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KDU Law Journal Volume 04 Issue II
September, 2024
the ITPA between 2001 and 2005, and most of them were marched
in contradiction of separate sex workforces rather than brothel
landlords or guards.
The review indicated that seventy percent of the female sex workers
in thirteen regions of Tamil Nadu were subjected to severe physical
assault involving being beaten with a stick and wooden materials
and violently kicked by the police where many had their limbs
broken and sexually assaulted. Other social evils that hit the sex
workers included rape, harassment by not only the police but also
pimps, brothel owners, and thugs. Gender labourers are frequently
watched as “courses in the feast of AIDS virus” and then by way
of a “risk to public health” due to the feast of HIV/AIDS. As a
result, they are subjected to discrimination and exploitation in the
healthcare area. In the circumstances of gender labourers, who are
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frequently exposed to challenges deprived of their agreement, it
is evident that the National Aids Policy of 1997, which stipulates
that no separation must be involuntary towards feel compulsory
challenging, is unnoticed. It is also common for hospitals to deny
treatment and admission to sexual activity workforces because
they are AIDS haulers. Sex labourers additionally deal with the
issue of the general absence of admittance to medical care. 9
Experience demonstrates that the Government’s rehabilitation
initiatives have failed. “Subhuman circumstances with plain limitations
on their autonomy” and “similar criminals will the farthest option of
existence reformed” are the conditions subject to which the sex workers
in the homes established under ITPA undergoing rehabilitation.
However, apart from release and restoration through the State, there
is the intriguing lack of employ of sex labourers, but no effort is
made to provide for substitute income of service since there are no

8 Kotiswaran, P., “Preparing for Civil Disobedience: The Indian Sex Workers and the Law”,
<http://www.bc.edujbcorgjavpawjlwsch/journalsjbctwjj21_2/01_FMS.htm>,04 March 2023
9 Seshu, M., ‘Collectivization: Combating Violence against Women in Prostitution’, <http\\
www.vampnews.orgl vol 0Ino02/against.html> accessed on 04 March 2023
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