One of Asia’s largest red light districts, Sonagachi will next month roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers in what will be the first such initiative in .
Citing a recent Supreme Court judgment, which had held that whenever any brothel is raided, sex workers should not be arrested or penalised or harassed or victimised and it is only the running of the brothel, which is unlawful, Justice N Satish Kumar quashed an FIR registered against a customer of t
Sex workers should not be arrested or penalised whenever police raids a brothel house, the Madras High Court has ruled. The Madras High Court also cited a Supreme Court judgement which had held that sex workers should not be penalised in raids.
Number of girls /women in prostitution (State-Wise Report) Updated भारत में 28 लाख से ज्यादा लड़कियां वेश्यावृत्ति के पेशे में हैं, जानिए अलग-अलग राज्यों में कितनी सेक्स वर्कर?
Observing that human decency and dignity extend to sex workers and their children, the Supreme Court has directed police forces in all states and Union territories to treat sex workers with dignity and not to abuse them, verbally or physically.