Länderberichte INDIEN:

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Forts.


The first pan-India survey of female sex workers


It was done under the aegis of Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalization, Sangli, was conducted by Rohini Sahni and V Kalyan Shakar of the Department of Economics, University of Pune.

This unique survey documents the lived realities of sex workers; delves into the complex details of their day-to-day interactions; the stigma and marginalization they experience and attempts to understand the challenges they face as well as their complex responses.

The survey pools together a large national level sample of 3.000 unorganized sex workers from 14 states.

The women who participated in the survey are from various geographies, ages, family backgrounds, languages, sites of operation, migratory patterns, incomes and cultures.


Vortrag Hindi - Bildprojektion English:
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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Bombay Bar Girls

Buch:
"Beautiful Thing: Portrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer"
von Sonia Faleria


... the government within two or three months of making the accusation, that dance bars encouraged immorality among the youth and they were profoundly connected with the underworld, shut down the dance bars and so Leela and about 75,000 girls like her were literally thrown out into the street, because these are girls without education, without skills.

They don't even know how to save money, so somebody who might have earned $100 a night had no money when the bars shut down, because she hadn't managed to save any, either because she spent it on herself or generally because she'd sent all the money home.

But in a situation like this, once the girls stops earning money, she's no longer welcome at home. So there was no place of work and she had no family to turn to and so a lot of these girls did end up in the sex industry.

It's amazing that the families benefited for so long from the work and the finance that the girls brought in and then as soon as that tap was turned off, that's a force stopped as well.

The family funnelled these girls into this business and at the same time, once the girls were no longer able to earn money, they said well, I'm sorry but we can't be associated with you and the disgusting business that you've been working in so please don't come back to the village.

Incredibly hypocritical.

But you know there's always another girl in the family to benefit from, that sort of how that some castes and perhaps even society as a whole is structured of taking advantage of our weakest in a way. ...

Quelle mit Audio-Interview:
www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/s ... 226590.htm

Buchshop:
www.abbeys.com.au/book/beautiful-thing- ... -dancer.do

[Marc of Frankfurt]

'Raiding a Brothel in India' glosses over Kolkata and its people

This open letter is in reaction to Nicholas D Kristof's article 'Raiding a Brothel in India' which appeared in the 'New York Times' on May 25, 2011.


Guest column by Partha Banerjee
Partha Banerjee is a New York-based writer, media observer and human rights activist. He focuses on labour and immigrants.
www.write2kill.in/partha-banerjee/raidi ... eople.html


Mr Kristof, You've taken on an important subject, and these poor girls need help. But honestly, there are some serious problems with your article and investigation that one must mention. Here they are, for whatever their worth.

Kolkata brothels, in spite of the many problems, are actually much better than say, Mumbai or Dhaka because the sex workers are organized. They have fought for many years against the police, pimps, politicians, people and other anti-sex worker agents. Sonagachhi's HIV rate is approximately 5% compared to Mumbai's approximately 70% (google it).

Sex workers have families and societies, and they don't live or work in a vacuum. However grandiose it might sound to "save" or "rescue" them, it's just that: grandiose. Without saving and rescuing their families and societies economically, it's superficial and glossing over the real problems of economic inequality and poverty. Sex workers' organizations in Kolkata have been doing the real work to save and rescue the workers from poverty and illiteracy: they've been somewhat successful.

Even though Western media (and their clone Indian media) have always portrayed Kolkata as a dark, horrendous alley on its map of civilization, regardless of the fact that the city has major reservation about sex workers and Sonagachhi (and other brothels in the city), there are thousands of people whose progressive grassroots work, art, literature, movies, etc. have actually worked wonders to objectively paint the lives in Sonagachhi.

Contrary to Hollywood-awarded movies such as Born Into Brothels (Oscar, 2004) that paint a completely biased picture of Sonagachhi and its sex workers, the women in the brothels, their children, parents and friends in that dingy alley have done wonders to uplift their own lives, in spite of the extreme odds they struggle against on a daily basis. They will tell you they don't need missionaries to find them God; they're happy with their own. They do not want to be saved from sin; they want a poverty-free, abuse-free life -- to live in their own familiar surrounding.

Only their own people can mutually find the best lives for them.


I'm definitely not implying there's no need for intervention; there is. There are still major problems that need address.

However, looking at the problems without looking at the honorable struggles these women and their societies are carrying out for ages -- is no serious, investigative journalism. It might bring another Oscar or Western award (and fame and money the Born Into Brothels way), but that's really the extent of it.
'Raiding a Brothel in India' glosses over Kolkata and its people

Raiding a Brothel in India

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Op-Ed Columnist
Published: May 25, 2011
www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/opinion/26kristof.html

At the beginning, I knew only about a young teenage girl imprisoned on the third floor of a brothel in a red-light district here in Kolkata.

The pimps nicknamed her Chutki, or little girl. She had just been sold to the brothel-owner and seemed terrified.

Investigators with International Justice Mission, a Washington-based aid group that fights human trafficking, had spotted Chutki while prowling undercover looking for prostituted children. I.J.M. hoped to convince the Kolkata police to free the girl, but it would help to have more evidence that the girl was still imprisoned. So an I.J.M. official asked: Would I like to accompany him as he sneaked into the brothel to gather evidence?

India probably has more modern slaves than any country in the world. It has millions of women and girls in its brothels, often held captive for their first few years until they grow resigned to their fate. China surely has more prostitutes, but they are typically working voluntarily. India’s brothels are also unusually violent, with ferocious beatings common and pimps sometimes even killing girls who are uncooperative.

Unicef has estimated that worldwide 1.8 million children enter the sex trade each year. Too many are in the United States, which should prosecute pimps much more aggressively, but the worst abuses take place in countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Cambodia.

So I set off with the I.J.M. investigator (who wants to remain anonymous for his own safety) into the alleys of the Sonagachi red-light district one evening, slipped into the brothel, and climbed to the third floor. And there were Chutki and three other girls in a room, a pimp hovering over them. Perceiving us as potential customers, he offered them to us.

We demurred but said we’d be back.

The Kolkata police agreed to raid the brothel to free the girl. I.J.M. told them the location of the brothel at the last minute to avoid a tip-off from police ranks. The police casually asked us to lead the way in the raid since we knew what Chutki looked like and where she was kept.

So along with a carload of police, we drove up to the brothel and rushed inside to avoid giving the pimps time to hide Chutki or to escape themselves. With the I.J.M. representative in the lead, we hurtled up the stairs, brushed past the pimp and found Chutki and the three other girls in the same room where we had seen them before.

Two female social workers from I.J.M. immediately began comforting Chutki, who police said was about 15 and looked terrified. They explained that this was a police operation to rescue her, and they helped her put on a robe for modesty’s sake.

Then another of the girls in the room asked if she could be rescued — but a few days later. She explained that if she left now, the brothel-owners would blame her for the raid and possibly harm her grandmother, whose address they knew.

We told the girl that this chance might not come again. She dissolved into tears, wavered and then decided to come out. Then a third said that she wanted to escape as well.

The girls tipped off the police that the brothel-owner was in another building, arranging to sell a new girl named Raya for the very first time, either that evening or the next night. The police hurried off and returned with Raya, a wide-eyed girl of about 10 years.

It seemed that the brothel had purchased Raya just a week earlier, after her own brother-in-law tricked her and trafficked her. If the raid had been delayed by a few hours, she might have faced the first of many rapes.

With Raya was a 5-year-old girl who seemed to have been abandoned. Perhaps the brothel-owners were grooming her for sale in a few more years. So we emerged from the brothel with five lives that had just been transformed.

Equally important, one pimp had been arrested and arrest warrants had been issued for two more. There are no quick fixes to human trafficking, but experience in several countries suggests that prosecuting pimps and brothel-owners makes a difference.

A study in Cebu, Philippines, found that helping police and courts target child prostitution resulted in 87 arrests over four years — and a 79 percent reduction in the number of children in the sex trade.

We drove the five girls to a police station to fill out paperwork so that they could move into shelters and receive schooling or vocational training. Raya, the 10-year-old who otherwise at that moment might have been enduring her first rape, was giggly and carefree as she pretended to drive the car. She behaved like a silly little girl — which was thrilling.





IJM Rescue Operation featured in the New York Times
Thursday, 26 May 2011

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof accompanied IJM and local authorities on a rescue operation at a Kolkata brothel. After entering the site to locate one girl, Nicholas, law enforcement and the IJM team "emerged from the brothel with five lives that had just been transformed." ...
www.ijm.org/ijm-rescue-operation-featur ... york-times

Summary of the IJM study in Cebu, funded by the Gates Foundation, which profiles their rescue, law and order model. This is the model they are implementing globally through their vast empire. Here, they come up with a 79% figure, for reduction in trafficking:
www.ijm.org/projectlantern





Fallstudie: Sexworker wehren sich gegen US-Missionare, die Razzien ausgelöst haben (SANGRAM 2005):
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/download.php?id=631 PDF
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=80522#80522





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Kolkota/Kalkutta: Genossenschafts-Sparkasse/Bank für Sexworker:
Usha Multi-purpose Co-operative Society

A 'Grameen Bank' for Sonagachi sex workers


Nov 15, 2006

Kolkata: Bangladesh economist Muhammad Yunus may have won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create economic and social development from below through his Grameen Bank, but many would be surprised to know that sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi red-light district have a similar bank catering to their financial needs.

The bank is an attempt to make a difference in the lives of the sex workers. Interestingly, people associated with the endeavour have been related to the flesh trade, directly or indirectly.

The Usha Multi-purpose Co-operative Society, helps the sex workers, who are often boycotted by society, meet their monetary requirements. Women brought to Kolkata from some of the remotest parts of the country are barely able to maintain a record of money borrowed or the interest charged by these modern-day shylocks.

But the cooperative society, which began with 13 members, is today a big help for 8,000 members, most of whom are sex workers and their dependents. Most of the bank's employees are children of sex workers.

"We can deposit money and take it out as and when needed. That way our money gets saved. I have taken a loan and bought a house for myself and my children with the help of the bank and now I am very well off compared to what I was earlier," said Rama Saha, a sex worker, who has benefited from the society.

The cooperative society provides all services that any commercial bank offers, like educational loans, housing loans and savings accounts and charges interest much less than the organised banking sector.

"There are a lot of benefits which we get from the bank. Like in the savings account we can save money or take it out whenever we need it. We can also take loans, which are at very low interest rates. We also get loans for houses," said Julie Patua, a bank employee and daughter of a sex worker.

With more than 80 million rupees (1.73 million dollars), the cooperative society seeks to ameliorate the condition of sex workers.

"We found that there were a lot of girls who were living a horrible life due to these moneylenders charging high interests and harassing them. So we thought of starting this bank. We began with 13 people. Now they know whom to trust and the number of members has gone more than 8000.

We provide education loans for the children of sex workers and also give loans for houses," said Rekha Chatterjee, a sex worker and President of the Cooperative Society.

Prostitution is outlawed in India but the country is estimated to have over two million sex workers living on the fringes of society. They have few rights and are often abused by both customers and police in almost all places. Estimates by some voluntary groups indicate the number of sex workers is growing by almost 10 per cent every year and at least 600,000 minors are also employed in the flesh trade.

Women's rights groups have been demanding a legislation to ensure labour status for the sex workers for over a decade. Sex workers also accuse the government of violating human rights and are furious over a recent move to amend the existing Immoral Trafficking Prevention (ITP) Act, which imposes a six-month jail and hefty penalty on those visiting brothels. The legislation, they say, will pave way for an even worse life for them.

http://indiatraveltimes.com/society/soc ... 61104.html





Bank für Sexworker in Bombay/Mumbai (Westküste) seit 2007
Sangini Women's Co-operative Society bank
www.sanginiMicrofinance.com
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=59913#59913

Bank für Sexworker in Kalkutta/Kolkata (Ostküste) seit 1995
Usha Multi-purpose Co-operative Society
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=88957#88957

[fraences]

Indiens Kampf gegen die Tempel-Huren

- Prostitution hat in Indien eine lange Tradition. Bereits kleine Mädchen verrichten in Tempeln Liebesdienste. Doch jetzt gibt es Widerstand.

Indische Mädchen werden bereits früh zur Prostitution gezwungen.

Indien, das Land der Mythen, der Spiritualität und der Traditionen, kämpft gegen den Schatten seiner Vergangenheit. Noch heute werden Mädchen durch religiöse Kulte zur Prostitution gezwungen. Hilfs- und Menschenrechtsorganisationen wollen mit dieser Tradition aufräumen. Doch leicht ist dies nicht.
InfografikModerne SklavereiTimeline Indien
Im indischen Glauben ist der Geschlechtsakt, das zusammenkommen von Mann und Frau, ein göttlicher Akt. Die Hingabe der Frau zu diesem gilt deshalb als Hingabe zu Gott selber und ist alles andere als Sünde. Der Devadasi-Kult wollte es, dass sich Jungfrauen (zwischen fünf und neuen Jahren) noch vor ihrer Heirat in einem Tempel hergaben, meist einem Priester oder Gottesdiener. Viele Mädchen blieben auch später im Tempel und verrichteten Liebesdienste.

Anschaffen für die Familie

In der Moderne wurde dieser Brauch abgeändert und treibt viele vorwiegend aus ärmsten Familien stammende Mädchen in die Prostitution. Die Familien begannen die Jungfräulichkeit ihrer Mädchen zu verkaufen. Diese konnten dann nicht mehr weiter verheiratet werden, Schulen waren zu teuer. Die Mädchen blieben in der Prostitution. Aus der religiösen Tradition wurde eine Einnahmequelle für viele arme Familien.

In Indien arbeiten laut «Human Rights Watch» 20 Millionen Frauen als Prostituierte. Davon sind rund 35 Prozent ins Geschäft eingestiegen, bevor sie 18 Jahre alt waren. Die Frauen kommen vor allem aus Dörfern im Westen des Landes. Mit ihren Einkünften ernähren sie ganze Familien. Eine Prostituierte in Neu Delhi verdient pro Tag rund 20 Dollar, eine ganze Familie auf dem Land kommt auf etwa einen Dollar.

Bildung gegen Not

Verschiedene Organisationen, wie etwa Plan India, wollen dem Treiben nun ein Ende setzen. Für sie ist das beste Mittel gegen die Prostitution die Bildung. Darum verstärken sie ihre Bemühungen in den armen Gegenden im Westen des Landes und eröffnen Schulen für die Kinder.

Auch Medien berichten vermehrt über den Missstand. CNN hat in einer Dokumentation die 13-jährige Puja aus dem Distrikt Bharatpur vorgestellt. Sie besucht als eines der wenigen Mädchen in ihrer Region eine von Plan India gegründete Schule. Anders als ihre Mutter, die zur Prostitution gezwungen wurde, will sie nicht im Milieu arbeiten. Sie träumt davon, Schauspielerin zu werden. Mit dem Besuch der Schule ist sie diesem Traum ein Stück näher.


http://www.20min.ch/news/ausland/story/ ... n-11055814

[fraences]

Die indische Tradition der Spiritualität schafft auch heute die Tempel-Prostitution nicht ab.

Spiritualität in Indien – das Leid der Tempel-Prostitution

Indien, das Land der Mythen, der Spiritualität und der gesellschaftlichen Traditionen, kämpft gegen den Schatten seiner Vergangenheit. Noch heute werden Mädchen durch Kulte der indischen Spiritualität zur Prostitution gezwungen. Die Spiritualität der indischen Tradition spricht sich nicht dagegen aus. Hilfs- und Menschenrechtsorganisationen wollen mit dieser Tradition im Lichte der indischen Spiritualität aufräumen. Doch leicht ist dies nicht so einfach wie man denken könnte.

Der Devadasi-Kult der indischen Spiritualität

In der indischen Tradition ist der Geschlechtsakt, das zusammenkommen von Mann und Frau, ein göttlicher Akt. Die Hingabe der Frau zu diesem gilt deshalb als Hingabe zu Gott selber und ist alles andere als Sünde. Der Devadasi-Kult wollte es, dass sich Jungfrauen (zwischen fünf und neuen Jahren) noch vor ihrer Heirat in einem Tempel hergaben, meist einem Priester oder Gottesdiener. Viele Mädchen blieben auch später im Tempel und verrichteten Liebesdienste.

Anschaffen im Tempel für die Familie

In der heutigen Zeit wurde dieser Brauch abgeändert und treibt viele junge Frauen, vorwiegend aus ärmsten Familien stammende Mädchen, in die Tempel-Prostitution. Die Familien begannen schon früher, die Jungfräulichkeit ihrer Töchter zu verkaufen. Diese konnten dann nicht mehr weiter verheiratet werden, Schulen waren zu teuer. Die Mädchen blieben in der Prostitution. Aus der religiösen Tradition wurde eine Einnahmequelle für viele arme Familien.


http://www.deaf-deaf.de/?p=195813

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Man/frau stelle sich einmal vor das Institut der Tempelprostitution, Prostitution oder Sexarbeit wäre organisiert wie Zivildienst/Militärdienst für eine beschränkte Zeit nach der Schulausbildung für alle...


Es gäbe soziale Anerkennung.
Es gäbe institutionalisierte Sicherheit.
Es gäbe Ausbildung und Begleitung und somit höchstwahrscheinlich wenig bis kaum Probleme die lustvoll-intime-anspruchsvolle-bis-schwere Arbeit zu erbringen und zu verarbeiten...


Und möglicherweise als positiven Nebeneffekt auch eine viel friedvollere weil befriedigte öffentliche Kultur in den Bereichen Wirtschaft und Politik.

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Forts. zur Studie:


Why Do Women in India Become Sex Workers?

They can make more money and live better


Written by Geeta Seshu
Wednesday, 25 May 2011


Poverty and limited education push females into labor markets at an early age, but the sheer desire for a better income and a better life pushes them into sex work, according to a path-breaking, pan-India survey of sex workers.

Only about 20 percent of the women surveyed were forced, sold, cheated or otherwise pushed into sex work according to the study, which was conducted in 2009 and only recently released.

Nearly 80 percent of the 3,000 females surveyed in 14 states across the country entered sex work by themselves. The higher incomes and livelihoods they could access weighed significantly in that decision.

The harsh fact is that for many women, working conditions are cruel or incomes are disastrously low in other labor markets, the survey categorically revealed.

"Sex work as work should be placed in the context of women's choice rather than our own understanding or preferences," said economist Rohini Sahni, who released the preliminary findings of the survey in Mumbai.

In the post-HIV context, hygiene or control of the 'high risk' population dominates surveys of sex workers, but there was no information on the economic aspects of their work, Sahni said.

Sahni and V. Kalyan Shankar of Pune University's Department of Economics analysed the data emerging from the survey, which was conducted under the aegis of the Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation (CASAM) as part of the Paulo Longo Research Initiative (PLRI) on sex work research.

The women who participated in this unique survey come from different backgrounds, ages, language, cultures and states as diverse as Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, and so on. More than 35 civil society organizations and individuals fanned out to administer a questionnaire to the sex workers, chosen in areas where they were not collectivized so as to preclude any influence in the responses.

What they found was that poverty and limited education push women into the labor force at early ages and sex workers are no exception.

While 60 percent were from rural family backgrounds and 65 percent from poor family backgrounds – 26 percent are of middle class origins. Half of them had no schooling while the educational levels of the others were seven percent (primary schooling up to Class Four), 13.4 percent (secondary schooling up to Class Seven), 6.5 percent (up to Class Ten) and 11.3 percent (up to Class Twelve).

The percentages of those who were forced (7.1), sold (2.8), cheated (9.2) or were 'devadasis' (0.6), as against the 79.4 per cent who said that they entered sex work of their own volition, was an interesting indicator of the 'force' versus 'choice' debate in many discussions on sex work.

"There is a lot of misinformation on this issue because of our obsession with trafficking. Very few women are forced into sex work but the public narrative is overwhelmingly that of force," said anthropologist Professor Andrea Cornwall of the University of Sussex, UK, who is part of PLRL, a global network of academics and activists engaged in research on sex work.

The findings of such a survey would give recognition to the labour of women in sex work as well as start a discourse on their working conditions – a precursor to determining their rights, Prof. Cornwall added.

Of the 3,000 women surveyed,
1,158 said that they had entered sex work directly,
1,488 said they had experience of other labor markets before or alongside sex work, while
326 had other work identities but the sequence of their entry was not known.

Sahni, unscrambling the data, revealed that the sex workers listed a range of activities they did before getting into sex work: Puri and papad-making, domestic work, tailoring, working in beauty parlors, doing agricultural labor or construction labor, or peddling anything from bangles to socks to fruit and vegetables.

Asked why they left their earlier occupations, the predominant response was economic: Low pay, no profit in business, no regular work, insufficient money to run the home. The harassment and harsh working conditions they faced as unorganized laborers, coupled with insufficient income, made them consider sex work as a more economically rewarding option, according to Sahni.

Respondents said they made incomes between Rs 500-1,000 per month (US$1=Rs 44) in other labor markets.

They revealed that there was an immediate jump when they came into sex work, citing incomes ranging from Rs 1,000-3,000, with a substantial number saying they earned anything between Rs 3,000-5,000.

Interestingly, an examination of the categories of those forced/sold/cheated or involving an element of abuse was roughly similar across those who entered sex work directly and those who entered after working in other labor markets, at 22.1 percent and 24.8 percent, respectively.

However, those sold were much higher in the category of direct entrants, and the agents involved in this abuse were husbands, lovers, friends and acquaintances.

Another interesting aspect emerging from the preliminary analysis of the data was that 60.27 percent of women who entered the profession were in the 19-22 age group. While some of them may later go on to work in other labor markets (at 23-26 years of age), the females from other labor markets who enter into sex work do so at 19-22 years, with others in the 23-26 year or 27-30 year age groups.

The survey yielded a rich store of data, but more number crunching and analysis are required to determine trends related to sexuality, abuse, stigma, migration patterns for the female, male and transgender sex workers. But, as Sahni put it, at least some middle ground can be established to address the reality of sex work and demystify simplistic and stereotypical narratives about it.


www.asiaSentinel.com/index.php?option=c ... Itemid=404

www.plri.org/story/why-do-women-india-b ... ex-workers

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Projekt für Kinder von Sexworkern bzw. Menschenhandelsopfern in Mumbai:

Revolutionary Daughters

30 min Doku English
Filmmaker: Kate Taunton
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes ... 56456.html

(Sender Alazeera "gehört" dem US-freundlichen Regime in Katar)

This is a film about two unique activists in India. Based in Mumbai, Robin and Trina helped found www.kranti-india.org, an organisation that works to empower women that have been trafficked.

India has many worthy NGOs that rescue girls but Robin and Trina are grass roots activists that challenge traditional methods.

They do not just rescue trafficked girls, they house them for the long term, educate them and help them achieve their goals. The girls in their programme are even called 'revolutionaries' [and not survivors!].

This film follows Activists Robin Chaurasiya and Trina Talukdar as they struggle against daily prejudice in a very traditional society.





Hilfsorganisation Apne Ap war schon mal negativ aufgefallen: Harvard Studenten und Spendengeber berichten 2010 anläßlich eines Besuchs vor Ort in Delhi über das Scheitern des Projektes:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=90196#90196

Sexworker Zeitung www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=90196#90196
www.apneaAp.org/redlight_despatch/

[nicole6]

In Indien war eine der größten Protestmärsche von Homosexuellen
und Lesbierinnen gegen die Diskrimination in ihrer Gesellschaft.
Hier ein Video dazu. Der Kommentar ist in italienisch, aber das
Video braucht wenig Kommentar:
http://video.repubblica.it/mondo/india- ... ref=HREV-3

ciao!
Nicole

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Sexworker entfliehen vom Polizeitransport zur Zwangsuntersuchung in Bombay

Mumbai sex workers outnumber cops in bid to flee


Published: Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011, 22:49 IST
By Shahkar Abidi | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

In a recent incident, a group of 21 commercial sex workers (CSWs), who were being escorted by the Dahisar police for a medical check-up, tried to escape from police custody by jumping off the vehicle.

While 20 were nabbed by a team of 2 men and 2 women constables, one managed to escape.

A high-level departmental enquiry has been initiated to look into the incident, police sources said.

However, they added that the episode was inevitable. Given the size of the group under custody, at least 7 women police constables should have been present. But, despite a request for the same, higher authorities allotted only 2 women constables for the duty. In addition, the 2 male constables who were present were helpless since they are not allowed to arrest women.

The CSWs were held last month during a raid at a chawl near the Dahisar check-naka. Most of them hail from the Indo-Bangladesh border and

at least 6 are suspected to be minors. The minors’ age verification had to be conducted more than once at different hospitals, since the child welfare committee suspected that the girls were above 18 years old. This resulted in frequent trips to the hospital with insufficient manpower and even shortage of vehicles at times.

A source said, “For many days, the CSWs were driven around in open trucks, thereby posing great risk.” This too was brought to the notice of the seniors, but no action was taken, the sources added.

www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_mumbai-s ... ee_1625497





Razzia Blog:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1062

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Veshya Dhanda - Sex work is work





Sangli, Maharastra, West India
3rd Mach 2012
Intl. Sexworker Pride Day


www.sangram.org

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Sexworker Studie (oben hinzugefügt):
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/download.php?id=999

[Marc of Frankfurt]

20 Jähriges Jubiläum von Durbar [die Unwiderstehlichen]




Jouno Kormi = sex worker


www.lauraAgustin.com/kolkata-sex-worker ... s-20-years

www.livemint.com/2012/02/24202846/The-n ... gachi.html


Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC)
Collective of 65,000 sex workers in
48 branches in the state of West Bengal, India
3 story office in 12/5 Nilmoni Mitra Street, south west of Sonagashi
17 non-formal schools for children of sex workers
Avinash clinic
Durbar Prakashani publishing house (Book "Only Rights can Stop the Wrongs")
Komol Gandhar cultur and dance company
Durbar football team
...
www.durbar.org

In 1992 Dr. Smarajit Jana of Kolkata’s All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health realized that for the sex workers,
- their children’s education,
- access to financial services and
- fending of police harassment and
- torture by local thugs
was more important than urging a client to use a condom. So Dr Jana founded DMSC, with sex workers as stakeholders, based on the value of “collective bargaining power”.
www.scientificAmerican.com/article.cfm? ... tutes-unio
www.subratosensharma.tripod.com/jana.html


Sex Worker Bank
Usha, consumer cooperative society and micro-credit programme under DMSC
5.000 members (Konten)
Annual turnover Rs. 9.75 crore = ca. 100 Mio. INR = 1.600.000 EUR
= ca. 300 Euro/Mitglied und Jahr
Dabei betragen die Preise für Sex 8-130 EUR und für Zimmermiete 160-240 EUR/month. Warum also haben die Sexworker nur so wenig auf dem Konto oder können nur so wenig sparen???
Usha disbursed Rs. 2.12 crore in loans (320.000 EUR).
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=88957#88957

Geld und Spar Kalkulations-Tool für Sexworker
Kredithaie verlangten 300% (jährlich) = ca. 40% pro Tag!
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5319&start=76

Sex workers received identity cards with the Election Commission of India recognizing their Usha membership as valid identity proof.

Bharati Dey, secretary, ist zuständig für die intl. Vernetzung und Kontakte zur Fördergebern.

Some sex workers also have health insurance.
Durbar machte anonyme HIV/AIDS-Tests für Studien, ohne den HIV-Status den getesteten mitzuteilen.


Durbar is famous for setting up sex workers' self-regulatory boards (SRB) helping to prevent exploitation and trafficking:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=38203#38203

"Purnima Chatterjee sits on a self-regulatory board which works as a watchdog body in all DMSC branches against trafficking and introduction of minor and unwilling girls into the trade..."

Sex worker movement time table:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4508&start=82





Rotlichtviertel Sonagashi
home to an estimated 11.000 sex workers,
ca. 3.000 sex workers educated in safe and hygienic practices [27%, 1/3].

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Shobha bazar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Metro railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Station . . . . . . . .[Pratim Bose 2009]

http://maps.google.de/maps?ll=22.593473 ... 6,0.004168

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonagachi

[Marc of Frankfurt]

In Indien ist die Debatte genauso polarisiert wie bei uns


Veranstaltung der Prostitutionsgegner und Helfer Industrie mit Feministin Gloria Steinem und Ruchira Gupta von Apne Aap (on our own) www.apneAap.org | www.aawc.in bekannt durch: Finanzierungsskandal, Medienpropaganda, Sexworker Zeitung...

Und Gegenstimmen der Sexworker-Hilfsvereine www.durbar.org , www.sangram.org und Menschenrechteaktivisten in der Presse ...







http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem

Gloria Steinem was among those who acknowledged working for a C.I.A.-financed organization as head of Independent Service for Information (ISI) at the communist-sponsored World Youth Festival in Vienna 1959
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/now_ ... _cia_asset
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books ... d=all&_r=2&





[PRO SEXWORK] Moralistic assumptions

Shohini Ghosh
[She made the film 'tales of the Night Faeries' about DMSC.]

Gloria Steinem's “feminist approach” to trafficking and prostitution is not shared by all feminists. Many of us do not believe that abolishing sex work will stop trafficking, nor do we think that the two are synonymous. The conflation of sex-work with ‘trafficking' stems from the moralistic assumption that women can never voluntarily choose sex work as a profession and are always ‘trafficked' into it. This idea has been conclusively challenged by the sex workers rights movement that has tirelessly argued that trafficking (that is induction into the trade through force, coercion or deception) is a crime whereas the exchange of sexual services between two consenting adults is not.

Just as all sex work is not linked to trafficking, all trafficking is also not linked to sex work. While it is certainly true that many women (and children) enter sex-work under violent and exploitative conditions, this is no different from other livelihood occupations in the unorganized sector such as agricultural and domestic work, construction and industrial labour. Ironically, those who demand the abolition of sex work to stop trafficking do not make the same argument for domestic work despite the fact that conditions, wages, working hours, levels of exhaustion are far worse for domestic workers.

It has been repeatedly pointed out that the statistics on 'trafficking' have no basis in a rigorous methodology, scientific evidence or primary research. A study undertaken by the Special Rappateur on Violence Against Women demonstrated the extreme difficulty of finding reliable statistics since so much of the activity happens underground. Consequently, 'trafficking' statistics are derived from figures relating to sex-work, migration and even numbers of “missing persons”. By failing to distinguish between sex-work, migration and trafficking, ‘abolitionists' like Steinem only serve to make the gender-neutral term synonymous with the female migrant.

Ironically, some of the best work on ‘trafficking' in India is being done by the Self Regulatory Boards of the Durbar Mahila Swamanyay Committee (DMSC) www.durbar.org which emerged out of the famous STD/HIV Intervention Project (SHIP) in Sonagachi, now an internationally acclaimed model sexual health project. The DMSC considers sex-work to be a contractual sexual service negotiated between consenting sexual adults and demands decriminalization of adult sex-work. If feminists like Gloria Steinem and organizations like Apne Aap want to end trafficking in sex-work, their best bet is to recognize sex-work as labour, support its decriminalization and empower the sex-worker to fight exploitation, coercion and stigma.

www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-nation ... 285941.ece





[PRO SEXWORK] Need for a nuanced debate

Dr Kumkum Roy
Director of the Women's Studies Programme at the JNU

Gloria Steinem's talk was organised by the Women's Studies Programme, JNU, in collaboration with Apne Aap, and we had hoped that it would be an occasion for discussing the complexities of the issues involved. However, there were clearly differences in perspective—while there can be no disagreement that involuntary trafficking is a serious issue, the fact that women (and men) may have few choices in several situations, and may then ‘choose' options that may not be in tune with the ideals of middle-class/upper caste women (and men) needed to be explored rather than dismissed.

In the open discussion that followed Ms Steinem's presentation, there were several participants who agreed with her positions. However, others pointed out that there were certain simplistic assumptions involved. For instance, Ms Steinem and Ruchira Gupta of Apne Aap refuse to recognize that unionized sex workers are voicing their own opinions—these women are dismissed as puppets of pimps and brothel owners—a gross simplification in view of the sheer numbers of women across the country who have unionised in a bid to claim human rights and dignity.

Other voices of dissent pointed out to the need to look at issues of poverty and labour in general, and locate sex work within that context, and/ or within a larger context of violence rather than homogenise all prostitutes/ sex workers. While side-stepping rather than engaging with these questions, one of Ms Steinem's responses was that she would not mind if prostitutes, as she chooses to designate all sex workers, paid income tax—at the same time she advocated a strategy of penalizing but not criminalizing the client—how these were to be achieved remained unclear.

We, in the Women's Studies Programme, feel the need for a far more nuanced discussion and debate on these issues—one in which women who express a different point of view are not dismissed as being in a denial mode. Given that some of these issues were raised in the open discussion and in the concluding remarks, it would have only been fair that some of these found reflection in the reporting on the event.

www.theHindu.com/news/national/article3287164.ece





[PRO SEXWORK] The false asumptions of the feminists

Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad, Sangli.

www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=113879#113879





[CONTRA PROSTITUTION] Up against the epidemic of trafficking

Neha Alawadhi

“Prostitution is not inevitable, it is only about unequal distribution of power,” said author/activist Gloria Steinem talking about “Feminist approaches to combating sex trafficking and prostitution” here in NEW DELHI on Monday 2. April 2012.

Speaking at a Press conference and later at an interaction with students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, she spoke about the dynamics of human trafficking based on her experiences. “Today we face an epidemic of sex trafficking. More people are being pushed into it than even the slave trade,” said Ms. Steinem.

According to the statistics provided by Apne Aap, an NGO that fights sex trafficking worldwide, the number of child victims trafficked globally for sexual exploitation or cheap labour is 1.2 million annually. The National Human Rights Commission estimates that almost half the children trafficked within India are between the ages of 11 and 14.

Corroborating these facts, Ms. Steinem said: “The average age for children to be pushed into sex trafficking is between 12 and 13 in the United States and between 9 and 12 in India. The perception is that very young children are less likely to have AIDS.” Quoting from her experiences in different countries, she said women who are trafficked suffer a great deal because of patriarchal structures and religions.

Speaking about the situation in India, Apne Aap Women Worldwide founder president Ruchira Gupta pointed out that socio-economic causes contribute a great deal towards sexual exploitation and trafficking of women in India. “90% of trafficking in India is internal, and those from India's most disadvantaged social economic strata including the lowest castes are particularly vulnerable to forced or bonded labour and sex trafficking,” she said.

Ms. Steinem agreed saying that the less “valuable” women who are not expected to maintain the “purity” of a class, caste or race are the ones most likely to fall prey to human trafficking worldwide.

Speaking about the legal aspect of human trafficking and the legalisation of prostitution in some regions, Ms. Steinem said: “Body invasion [sie meint wohl penetrierenden/aufnehmenden Geschlechtsverkehr* ] is the most traumatising act…it should not be legal to sell the bodies of other people.” She also rubbished the idea that prostitution was the oldest profession, which is propounded by supporters of legalising prostitution. “It is one of the oldest oppressions, not oldest professions,” she said.

An Apne Aap fact-sheet pointed out that in India trafficking laws are not comprehensively laid out, especially with regard to the trafficking of children. “The Indian Penal Code addresses issues of buying and sale of minors, importation of girls etc…The Goa Children's Act (2003) is the only Indian statute that provides a legal definition of trafficking and is child specific,” it said.

Ms. Steinem plans to travel to parts of villages in Bihar and in Kolkata with Apne Aap to look at issues of sex trafficking and prostitution in these areas.

www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3276106.ece

* Andrea Dworkin theorised vaginal penetration by a penis as imperialism.
www.lauraAgustin.com/in-india-gloria-st ... quarreling

[PRO SEXWORK] Rescue as identity marker for under-employed middle-class women.

Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities
Laura María Agustín
www.rhizomes.net/issue10/agustin.htm

This Pan-Indian study has different age findings:

source





[CONTRA PROSTITUTION] Body invasion is de-humanising

Gloria Steinem

When I'm meeting with women and girls in prostitution in my own country as well as some countries of Europe, Africa and here in India, I've always asked what they would like for their daughter. So far, the answers have not included prostitution.

That's especially striking given the profound differences in their lives, from Manhattan call girls to women in the brothel line-ups of Sonagachi; from women in the counties around Las Vegas, the only places in the US where prostitution is legal, to bar girls from the villages of Ghana and the scheduled castes in Bihar where women are consigned to prostitution by birth. Indeed, the same seems to be true of prostituted males who serve male clients.

The truth seems to be that the invasion of the human body by another person – whether empowered by money or violence or authority -- is de-humanising in itself. Yes, there are many other jobs in which people are exploited, but prostitution is the only one that by definition crosses boundary of our skin and invades our most central sense of self. I know this is a subject that needs much more exploring, but I want to indicate it in shorthand because I think it's the source of the misunderstanding in these two letters in response to a lecture I gave at Jawaharlal Nehru University on April 2.

I did not say -- nor do I think, as Shohini Ghosh supposes -- that sex trafficking and prostitution are “synonymous.” Though both are created by the same customers who want unequal sex, they represent crucial differences in a woman's ability to escape or control her own life. However, I would not equate prostitution with domestic work, as she does. That ignores the damage and trauma of the body invasion that is intrinsic to the former and should never be part of the latter. Also I don't think “consenting adults” is practical answer to structural inequality. Even sexual harassment law requires that sexual attention be “welcome,” not just “consensual.” It recognizes that consent can be coerced.

In addition, Kumkum Roy criticizes me for not using the term “sex worker.” I know this term is common in AIDS policy and academia, but it turned out to be dangerous in real life. For instance, in places as disparate as Germany and Nevada in the US, government used the idea that prostitution is “a job like any other” to withhold welfare and unemployment benefits from women who failed to try it. Only protests by women's movements ended this form of procurement. As a popular term, I notice that prostituted girls and women say “survival sex,” as more descriptive as well as a breach of human rights.

Finally, I devoutly wish that unions had improved conditions in brothels, kept children out of prostitution and lessened disease and violence, as they promised to do, but in fact, there has been a huge increase in trafficking, girls in prostitution have become younger and younger, and there is no independent evidence of lowering rates of AIDS. What the idea of unions has done is to enhance the ability of the sex industry to attract millions of dollars from the Gates Foundation for the distribution on condoms, despite the fact that customers often pay more for sex without condoms, and it has created a big new source of income for brothel owners, pimps and traffickers who are called “peer educators,” I understand that that the traffic of women and girls into Sonagachi has greatly increased.

But there is good news. The old polarization into legalization and criminalization is giving way to a more practical, woman-centered and successful Third Way: De-criminalize the prostituted persons, offer them meaningful choices, prosecute traffickers, pimps and all who sell the bodies of others, and also penalize the customers who create the market while educating them about its tragic human consequences.

Those are turning out to be goals on which many people work together.

www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3287212.ece





[CONTRA PROSTITUTITION] Gloria Steinem speaks on the Feminist Approach to Combating Sex Trafficking and Prostitution

for Apne Aap's 10th Anniversary, New Delhi 2. April 2012.

[...] Up to now, the dialogue has been falsely polarized as legalization versus criminalization. The women-centered reality is that people with the least power are arrested and people with the most power are not. A third way is not to arrest the women but to provide real alternatives to women and to penalize and rehabilitate customers and use the full force of the law against those who buy and sell the bodies of others.
...
we have discovered in the U.S., that the average rapist has raped 14 times
...
Second, is the equally patriarchal but secular and “masculine” idea that freedom and democracy and even human rights are defined as the maximum sexual availability of females to males – under male terms. This view doesn’t have the cultural force of religion behind it, but it does have the force of the huge sums of money in the sex industry, and also the ubiquitous power of pornography that normalizes the sexual domination of women. It’s different from erotica, as is embedded in the word itself. Porne means female slaves, while eros, which means love, has an implication of mutual pleasure and free choice.
...
pornography is as different from erotica as rape is from sex -- [feminists] have been condemned as anti-sex by the secular patriarchal groups, and some women have been punished by exclusion from this patriarchal, secular, academic and political world.
...
Meanwhile some secular feminists have come to support commercialized sex – even legalized prostitution and sex trafficking as “facilitated migration” – and feel that if they don’t, they will be criticized by the patriarchal left or will be taking survival sex or even a form a sexual freedom away from some prostituted women.
...
First, it’s hard to find any activists who think that a prostituted woman should be arrested. She is the victim, not the criminal. Yet that has been the practice of law enforcement, and has only strengthened brothel owners and trafficker who can accurately say that jail is a prostituted woman’s only alternative.
...
A prostituted woman is often rejected by a biased world, has her own Stockholm Syndrome to overcome, and has such low self-evaluation that attempting anything else seems hopeless. That is especially true if, like many, she has been sexually abused as child and has come to believe she has no other value, or if she belongs to a group that has been historically prostituted. But it is a tribute to the human spirit – both among activists and prostituted women – that in my country, groups like GEMS www.gems-girls.org and in yours, groups like Apne Aap, are seeing women transform from objects to self-willed human beings.
...
Fourth, women’s movements and some enlightened countries are focusing on the market without which none of this would exist: the men who pay to get sex under unequal conditions. They are by no means the majority of men. Most studies have shown that a third of men or less patronize prostitutes; thus prostitution and sex trafficking are neither natural nor inevitable. They are functions of inequality combined with a false view of “masculinity.” Prostitution is not the oldest profession, it is the oldest oppression.

I cannot emphasize enough how important this realization is: prostitution is not an inevitable or natural part of human nature. Think of the eras before when, say, rape – or even monarchy or smoking – were considered inevitable or even normal. Now, what is succeeding are efforts to penalize those who buy another human being, and also to give them the facts of the harm they are doing to others -- and to themselves.

Fifth, the centerpiece of the prostitution industry itself – legalization – has completeky failed to deliver on its promises of no underage prostitution or less violence or less disease. For instance: the 10 counties in Nevada where prostitution is legal turned out to be places where sex trafficked and underage girls are taken to be broken in. I saw once that food being thrown over the high fence by a neighbor to feed the women kept behind it. In Germany, where prostitution is legalized and called “hospitality work,” women h[a]d to show they applied and were willing to take such jobs before getting unemployment benefits.

[ Das ist eine völlige Fehlinformation resultierend aus alten reißerischen Pressemelungen kurz nach der Einführung des ProstG, als es noch keine Ausführungsbestimmungen der Arbeitsagentur gab, die später höchstrichterlich bestätigt wurden (Urteil 07. Mai 2009 vom Bundessozialgericht Kassel Az.: B 11 AL 11/08 R. // This is total misinformation resulting from old news stories, when the new liberal prostitution legalisation legislation were enforced and not all details were known locally related to job and social security agencies. Later that was officially dismissed by the national employment bureau and confirmed by highest court ruling that there is no link between receiving social benefits and necessity to compulsory take on sex work. (ruling federal court at Kassel, Mai 7th, 2009 Az.: B 11 AL 11/08 R) www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=55927#55927 Ann. Marc ]

The same thing happened with welfare in Nevada. Only massive efforts by women’s movements stopped this obvious use of legalization as a form of recruitment.

In 2003, the mayor of Amsterdam where prostitution is famously legal said, “it appears impossible to create a safe and controlled zone for women that was not opened to abuse by organized crime.” It also hasn’t been possible to independently document any diminishing incidence of AIDS or child prostitution despite payment to brothel owners and keepers to distribute condoms, and despite claims of so-called unions that claim to bar children. Where I have been on Sonagachchi for instance, I have looked inside doors and seen the children, who theoretically are being kept out. But then, unlike Bill Gates, I did not announce that I was coming.

Nor do studies show that indoor prostitution is less traumatizing than outdoor, or that buzzers in rooms prevent injury by sadistic customers. The overall rate of life expectancy for prostituted women is comparable to men in combat. Indeed it turns out that body invasion is even more traumatizing than beating. Our skin is our defense, our body is our domain and sense of self.

Sixth: While it may or may not be legal for an individual adult women or man to sell her or his sexual services -- providing they pay income tax -- it should not be legal to sell the bodies of others. Thus pimps, brothel keepers and certainly traffickers should be pursued with the full force of law.

In Sweden, Norway ad other Scandanavian countries, it is not illegal to sell sex but it is illegal to buy it. This is not irrational, it is simply a recognition of unequal power ad thus unequal responsibility.

It is crucial to understand that only this recognition of reality has resulted in a lessening of prostitution and sex-trafficking.

We have reached a crucial place in history. We know that prostitution is bot inevitable, that it is a function of unequal power and the cult of gender that perpetuates it. Yet in my country, there are girls and women-especially women of colour and Native American women, who are tattooed with a pimp’s distinguishing mark so other pimps will be warned away; sometimes a tattoo that is itself a code. We have a long way to go. And we must at listen and never think there is only one or even any pre-determined solution.
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[T]he Ku orthe San in Africa where rape and prostitution were unknown. Indeed, their language didn’t even have gender. Women and men, people and nature, were linked rather than ranked. Women controlled their own bodies and fertility. That way of life accounted for 95 % of human history. What we think of as inevitable-gender roles-accounts for less than 5 %.

www.apneaap.org/news/events/gloria-stei ... tion-apne-





[CONTRA PROSTITUTION] Zur Feminismus/Prostitutions-Debatte in Deutschland siehe Alice Schwarzer und Sandra Maischberger:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3601
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9324

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Anatomy of Anti-Sex-Trafficking Funding


Dahinter stehen starke Stiftungen von konservativen Unternehmern, die sich einen sozialen Mantel überstreifen.

So kooperiert mit Apne Aap von Journalistin Ruchira Gupta die Stiftung NoVo Foundation vom Sohn Peter von Milliardär Warren Buffet:
www.lauraagustin.com/anatomy-of-sex-tra ... ue-project

Gestritten wird auch um UN-AIDS Finanzierung für Kampagnen wie z.B. Verteilung von Kondomen an Sexworker ... was angeblich nur dazu diene Freier zu schützen aber nicht Frauen vor der Prostitution.





In den USA werden die Prostitutionsgegner z.B. organisiert von der Consulting Firma Abt Associates und der Stiftung Hunt Alternatives des Ölmilliardärs H.L. Hunt aus Dallas und seiner Tochter Swanee Hunt (*1950):
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=88574#88574

[Arum]

          

In 2003, the mayor of Amsterdam where prostitution is famously legal said, “it appears impossible to create a safe and controlled zone for women that was not opened to abuse by organized crime.”

Kann sein, dass Steinem hier richtig zitiert; dass also Job Cohen, als er noch Bürgermeister war, so etwa gesagt hat, kann aber auch nicht sein.

Ich habe mal im Netz recherchiert ob es da irgendeine niederländische Quelle in dieser Richtung gibt. Bin nur auf mvgcontact.org/PornografieDrijfveerSekshandel.doc gestossen, wo es heisst:

"het bleek onmogelijk een veilige en controleerbare zone af te bakenen die niet uitnodigt tot misbruik door georganiseerde misdaad."

Aber dieses Dokument ist selber wieder die niederländische Übersetzung dieser (mehr als reisserischen) Ausgabe:


PORNOGRAPHY: DRIVING THE DEMAND
IN INTERNATIONAL SEX TRAFFICKING

published by

CAPTIVE DAUGHTERS MEDIA

http://www.captivedaughters.org/book.html

Daran hat z.B. auch Melissa Fairley beigetragen, eine nächste Person die nicht wirklich als Garant für Wahrheitstreue gelten darf...

..

Es sieht ganz danach aus, dass Prostitutionsbekämpfung dabei ist eine wirklich grosse Industrie zu werden...

Auf der Öffnungsseite der Captive Daughters HP ( http://www.captivedaughters.org/index.html ) begegnet man übrigens diesem bemerkenswerten Satz:

"NOTE:

Captive Daughters has no direct contact with victims."

Irgendwie wundert mich das nicht...

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Happy Hookers is one of the first films to come out of India on the controversial subject of male prostitutes. The film follows the 3 protagonists- from their homes through their daily activities, revealing aspects of sexuality and what it takes to be a male sex worker in a country that criminalized homosexuality through the outdated Article 377.




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Buch von Xaviera Hollander mit gleichem Titel:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=40595#40595

male sex work
www.sexworker.at/callboy

Filme
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=737

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Autobiography of a Sex Worker,
Nalini Jameela,
Westland Books
2010

I am nalini. Was born at Kalloor near Amballoor (near Cochin city, Kerala, south India). I am forty-nine years old.” When Nalini Jameela wrote the first sentences of her autobiography in a notebook in 2003...

Njan, Laingikatozhilaali went through six editions and sold 13,000 copies in 100 days.

Jameela speaks as a sex worker, a description deliberately defined by her profession.

She also speaks as a daughter, wife, mother and friend; and as a public figure, with a name and a face, rather than remaining anonymous.

www.indianexpress.com/news/nalinis-story/225004/0

www.amazon.com/The-Autobiography-Worker ... 8189975110

www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=14773#14773

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Inder nutzen die selbe Form der öffentlichen Protestaktion wie zuletzt für Griechenland:


Sexarbeiterin von Polizist mißhandel erleidet Fehlgeburt

• Justice for anu, sex worker
  
  Greetings,
  
  Justice For ANu Mokal. She suffered a miscarriage due to physical assault at the hands of Satara Police.
  
  
  
  To
  
  Chief Minister,
  
  Maharshtra
  
  Anu Mokal, a pregnant woman was beaten up by Police in Satara, Maharashtra. She was so severely beaten that she had a miscarriage and lost her baby. No Law in the country allows Police to physically assault a women. This case is worst because male cops have assaulted a female victim.
  
  Her fault, being a sex worker.
  
  On 2nd April, around 7:30 PM, Anu Mokal accompanied by Anjana Ghadge were taking dinner for her friend Jaya Kamble who was undergoing treatment in the local civil hospital. When they were passing the Satara bus stand area, senior police inspector Dayanand Dhome started yelling at them using abusive language. When they told him that they were only taking food for their friend, he called them liars and without any provocation, Dhome and his subordinates started beating Anu and her friend Anjana Ghadge.
  
  Dhome repeatedly said that women like Anu are a 'shame' to him while he continued to kick her. Anu fell down and pleaded that she was four months pregnant but they continued kicking and beating her. She was then forcibly taken to the police station. Anu and Anjana were detained and put in a lockup from where Anu and Anjana were routinely taken to civil hospital for treatment. Anu told the doctor she was pregnant and he prescribed medication, but the police didn't allow her to buy nor did they give the medication to her.
  
  On 3/4/2012 they were produced before the magistrate and were released after a payment of Rs 1200 fine for an offense not known to them or specified. They were taken to the civil hospital again by members of Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad [VAMP], a network of sex workers and Anu received medication.
  
  But on 5/04/2012 night, she suffered a miscarriage. The miscarriage is quite likely to have resulted from the trauma of the thrashing by Dayanand Dhome and his subordinates. She has filed a complaint against Inspector Dhome and his colleagues with the Superintendent of Police K. M. M. Prasanna. However, her complaint and visit to the SP have been in vain.
  
  SANGRAM the organisation that runs the Maharashtra State AIDS Society HIV/AIDS prevention project with women in sex work and sexual minorities in Satara District also sent a written complaint to Home Minister R.R.Patil, DSP Prasanna, Satara and Regional DIG Tukaram Chavhan, demanding that action be taken against Dayanad Dhome and others, but to no avail. DSP Prasanna told a delegation from VAMP on 30/04/2012 that an enquiry is instituted but would not commit as to when we can expect a result.
  
  Anu and Anjana are are asking for justice and their right to get a hearing. Anu feels that the miscarriage due to severe beating and the subsequent trauma are not taken seriously because she is a sex worker. In fact, the police had the audacity to tell these women that sex workers cannot be mothers.
  
  We Demand
  
  1. The Inquiry in the case be expedited and the report be made public
  
  2. Inspector Dayanand Dhome be suspended with immediate effect.
  
  3. A Grievance committee be set up by the Maharashtra Government, which includes members from the field of sex work, women rights, police, law, so that such incidents are not repeated and they get speedy justice.
  
  4. The Maharashtra Government which runs the HIV/AIDS programmes with sex workers have a policy on Police violence against sex workers male/female and transgender.
  
  yours sincerely
  
  [Your name]

On-line die Petition unterschreiben

www.change.org/petitions/justice-for-anu-mokal






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"The violence of stigma we dare to survive
Of dignity we dare to dream"

March led by children of sex workers to protest police violence against sex workers to highlight the case of Anu Mokai. In Satara, India.

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Erstmals ein Rundbrief einer indischen Sexworker-Organisation. Und zwar der größten Sexworker-Union und Hilfsverein der Welt mit ca. 40.000-65.000 organisiserten Sexworkern in Bengalen, Ost-Indien (s.o. 20 Jahre Durbar, die Unwiderstehlichen).

Aktueller DURBAR-Rundbrief:
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin14.pdf

Und die anderen stehen auch im Netz:

www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin13.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin12.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin11.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin10.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin9.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin8.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin7.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin6.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin5.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin4.pdf
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin3.pdf 25th June 2011
www.durbar.org/html/Bulletin%20No2k.doc 2
www.durbar.org/html/usa-2011.pdf 1


Es ist schon ein starkes Stück, dass kein deutscher pro Sexworker-Hilfsverein oder der Dachverband www.bufas.net es nicht schaffen einen Rundbrief auf die Beine zu stellen. (Nur KOK und Solwodi schaffen es;-)





Übrigens, Durbar veranstaltet das kommende Welt-Sexworker-Treffen in Kalkutta parallel zur Welt-AIDS-Konferenz in Washington. Die Nachfolgeveranstaltung unserer Konferenz in Wien mit sexworker.at-Beteiligung.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Rhk-t0LJ4[/youtube]


Leider habe ich noch von keinem Sexworker aus dem Forum oder in A - CH - D - Sexworker.at-Land gehört der hinfährt...

Für mobile Reise-Escorts die ideale Gelegenheit Kontakte, Kolleg_innen und Freunde auf der ganzen Welt zu finden und viele Trix aus der Welt der Sexarbeit zu erfahren...


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