Claiming Human Rights

Last updated on: 27 February 2024

This is the third year that the Hands Off programme presents data on human rights violations perpetrated against sex workers in the past twelve months. A total of 2466 human rights violations were captured in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe between December 2022 and November 2023.

People think that decriminalisation is about sex workers recruiting people… but let us be clear, the strive for decriminalisation is about human rights

– Kholi, South Africa

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