Workshop on Sex Workers Rights

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

In the short period that Indian sex workers have mobilized to form their own

movement, they have achieved considerable success in not only, highlighting the

excesses of state violence and societal discrimination against sex workers, but

also, in emerging as a powerful voice in the policy debates surrounding the

regulation of sex work. Nevertheless, the main demands of the movement,

articulated ever since the first national sex workers’ conference in 1997 in

Kolkata,West Bengal, India, that sex work be recognized as a form of labor has

not found expression in a concrete proposal for policy or law reform.

Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a forum a 60,000 sex workers in West Bengal

is organizing a workshop on sex workers’ rights titled “Policy and Law Reform

relating to Sex Work” at KGMOA Hall,General Hospital Junction,Trivandrum on 4th

March’2003 from 10 am – 5pm.The main objectives of the workshop are :

1. To examine thoroughly sex workers’ demands that sex work be considered to be

a form of labor

2. To evaluate the advantages of treating sex work as a form of labor;

We are cordially inviting you to be an active participant to the workshop.

With lot of expectations and thanks in advance,

With regards,

Angura Begum

(Secretary)

Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee

E-mail: <sonagachi@...>