{"id":1185,"date":"2006-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/2006\/08\/20\/news_item-2006-08-21-3508\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:38:52","slug":"news_item-2006-08-21-3508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/news_item-2006-08-21-3508\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex Workers\u2019 Rights: Time to Deliver!  SEX WORKERS\u2019 DEMONSTRATION at XVI AIDS Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <span>Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 at 10 AM, The Stilletto Lounge Sex Workers&rsquo; Networking Zone in the Global Village, Toronto International AIDS Conference 2006<\/span>                            <\/p>\n<p>Sex workers from around the world will demonstrate for the recognition of their human rights and labour rights in order to fight HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Thiboutot, director of Stella, Montreal&rsquo;s by-and-for sex worker groups says: &ldquo;We are strong, proud and united in the struggle against HIV! We, sex workers, demand our human rights and workers&rsquo; rights in order to fight HIV.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to Awa Dambele of Danyana So, an association of 2000 sex workers in five cities in Mali : &ldquo;Accept the rights of sex workers. Society must accept us.  Women have a right to their work. We demand access to free condoms to protect our health. &rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gabriela Leite of sex worker group Davida and the Brazilian Prostitutes&rsquo; Network adds : &ldquo;We demand the recognition of our labour rights as sex workers  and that sex work be decriminalized in all countries. &rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thai sex worker group Empower says: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not what we do&hellip;it&rsquo;s how we do it. Safe, fair working conditions save lives. The power we share, the power we have! &rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;Contact for more information :Anna-Louise Crago, Communications coordinator Stella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 at 10 AM, The Stilletto Lounge Sex Workers&rsquo; Networking Zone in the Global Village, Toronto International AIDS Conference 2006 Sex workers from around the world will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","pmpro_default_level":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-release","category-news","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4420,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/4420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}