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  • Writer's pictureLisa Ja'afar

3rd of March 2019, It's the Sex Workers' Rights Day.

Updated: Apr 19, 2019


 

Throughout, every entire part of the global world, whereby every individual sex worker, sex worker activist/human right defender, group or association, NGO and allied, are coming hand in hand to renewed towards the global sex worker underlying solidarity alliance pledge. That encourage to stand together by unifying as one collective voices that urge to demand each of their State country government accountability full participation in fulfilling to fully respect, protect, promote towards an individual sex worker inherent dignity rights accession in achieving for their gender-equality social inclusion rights to be protected under State equal and fair legal law protection, whereby, in ensuring that sex work shall be recognize as part of an enabling decent work, by attaining the agency rights to State country social security and labor law protection.


The global day of action of the International Sex Workers' Rights Day, is to commemorate and marked upon the originate beginning towards the early establishment of the global campaign action of sex workers rights collective movement. In signified upon the remembrance, collective union effort displayed by the diverse individual of 25, 000 sex worker community, who had come from all part of the state country to join and gather for a sex work festival in India, that was to be hosted and organised in 2001, by the sex worker movement known as Durbar Mahila Samanwayan Committee. However, the town mayor of Calcutta, India had deliberately revoked the official town permits through the town mayor last minute attempt to stop the movement from organizing the sex work festival even though they have obtain for the official town permits beforehand, and was initially given the green light to organised the sex work festival.

 


 

Thus, for past 18 years, ever-since the first beginning towards the establishment of the global sex worker march campaign action that generate to encourage other global sex worker community-led movement, to coordinate in developing for each of their own sphere sex worker campaign action.That engage by promoting for the full recognition rights to sex work without being subjected under any form of State country national domestic quasi-legislative sex work administrative criminalizing law policies. Based directly upon each State country, discrepancy and discreet subjugation in promulgating national domestic sex work administrative policies, that underscores to further penalized against any individual person who engage or providing any form of sex work related consensual activity prompted majority of the national domestic social welfare community service to closed on any doors by disengaging not to deliver State absolute reparation remedies that enabling for any individual sex workers person to render out for the national domestic alternative resource to assist them during their dire state of emergency.



Subsequently, rights back home the majority fate of Singapore diverse gender and nationality sex worker community are not less exempted from enduring or incriminated with the myriad similarities form of human rights violations compounded daily among an individual sex worker's privacy livelihood and lifestyle, especially among the diverse gender undocumented migrant sex worker community. Attributed and supported directly from State subjugation to promulgate by undertaking to introduce and utilizing with the pragmatic approach of the two-tier stance of a"Par-Se"sex work administrative legislative policy, that engaged not to criminalize solely on 'Prostitution' however other related consensual sex work activity are penalize.


Based from the national domestic discrepancy and discreet sex work administrative policy, indirectly or directly promoted by providing the local social security such as the law enforcement and vice-related officer with the impunity power, to propagate for the social security effective attempt in reducing, against any form of the national domestic vice-related sexual activity. By cited to justifying upon the national domestic social security high level rate in coordinating the weekly or monthly island-wide vices-related sexual raids, that constantly targeted directly around the massage parlor, karaoke night-club, housing estate and budget hotels to incited and polarized as part the social security law enforcement effective and efficient effort to prevent against any form of the high-level international organised crime of human or sex trafficking to be conducted or based within the small-city state island country.



 


 

However, during the international convention of the 68th CEDAW Session, Singapore State government was ask to respond or provide for the national domestic gender-specific sex dis-aggregated data-static number of an individual undocumented migrant cs-gender sex worker who are apprehended for the vices-related sexual activities criminal offences including to breach against the national domestic immigration act by engaging to provide sex work while only holding a social visit pass;

  • Prevention of Human Trafficking Act. The Prevention of Human Trafficking Act (PHTA) is Singapore’s primary legislation against trafficking in persons (TIP). Since it came into force in March 2015 to 31 May 2017, there have been 8 cases brought under the PHTA for sex and labour trafficking. (CEDAW/C/SGP/Q/5/Add.1 page 3 / 20 (p.D) 2017)

  • The PHTA came into effect in March 2015. The PHTA has put in place a dedicated regime to protect and support trafficked victims, as well as to encourage the reporting of offences relating to TIP. There are also protection measures in place under various other legislation, including the Penal Code, the Women’s Charter and the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act. The Government is aware of the plight and anxieties of these victims. We do not prosecute such victims for acts which they are compelled to commit as a direct consequence of being trafficked victims unless there are compelling factors. The Singapore Inter-Agency Task-force for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) also funds shelters that offer protection for trafficked victims, including accommodation, medical care and counselling and translation services. For trafficked victims who wish to return home, Singapore will facilitate their return. The Task-force also provides a range of additional support measures, customized to the victims’ needs. For example, where possible, we facilitate the placement of victims who are willing and able to work, in suitable employment in Singapore. This allows them to remain gainfully employed and maintain an income. (CEDAW/C/SGP/Q/5/Add.1 page 5/20 (p.16) 2017)



The direct public statement delivered by the representatives delegate of Singapore State government, submitted as the State country in response towards CEDAW Committee Member, are documented and produce only after the representative State delegates had fully obtained for the finalize verification towards the national domestic data-sharing statics report. Whereby, a full published public statement of the national community substantive community report are accessible directly through the United Nation available online official website archives data-sharing files, in allowing for future or current community report validation work references capacity building engagement. By engaging to fully provide and disseminated upon each State country specific transcript archive data-sharing documentation report, to displayed upon the direct substantive question posted by each of the CEDAW Committee Member to further evaluate upon each State country full participation in respecting, protect, promote and fulfill to implement and practices in accordance with the universal rights-based approach of gender-equality principles.


The adequate and accessible archive collated data-sharing platform, provided through the United Nation official online website page is also to further dis-encourage against any State country or the State government themselves from distributing or even to release any of their national domestic public statement that is contradictory from the initial facts documentation provided by each of State government during any of the United Nation sub-bodies convention. Subsequently, it's also to explicitly remind upon State government underlying accountable responsibilities obligation roles duty, in promoting for each State country full participation to fully developed within the national domestic multi-dimensional social infrastructural in providing for the alternative reparation remedies that integrated fully by adopted with the United Nation Joint-Collaboration Task Force System, which harmonize and to be in-aligned with the universal legal framework perspectives of Human Rights mechanism.




 

The lack and limited understanding of Singapore government upon the urgency need to fully respects, fulfill and promote for the Convention temporary measures, engages to clearly signified upon State government including the appointed inter-ministries department that undertake the role to overseen and fully promote on State people fundamental liberties inherent dignity rights to human rights continues to disengaged or deprived the national most disadvantaged and vulnerable key population group of community such as the undocumented local and migrant cis-gender sex worker community from accessing their rights to State country social security equal and fair legal law protection.


Directly imposed State government with the absolute accountable responsible duty, to fully engage in respect, protect, fulfill, and promotes to deliver upon State undertaken high-level promises made during State government international cooperation full participation at the 68th CEDAW Convention session. In ensuring that the national domestic judicial legal systems as well as the internal and external social infrastructural human systems are fully committed to developed for State international cooperation obligation duty by developing to fully delivered State impartial humanitarian reparation collective action that disengage from promoting or supporting in silent to any diversion repression act of gender-specific discriminatory, denigrate and demoralize attributes displayed by majority of the national domestic front-line social services and healthcare staff.


Moreover, with the lack of having a strong and consistency reparation remedies to be fully recognize and provided by the national domestic inter-ministerial appointed human rights committee. Inviolability generate to provide the direct platform engagement for the national domestic sub-government newspaper corporate company of Singapore Press Holding (SPH), to be awarded with the impunity power to tag along during any of Singapore Police Force (SPF) vice-related ambush raids activity, including during or are in the midst of police investigation procedure.




By granting the local reporter or journalist with the available platform avenue, further fuels to instigated in propagating the widely-spread of misinterpreted vice-related sexual activity to be distributed as part of the national news article. Notably, to be fully aware upon the national domestic crime-free criminology situation, prompted majority of the local reporter or journalist of having or faced with the limited job opportunity to cover or reporting for a high-level crime-related article news. Generally, with the sudden Dopamine flush, inherit by an individual journalist or reporter for being awarded with the opportunity to tag along during any of the vice-related sexual raids activity conducted by the local law enforcement, indirectly or directly allowed for any local journalist to even disengaged themselves from respecting their own journalist work ethic principles in covering or writing for any vice-related sexual activities informative news articles.


Either to sincerely had overlooked upon an individual person constitutional fundamental liberties inherent dignity rights or basically are playing or engaging with total ignorance, by undertaking to fully ignore upon the fundamental liberties rights entailed for an individual person that are presume innocent until they are proven to be found guilty, only through an impartial and competent judgement of the national appointed court. These inherent dignity rights of an individual person, shall be fully recognized and respected even whilst under the full process of assisting or subjected under the police investigation, whereby the impunity power awarded to any individual local law officer to mitigate for applying through their own decision-making to automatically strip off immediately upon an individual person from earning his/her CONSTITUTIONAL FUNDAMENTAL LIBERTIES RIGHTS to be fully respected and protected by not having any third party interference during the police investigation process even though to justified that the journalist or reporter are basically covering some local news update.

 




Thus, this will be the right moment to further provide and share among the diverse local readers, with the brief history upon how and when does the terminology terms of sex work and sex worker was coined, and since when had the terminology term are widely spread to be legally introduced in replacing against the word 'Prostitution' and 'Prostitute', that are officially been used throughout the United Nation sub-bodies human systems, even are recognized legally in most of the UN human systems legal treaties or documentation;


  • INTRODUCTION - SEX WORK: The terms sex work was originated as early as 1971 coincidentally is listed in the 1971 edition of the Oxford English Dictionaries, was reintroduced by Carol Leigh, by proposing the term of "sex work industry' in replacing for the initial term of 'sex use industry', That had recommended and reintroduced the term 'sex work industry' during one of the conferences that she had attended in 1979 - 1980 where she found the banner title "sex use industry' was inappropriate and embarrassed.

  • BRIEF SUMMARY - SEX WORK: The definition of sex work, identifies or describes upon the job position or status of the job-specific that individual personal preference. Sex work first and foremost, that people need to fully understand and be notably well-informed, is an income-generating of decent* work activity encompasses diverse workplace, including providing with the flexibility work hours and date of work, having the ultimate capability of total empowerment to enhance our negotiating agency skills such as to reject rowdy and aggressive client;

  • INTRODUCTION - SEX WORKER: The terminology of a sex worker term are too disengaged from the denigrate as well as the long patriarchy idealism of gender-specific stigmatization associated with the word of 'Prostitute or Prostitution'. Sex worker is to identify individual women, men, and trans*person who opted to choose or enter into the sex work industry through their own consent of choices of their agency decision, independently without engaging with any third party repression against any act of coercion, manipulated and exploited

  • BRIEF SUMMARY - SEX WORKER: The majority of global sex worker community resonate well with the term of a sex worker, as the term clearly defined an in-depth structure component that identifies an individual person regardless upon their gender-specific identity, age-level, religious and nationalities the terms allow all global sex workers to enhance their unique subculture identity that encourages and provide for the collective platform capacity building engagement that promotes every sex worker to be united through their regional and international solidarity support campaign action.

Before we end our sex work blog post, we will like to specifically emphasize as well as to fully encourage among the local diversity social societal community, including any individual person who might develop or possess with the underlying interest or simply trying to engage as part of Singapore cohesive and inclusive bicentennial community, that promotes for the "new normal norms" community collective development support.


That the transition journey in enabling for an individual person to fully provide their collective community development support is to inherent with the rights internationalization envisioned goals mission in creating to be the change-maker champion. By not resorting to simply engage in focusing on lending the helping hand only within the sphere group of community you tend to cherry-picked or even perceives upon which community deserve to rendered out for receiving any of the community helping hand collective support.


Whereby the actual facts reality, the nation underrepresented and most disadvantaged group of women and girls including other key population community, are still left behind without access to any of the national full recognition to access for the national domestics reparation remedies collective support community development in delivery for the specific gender-awareness desensitization key essential outreach program or services.


Such as to established and integrate in addressing and identifying the Singapore group of sex workers community through the universal new normal norms typology term in referring individual person who provides or opted to engage in consensual sex-related activity, to be address as sex workers. Whereby, sex work should be fully recognized and promote as part of the socio-economic income-generating activity, that enabling for an individual person to enhance his/her own self-reliance meritocratic initiative effort to sustain upon their daily and immediate necessities needs.

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