Sex Workers, NHRC and Pandemic
Topic: Adverse effect of NHRC guideline on Sex workers in this Pandemic/ vulnerability of Sex workers in this covid pandemic. C ommercial sex and sex workers in India are guided under the regulation of Immoral Traffic (prevention) act 1956 these days the Advisory released by NHRC is heated debate over the rights of sex workers and immorality of commercial sex. Under the advisory of NHRC, sex workers included in informal sector. This advisory is taken to tackle the effect of pandemic on sex workers and accessibility of benefits given to them by government, but the question arises to recognize commercial sex as a work, this will never help to reduce the human and sex trafficking. Most of the women in the sexual work are not coming voluntary, they forced to do so, forced by relatives and family, forced by vulnerability, forced by society (Non-acceptable in society), and now this advisory as a recognizing sex as a work gives power to these forces and worsen the situat...