Citing a recent Supreme Court judgment, which had held that whenever any brothel is raided, sex workers should not be arrested or penalised or harassed or victimised and it is only the running of the brothel, which is unlawful, Justice N Satish Kumar quashed an FIR registered against a customer of the brothel house.
A bench comprising justices L Nageswara Rao, BR Gavai and B V Nagarathna ruled that the directions of the apex court on providing ration cards to the sex workers were passed in 2011 but they are yet to be implemented.
The camp was organised on Friday as part of the civic body’s attempt to cover the neglected sections of the society under the vaccination programme, spokesperson of the NMMC, Mahendra Konde, said.
The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, in association with Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Monday organised a vaccination camp for empowering sex workers.
The Covid pandemic challenged people to meet their basic life needs. As the country went through another lockdown when it faced the deadly second wave, many were seen struggling for their livelihoods as rectrictions stalled income flow. One such community which faced the heat of the lockdown were sex workers at Delhi's GB road. When approached for help by social workers, NGOs, India TV came forward to help and distributed ration kits to these sex workers.
The sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi lack protested in support of their demand for voting rights, employment opportunities and the right to a dignified life.
Supreme Court on Wednesday directed all state governments to ensure dry ration for all sex workers identified by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) in adequate amount and uniformity, in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
A group of sex workers presented a cheque of Rs. 21,000 drawn in favour of the Prime Minister's Relief Fund for Kerala flood victims to resident deputy collector Prashant Patil in Ahmednagar on Monday, said a functionary of an NGO working for them.
A team comprising 16 promising children of sex workers is scheduled to fly to Denmark to take part in a football tournament.
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