Description
Sex workers worldwide suffer widespread discrimination and violations of their
human rights, including arbitrary arrest and detention, violence by State agents and private
actors, lack of access to health-care and social services, impeded access to justice,
interference with private and family life and exclusion from civil, political and cultural life.
The Working Group on discrimination against women and girls has prepared the present
document on eliminating discrimination against sex workers and securing their human rights
pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 15/23 and 50/18. With the present document,
the Working Group aims to raise the visibility of violations of the human rights of sex
workers under different policy regimes, to clarify and reaffirm international human rights
standards and to make recommendations for States and other stakeholders.
Source
https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/WG.11/39/1
Language
English
