Growing poverty due to COVID-19 is likely to compel more women to choose sex work and enforcement agencies must engage their collectives to “prevent, identify and redress” perpetrators of human trafficking who force children and women into flesh trade instead of criminalising adult consenting workers, says the National Network of Sex Workers on the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. …
In a first, the Maharashtra government has recognised sex work as work and ordered all Collectors in the State to ensure “free ration and essential services” to women engaged in it. “This is the first time under COVID-19 that there is an acceptance about the precarious situation sex workers find themselves in,” Meena Seshu, founder of NGO SANGRAM, told The …