 2021. All consultations will be in languages comfortable for our varied member groups.
#traffickingbill
#communityconsultations
#nothingaboutuswithoutus
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We believe
#sexwork
is dignified work
#SexWorkIndia
#sexworkiswork
Let no one take away our rights and dignity. We welcome the amended advisory
YES! NHRC recognises sex workers as workers. Thank you
@India_NHRC
for not listening to the abolitionists and denying the rights of sex workers to releif during COVID. Sex workers are migrant workers and informal workers and need to get all the benefits of the same.
@NNSWIndia
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#SexWorkersIndia
require workplace safety. Recent raids in
#Bhuj
#Nagpur
#Nasik
and larger research tells us that 'rescuing' consenting sex workers only further marginalises them, cuts their access to a livelihood.
#idtevasw
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The study recommends shutting down our Red- Light areas to reduce the number of new COVID-19 cases by 72% & deaths by 63%, & recommends keeping them closed indefinitely.
NNSW's full letter to the study researchers here.
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We hoped for our event with
@SexWorkHive
to both inform & entertain.
It took weeks of tireless prep, made easy by the shared enthusiasm of all on the organising team.
Especially overwhelmed by the support from all the creators who donated our amazing raffle prizes...
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Informal workers like street vendors, waste pickers, and
#SexWorkersIndia
regularly work in
public spaces, and have the right to work free from violence. Public spaces must be safe for
all.
#SexWorkersAgainstFemicide
@16DaysCampaign
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Not having a place to live leads to further insecurity-sex workers are at the receiving end of exploitative money lenders especially during times of stress and disaster (like
#Covid19
). Undocumented migrants are further marginalised.
#MigrantSexWork
#idtevasw
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We are not victims!
We are workers fighting for justice in a misinformed world.
Our community members in
#AndhraPradesh
for
@wadanatodo
#FlipTheScript
#PeoplesAssembly
#Act4SDGs
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#sexworkerrights
#sexworkersindia
#workersrights
#sexworkiswork
#policereform
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Sex workers have human rights too
#Sexwork
#SexworkIndia
@India_NHRC
@VAMP03533593
@MuskanSanstha
@GSanghatan
@sangramsanstha
@SangamaIndia
@SIAAP_India
@AdharSanstha
@SWASA55492619
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Swipe for stories of support from allies...
✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
#SexWorkIsWork
#EndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers
#SexWorkersAgainstTrafficking
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
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#SexWorkersAgainstTraffickers
#SexWorkersCombatTrafficking
#2020WorldDayAgainstTrafficking
‘Sex Workers are the First Responders Against Human Trafficking,’ NNSW
@sangramsanstha
@VAMP03533593
@MuskanSanstha
@SangamaIndia
@sexworkersunion
@SIAAP_India
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Refrain from using excessive force against informal workers in public spaces taking into account the definition of world of work in C190.
#NoMoreMissingRights
#RatifyILO190
@16DaysCampaign
#SexWorkIndia
#SexWorkSouthAsia
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The marriage of performance & sex-work has a long history in India.
15th C tawaifs performed 'mujraa' at celebrations, displaying an expertise of language, music, & dance.
Our 21st C mujraa…
Thank you
@KrishnaIstha
, Pat Elle, &
@BollyDitz
for a grand finish to the evening!
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Follow our friends across the globe to see how they are commemorating the day
@GlobalSexWork
@apnsw
@IWRAW_AP
@AfricaSexWork
@swopatx
@ukdecrimnow
@SexWorkHive
@SexWorkAllies
#idtewasw
#IDEVASW
#EndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers
#Retweet
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Argumentative Indians are a fraudulent group. Beware of them!
The National Network of Sex Workers was invited to a panel on the 21st of March 2021, by the Argumentative Indians who have treated us as Unimportant Indians.
(1)
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SWers from
@saheli_sangh
protest outside the collector's office, Pune. "For the first time, the government has given monetary support to women in sex work, but because of the fraud in Pune's red light districts, more than 400 sw did not receive support they're entitled to.
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authored by Dr. Sudhakar V. Nuti at Harvard Medical School, along with Jeffrey P. Townsend,Alison P. Galvani, Abhishek Pandey, Pratha Sah, and Chad Wells at the Yale School of Public Health.
NNSW's full letter to the study researchers here.
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This adivisory from NHRC is after many years of struggle in the sex workers movement in India.We want to see
@India_NHRC
standing with the sex workers of India
@meenaseshu
@AarthiPai
@chotsnataraj5
@chayanikashah
@jvenkatesh97
@AlphaToppo
@Rajesh05793978
@meerawins
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NNSW is saddened by the devastating news of the passing on of
@DrSmarajitJana
mentor, guide and philosopher of the Sex Workers Rights Movement in India and globally. Your teachings will always be a guiding force for us. Rest in Power Sirji.
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Informal women workers, including
#SexWorkersIndia
, have been denied legal and social protections and are disproportionately suffering the impact of
#COVID19
& the economic crisis.They must be included in relief and recovery efforts.
@16DaysCampaign
#SexWorkersAgainstFemicide
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#NoGoingBackNHRC
Recognise the rights of thousands of adult consenting voluntary sex workers in India who are fighting every day for the right to live and earn without stigma, discrimination and violence
@India_NHRC
#SexWorkIndia
#SexWork
@NNSWIndia
@AINSW_INDIA
@TaarasCoalition
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Sex Workers write to the Chief Justice of Patna High Court;
Voices Against arrest of a Rape Survivor and Two Activists supporting her in
#Araria
district, Bihar
#ArariaArrests
#SupportSurvivors
#Justicenotimprisonment
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We believe that
@India_NHRC
will stand for the Human rights of Sex workers. We have been discriminated & stigmatized; but we have fought & we will advocate for our rights
#SexWorkIndia
#sexwork
@VAMP03533593
@AdharSanstha
@MuskanSanstha
@JagrutiMahila
@SangamaIndia
@SIAAP_India
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The International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers is observed annually on the 17th of December by the sex worker movement and its allies across the world.
#IDEVASW2020
#SexWorkIndia
#SexWorkSouthAsia
#Violence
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Feminist Activists and NNSW Statement on Modifications to the
@India_NHRC
Advisory titled "Human Rights Advisory on Rights of Women in the Context of Covid 19"
#SexWorkIndia
@vadamalar_TN
@ayeesha_rai
@nishagulur
@chayanikashah
@meenaseshu
@AarthiPai
@RMeera102
@Rajesh05793978
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Happy Sex Workers' Pride to all our siblings across the world! May we continue to strengthen each other.
#sexworkerspride
#pride
#september14thg
#decrimfuture
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One of the themes of this year of Global 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Based Violence is
#LetsEndFemicide
- NNSW and all its partner organisations joins activists around the world to support and
#speakup
this
#16daysofactivism
.
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Here's the link to the fundraiser for easy access:
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Hear what Kiran Deshmukh has to say about being a sex worker and what pride means to her today, on
#SexWorkersPride
!
#sexworkerstrength
#sexworksolidarity
#sexworkiswork
#sexworkisdecentwork
#solidarity
#decrimfutures
#decriminalisesexwork
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Pan India
#SexWorkerIndia
survey finds 37% women had been physically abused by police.
51% women stated they had faced verbal abuse from law enforcement officers. 22% women
stated that they had been forced to pay bribes to the police.
@16DaysCampaign
#SexWorkersAgainstFemicide
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Our milestones in rights advocacy from the last year!
बीते हुए वर्ष में हमारे अधिकार वकालत की प्रगतियाँ!
#InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay
#InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay2023
#sexworkiswork
#sexworkisdecentwork
#sexworkadvocacy
#sexworkerrights
#sexworkersrights
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Join us at the Global 16 Days Campaign
@16DaysCampaign
#NoMoreMissingRights
#SexWork
#SexWorkIsWork
#SexWorkIndia
#DecriminalizeSexWork
#RatifyILO190
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All our INDIAN friends should use hashtags
#SexWorkIndia
and
#16DaysChat2020
for today. Happy tweeting, our body our right, showcase it today!
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Sisters from Veshya Anyay Mukti Nagpur celebrate
#globalweekofaction2022
hoping for a just world for sex workers.
Systemically silenced but every day we
#flipthescript
!
Facilitated by
@wadanatodo
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Did you know?The
#Covid19
pandemic has hit
#sexworkers
the hardest & many are struggling — without govt aid.If you could Ask a Sex Worker Anything, what would you ask? Do we sell bodies? Trade sex? Is sex work, work? How has COVID-19 affected our work?Drop your questions below👇🏼
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Kiran Deshmukh,President
@NNSWIndia
& member of
@VAMP03533593
spoke at
@ThinkCREA
Sexuality,Gender & Rights Institute. Sharing about the sex workers' movement in India she presented the journey of
@sangramsanstha
,
@NNSWIndia
& VAMP.
#CollectivisationfSexWorkers
#ReclaimingRights
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Immense gratitude to our outgoing Board members for their dedicated service 🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿
They set in motion many projects and processes for the benefit of the national community.
Their contributions systematised the collectivisation of SWs at the national level.
#sexworkiswork
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"Sex workers are treated as if they are a class whose rights are not recognised. The police and other law enforcement agencies should be sensitised to the rights of sex workers who also enjoy all basic human rights and other rights guaranteed in the Constitution to all citizens".
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Our clients come from the same society that doesn't recognise our work.
हमारे ग्राहक उसी समाज से आते हैं जो समाज इस काम को काम मानता नहीं।
#16DaysOfActivismAgainstGenderBasedViolence
#16DaysofActivism2022
#16DaysOfActivismAgainstGBV
#16DaysOfActivism
#sexworkiswork
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NNSW writes an open letter to
@OfficeofUT
on New Year in both distress, and hope.
#RightsNotRescue
#UrgentAction
#DecriminalisedFutures
#SexWorkersIndia
#MaharashtraRaid
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#हमअगरउट्ठेनहींतो
#IfWeDoNotRise
Sex workers often depend on daily earnings. We do not have access to loans or government approved financial institutions.
@AarthiPai
@meenaseshu
@chayanikashah
@ayeesha_rai
@nishagulur
@Rajesh05793978
@AlphaToppo
@Arti62539917
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#IfWeDoNotRise
#हमअगरउट्ठेनहींतो
Government needs to be held accountable for the lack of free education for the children of
#sexworkers
. Ensure our children donot drop out of school. Online schools are impossible for most
#childrenofsexworkers
, such policies deny education.
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Sex Worker Pride Day
Share your stories!
#StrongerTogether
सेक्स वरकर स्वाभिमान दिवस
अपनी कहानियां हमें सुनाइए!
#sexwork
#sexworkers
#sexworkerrights
#sexworkersindia
#sexworkindia
#stories
#successstory
#SuccessStories
#community
#workersrights
#PolicyReform
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Please read this statement from
@NNSWIndia
and
@SanghSaheli
on the corrupt practices that are occurring in the distribution of the funds meant for sex workers! We demand a probe into this! (1/2)
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Trans people exist, sex workers exist, and trans sex workers exist-across identities: as trans women, trans men, non-binary people and more. Our joy exists, and trauma exists. We exist across borders, professions, and social systems. None of us are free until all of us are free.
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