Nagpur: Support flows for female sex workers (FSWS) Ganga Jamuna from international activists, feminists and scholars in the form of online signature campaigns.
They have expressed concern for the seizure of livelihoods facing women and their families since August 11.
The campaign was initiated by the national network of sex workers (NNSW), umbrella organizations from various NGOs and community-based organizations, received support of around 3,000 Handa, which included researchers from the UK.
One of them comes from the prestigious Essex University.
The collective English prostitute from the UK and a research scholar from Utrecht University in the Netherlands is also among the rites.
Sex workers from other states are too extended their support through a signature campaign.
Meena Seshu, representing sex workers and allies of South Asia (Swasa), said the campaign received impromptu support from various corners of the world and the country.
He has written in a signature campaign that ‘cannot be believed that Maharashtra police are so blind to the government’s policy to recognize’ Veshya Vyavasayay ‘and provide monetary assistance to sex workers as part of Covid-19 themselves’.
One of the sex workers from Sangli, Kiran Deshmukh, who is part of the NNSW, said Ganga Jamuna’s sex worker has passed 10 points resolution from not supporting minors who work in a brothel and will not ask for a road, among others.
“We have decided to remind the police about underage children involved as sex workers in a brothel here and will stand on the doors of our house to ask customers, but do not go on the road.
The resolution was handed over to the Lakadganj police,” he said, “he said,” he said, “he said,” he said While adding that sex workers will continue to mess with peace.
Amitesh Kumar City Police Commissioner said he welcomed the resolution did not allow children underage and also refrained from asking for on the road.
“I asked the question of the resolution of why it was silent on the aspect of the existence and illegal brothel operations according to the law.
Let sex workers survive in a brothel now,” he said.
City police, who forced stopping prostitution here and also published a visitor’s entry to a brothel, is now set to issue fresh notifications related to Ganges Jamuna under Section 7 (1) (b) Immal Trade Act (ITPA)), 1956 .
this notice will declare Ganga Jamuna as ‘public’ within a radius of educational institutions, offices MSEDCL, several religious structures, schools and hospitals, where prostitution would be illegal under the law.
In the past, Kumar also issued a notice based on part 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CRPC) which forbid outsiders to visit the Jamuna Ganga line to access the brothel.