South Africa on Friday said it would decriminalise sex work, hoping to tackle high levels of crime against women in a country with one of the world’s highest HIV caseloads.
“It would also mean better access to health care and … afford better protection for sex workers, better working conditions and less discrimination and stigma.” Police Minister Bheki Cele said there had been a double-digit increase in murders of women year-on-year between July and September with almost 1,000 women killed.“With sex workers no longer labelled as criminals, they can work much better with the police to tackle violence,” sex worker rights group SWEAT wrote on Facebook, welcoming the bill as “incredible news”.
South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution is among the most liberal in the world, allowing for progressive laws on abortion and same-sex marriage, but sex work has long remained a divisive issue.
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