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The Witness reports that local and foreign sex workers on Monday called on delegates at the 2016 International Aids Conference to support decriminalise of sex work.
A panel of delegates made up of Sex Workers Educational Advocacy Task Force (Sweat) director Sally Shackleton, SA National Aids Council director Dr Fareed Abdullah, Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery and others addressed a crowded hall of media, sex workers and activists on the issue of decriminalising sex work. Jeffery was booed by the crowd when he said there were some organisations and officials who thought sex work should not be decriminalised. He demanded that he be allowed to talk, to which a sex worker in the crowd replied: “If you are allowed to talk, we should be allowed to work”.
- Read this report by Chelsea Pieterse in full at The Witness
- See too, Sex workers heckle Jeffery at International Aids Conference, at The Citizen
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