The National Network of Sex Workers (NNSW) is a pan-India network of over 1.5 lakh female, trans and male sex workers. NNSW calls on Smt. Smriti Irani, Minister, Department of Women and Child,
Government of India to withdraw harmful provisions of “The Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2021.
We provide detailed reasons below on how provisions of the proposed Bill are over broad, with no
relation to the stated objective of preventing trafficking and have tremendous scope for misuse against
sex workers, their clients and third parties assisting them.
National Human Rights Commission recognises & includes the recommendations of sex workers in its Advisory on COVID19. In a very welcome classification, sex workers have been included under the category Women at Work! The most critical victory for sex workers is the recognition as informal workers and their registration - "Sex workers may be recognised as informal workers and be registered so that they are able to get worker benefits"
The submission was made by Nnsw India to a committee assessing the impact of the Covid-19 on the people's human rights in August 2020. Thanks to all members who made this possible with your submissions and support. Click on the link to read the Advisory on Rights of Women.
Read More NHRCAdvisory on Rights of Women_(Sex Workers Included)Sex Workers from the National Network of Sex Workers have released a statement.
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BENGALURU: With lockdown restrictions in place and social distancing a must, members of the transgender community are finding their source livelihood severly hit.
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Election Of national Network Of Sex Workers (NNSW)
Annual General Body Meeting and National Conference 2019
Members of the National Network of Sex Workers undertook a 4 month long advocacy process to draw attention to the concerns of sex workers and other stakeholders on the Trafficking Bill 2018. Seven Consultations were held with over 200 stakeholders in Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Ranchi and Lucknow.
Over 4000 sex workers from seven states and 32 districts have submitted their signatures to call on the WCD Minister to explicitly exclude sex workers working of their own volition; from the ambit of the Trafficking Bill. In addition, 200 people have endorsed the collated critique. The Collated Critique has emerged from the responses and inputs from a group of activists, lawyers. The critique has been submitted to the Women and Child Minister.
Collated Comment FINAL Endorsements Suggested Amendments Endorsements from over 4000 sex workers Scanned Signatures Read More
The National Network of Sex Workers, India, strongly condemns the killing of journalist and editor Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on September 5, 2017.
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The Steering Committee: From Left (Eshwar, Nisha, Muktha and Rajesh)
Secretariat; KSWU, UKMO (Supported by Sangama)
How Anti-trafficking Strategies Increase Sex Workers’ Vulnerability to Exploitative Practices
Research Authors Aarthi Pai Laxmi Murthy Meena Saraswathi Seshu Rakesh Shukla Download E-Book Download E-Book (Marathi Version) Download E-Book (Hindi Version) Download E-Book (Kannada Version) Download E-Book (Malayalam Version) Download E-Book (Tamil Version) Download E-Book (Telugu Version)
The National Network of Sex Workers (NNSW) is a national network of sex worker-led organisations and allies committed to promoting the Rights of Sex Workers in India.NNSW consists of 12 CBOs/ State Networks/ State Federations/ Collectives and 8 NGOs across seven state.With a strength 50,000 members, it is the only national network that brings together female, transgender and male sex workers with NGOs and sex work(er) rights activists.
Read MoreAyesha Rai, VAMP member and National Coordinator of the National Network of Sex Workers speaks about her experiences of being in sex work and why she considers it work, September 2019
View MoreThe International Labour Organisation (ILO) is seeking to develop an international instrument on violence and harassment in the world of work...
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"Rubaru" Jan andolan aur NNSW, 9-11 October 2017, Vishwa Yuva Kendra Delhi
Read MoreIn January 2017, Sex workers from NNSW and women’s rights activists oppose the conference, “Last Girl’s First” organised by Coalition Against Prostitution and Apne Aap International in Delhi. Over 2000 sex workers signed onto a statement opposing the continued conflation of trafficking and sex work and the complete absence of sex consenting workers from such conference spaces. Women’s groups across the country also developed an independent statement that was submitted to the conference participants.
In her recent piece, Sex work or slavery?: Why human rights discourse is no longer a tool for liberation, Nandita Haksar bases her entire argument on the faulty premise that “almost all women who have been in prostitution call it slavery”.
courtesy Scroll.inWomen’s rights and human rights activists expressed solidarity with sex work networks in their call to stop all criminalisation of consensual sex work. Proposed amendments to the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (ITPA) seek to criminalize clients and customers, rehabilitate ‘prostitutes’ engaged in sex work by sending them to protective and rehabilitation homes.
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