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From:	Adeyemo Gabriel [ profile ]
Subject:	South Africa: marching for sex worker rights
Sent:	Mar 13th, 2011 - 16:57:14

	Source:* allAfrica.com* AUTHOR: Ayanda Mkhwanazi http://allafrica.com/stories/201103071386.html Sex workers in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Musina, Limpopo, and other places in various countries marched in protest against abuse and the violation of their rights this week. How would you measure a woman's worth? Is it in the way that she dresses? Or perhaps in the work that she does? These do not ultimately decide a woman's value and every woman has rights and those rights have to be upheld no matter what type of work she does. This is the message that sex workers in South Africa and all over the world sought to deliver when they marched to voice their grievances on International Sex Worker Rights Day last week Wednesday. They want their profession to be decriminalised. They held posters with slogans such as 'sex workers have rights', 'we are not guilty of our work' and 'our votes also count'. Mapule who is a sex worker on the streets of Hillbrow, Johannesburg, says the police constantly abuse them. "My message is for the police. They must stop calling us names; they must not use the name 'magosha' to call us. I am not a 'magosha'. I am a sex worker because where I am working I'm making money for my kids", she says. Thandeka, who is also a se x worker, says although she has never experienced any form of abuse, the gruesome tales her colleagues tell send shivers down her spine. Please click on the above link to read full article. -- Many Thanks Yours' in Prevention Science Adeyemo Damilare Gabriel Regional Focal Point - West Africa Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AID (GYCA) +234-80-6798-7317 \| gabriel (at) gyca.org www.gyca.org \| www.tigweb.org GYCA is a youth-led global network of more than 4,500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.

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