Vol 12, Issue 19

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Vol. 12 Issue 19

Indian Institute Of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore

February 08, 2013

Special Report

PROTECT US! Tragic story of a sex worker At the age of 23, Anitha (name changed), against her will, entered the darkness of prostitution. Poverty and the need to give her children a better future drove her into the flesh business. Anitha was asked to accompany her friend to a lodge where a client was to be met.To Anitha’s surprise, the client turned out to be her relative. She was forced to drink beer, in which cigarette ash was mixed. As soon as she started feeling dizzy, she was asked by her client to sleep with him...

Credits: Press Release

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Bangalore sex workers union protested against the newly proposed laws which they say will put rights of sex workers further into shadows. Several sex worker’s unions and NGOs staged protests in different cities in India. Bangalore city witnessed protests staged by hundreds of sex workers in co-operation with the National Sex Workers Union and other NGOs like Sangama, Karnataka Sex Workers Union, Uttar Karnataka Mahila Okkoota, in front of the town hall. But before issue could be raised, the ordinance was signed by President Pranab Mukherjee without having discussed it in parliament.

Sex worker’s union and NGOs suspect that if the ordinance is passed it may increase the atrocities against sex workers who have voluntarily entered the profession. The forwarded proposal is also being criticized for its non-compliance to the report submitted by Justice Verma Commission to the apex court. Justice Verma Commission was constituted in order to suggest amendments to the Criminal Law Bill 2012, so that trial process of Delhi rape case can be enhanced. The Commission was established on the pretext of Delhi gang rape case.

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Credits: Nikita Malusare

Protest held against the ordinance that the parliament has passed against the sex workers


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