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KDU Law Journal Volume 04 Issue II
September, 2024
(c) Solidarity and Collective Action: Encouraging sex workers
to demonstrate solidarity through mutual support, engage in
collective bargaining, and participate in coordinated actions.
These changes collectively form a comprehensive approach aimed at
empowering sex workers and fostering an environment that recognizes
and respects their rights within the larger societal framework.
DMSC and the Roots of a Revolution
An HIV/AIDS interference package was launched in Sonagachi, a sex
operative cross area in Kolkata trendy 1992 by the administration of
India together with All-India Organisation Sanitation and Community
Well-being in association with a few non-governmental organisations.
The database was grounded on the impression of peer education, in
which certain sex workers were recruited and involved in the scheme
to teach their aristocracies about HIV/AIDS.
The DMSC headquarters its efforts on 3 Principles:
(a) According to the DMSC, sex effort is a real work which can be
voluntarily undertaken by women as a way of earning an income.
Thus, as it spoke about the rights of sex labourers, it went ahead
to say that they should not be denied the same privileges what
other workers are getting.
(b) Specifically, the DMSC calls for the comprehensive acceptance
of sex work; It stresses that the ITPA be repealed because the
situation appreciates it as a tool of state exploitation and torture.
(c) According to DMSC, to significantly improve the existence of a
relegated group like sex workforces, the situation is essential to
test the leading beliefs that underpin the oppressive structures.
The DMSC has established several self-regulatory panels with
members from the National Human Right Commission, the National
Commission for women, and the Indian Bar Association to prevent
child prostitution and the forced entry of women into prostitution. The
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