International Sex Workers Day 2023: Every year, June 2 is International Sex Workers Day. This day honors and recognizes the exploitative working conditions of sex workers. It aims to encourage people to respect individuals regardless of their profession.
According to the Global Network of Sex Projects (NSWP), the theme of International Sex Workers Day 2023 is the same as every year before, ‘Access to Justice’. In this way, the organization aims for collective efforts to ensure rights and justice for all sex workers.
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About 100 prostitutes on June 2, 1975 gathered at Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, France to express outrage at their exploitative and criminalized living conditions.
There they hung a banner from the Bell Tower that read ‘Our children don’t want their mothers to go to jail’, and also launched a media campaign to express their grievances worldwide.
Did you know that this action made national and international news headlines, sparked strikes across France by sex workers and created a legacy of organized activism? celebrated every year on International Sex Workers Day?
Occupied sex workers at Saint-Nizier Cathedral have demanded a number of things, including an end to police harassment, the reopening of the hotels where they work, and a proper investigation about a series of murders of prostitutes. Across the country, French prostitutes joined the action by participating in an eight-day strike.
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Despite the protests’ national impact, police refused to address protesters’ grievances and threatened increasingly harsh punishments. Finally, after eight days, the police dispersed the Church and the occupation and strike did not lead to any legal reform but sex workers saw it as a spark that ignited the rights movement their interests in Europe and the UK.
Therefore, on June 2 each year, NSWP focuses on the theme of Access to Justice as it celebrates International Sex Workers Day.
Let us tell you that International Sex Worker Rights Day is also celebrated on March 3 and the history begins in 2001. At that time, about 25,000 sex workers gathered in India. Degree to attend a festival despite efforts by prohibitionist groups to prevent it. by putting pressure on the government to revoke their license.
The Mahila Samanwaya Durbar Committee organized the event and is a Calcutta-based group with over 50,000 members of sex workers and members of their communities. As a result, sex worker groups across the globe celebrate March 3 each year as International Sex Worker Rights Day.
Source: nswp.org
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