Länderberichte AFRIKA:

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Afrika





Links:

Sex Work Education and Advocacy Taskforce:
http://www.sweat.org.za





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Sicherheitstipps gegen Gewalt

Tipps zum Sicherheitsmanagement für SW aus Süd-Afrika


Wissenswertes aus den Hafenvierteln in Kapstadt und Durban.

SW, die für/mit Seeleuten arbeiten, leben wesentlich sicherer als Kolleginnen auf der Straße oder in manchen Bordellen.

Eine wissenschaftliche Studie von Henry Trotter (Historiker Yale).



Es werden strukturelle Faktoren für Sicherheit der Sexarbeit untersucht bezüglich Kunden, Polizei und Umfeld...

Faktoren:
- the social and legal status of the client
- the location of negotiation
- the location of the sexual act
- the level of discretion in the solicitation process
- and the role of third-party involvement

In a recent paper in Sexuality Research and Social Policy he examines the
determinants of violence within different sectors of the S African sex trade,
and perhaps not surprisingly, found that the level of violence varied widely
and that structural factors, especially those involving power, control and
inequality were the major factors.

How to manipulate those structural inequalities to optimise control and negate
inequality for sex workers within the overarching legal and social framework is
of course much more challenging. [M.G.]





Homepage:

http://www.sugargirlsandseamen.com/2007 ... -risk.html



Bericht:

http://www.henrytrotter.com/publication ... g-risk.pdf
(PDF - 11 Seiten)

Trotter, Henry, "Navigating Risk: Lessons From the Dockside Sex Trade for Reducing Violence in South Africa's Prostitution Industry" Sexuality Research & Social Policy: Journal of NSRC Vol. 4, No. 4 (Dec 2007), pp. 106-119.





Studie "SW und Polizei in Südafrika"
Institute for Security Studies (ISS):
viewtopic.php?p=39297#39297





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Freier-Kriminalisierung auch in Südafrika:

South Africa?s Sexual Offences Act

came into force on December 16th,

criminalising the purchase of sex,

pre-empting their own Law Reform Commission.



The general tenor is that sex is violence against women.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 ... 829C607947





Clients will find themselves in court alongside the prostitutes they pay for sex, when the new Sexual Offences Amendment Act comes into effect on Sunday.

The new Act has been hailed for its stance on rape and sexual assault, but the consequences for sex workers will be devastating as their "Johns" also face arrest.

Justice spokesperson Zolile Nqayi confirmed on Friday that paying for sex would be illegal from tomorrow under the new law.

Ngayi said the Law Reform Commission was doing extensive work on prostitution, but he could not say when it would make recommendations. The Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) has slammed the government for not taking sex workers into consideration before passing the legislation.

'Acceptance of violence against sex workers is acceptance of violence against women'

Sweat's director Eric Harper said: "It is particularly saddening and ironic that this Act comes into effect just after the 16 days of campaigning to stop violence against women. This new law further stigmatises and isolates sex workers and will increase the levels of violence.

"Our concern is that criminalisation of the client and sex work further drives sex work underground and makes access to legal protection more difficult. The sex worker becomes a legitimate target and stereotype around which people can unite in their condemnation and feel justified in the expression of hatred.

"We cannot accept a situation where certain groups are excluded and their rights deemed not to matter. Acceptance of violence against sex workers is acceptance of violence against women."

Harper said the old law had never dealt with prostitution. "There was a discussion paper and report released by the Law Reform Commission, followed by extensive public participation before the parliamentary portfolio committee. The recommendations were simply ignored, making a mockery of the process of consultation.

"At no stage were issues pertaining to sex work deliberated on, nor was there any form of open debate on this issue. It is completely irregular for this provision to have been inserted at such a late stage without any regard for due process whatsoever."

The wide-ranging act has tough new laws against sexual abuse. The Justice Ministry said yesterday that the Sexual Offences Amendment Act would help the country "fight the scourge of sexual offences head-on" and would give greater protection to victims of sexual crimes. For the first time, victims will be able to go to court to force their attackers to take Aids tests.

Around 5,4-million South Africans are infected with HIV - the highest number of any country in the world. More than 50 000 rape cases were reported last year, almost 150 a day.

Based on reported cases alone, SA has 114 rapes per 100 000 people, compared with a rate of 32 rapes per 100 000 in the US, according to police figures.

Women's rights groups estimate that only one in nine rapes were reported to police. Until now the definition of rape has been narrow.

Attacks on children, for instance, were often classified as indecent assault, not rape.

The new law says that sexual penetration by objects other than a penis would be classed as rape - which usually is punished with a life sentence - rather than sexual assault, for which there are lesser sentences.

For the first time, male-on-male sexual assault is classed as rape.

The new law introduces tougher measures to protect children and the mentally disabled from sexual exploitation and child pornography. It will also set up a register of sexual offenders so schools and other institutions dealing with children could vet candidates for jobs.

The revised legislation said all victims should get free medication to reduce the risks of contracting the virus.

Given the delay in HIV infection showing up in tests, many women currently face weeks of agonised uncertainty over whether their attacker carried the deadly virus.





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists


Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:28am EST

By Jeremy Clarke

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Bethan, 56, lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie, 64.

They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is "just full of big young boys who like us older girls."

Hard figures are difficult to come by, but local people on the coast estimate that as many as one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex.

Allie and Bethan -- who both declined to give their full names -- said they planned to spend a whole month touring Kenya's palm-fringed beaches. They would do well to avoid the country's tourism officials.

"It's not evil," said Jake Grieves-Cook, chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board, when asked about the practice of older rich women traveling for sex with young Kenyan men.

"But it's certainly something we frown upon [mißbilligen]."

Also, the health risks are stark in a country with an AIDS prevalence of 6.9 percent. Although condom use can only be guessed at, Julia Davidson, an academic at Nottingham University who writes on sex tourism, said that in the course of her research she had met women who shunned condoms -- finding them too "businesslike" for their exotic fantasies.


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The white beaches of the Indian Ocean coast stretched before the friends as they both walked arm-in-arm with young African men, Allie resting her white haired-head on the shoulder of her companion, a six-foot-four 23-year-old from the Maasai tribe.

He wore new sunglasses he said were a gift from her.

"We both get something we want -- where's the negative?" Allie asked in a bar later, nursing a strong, golden cocktail.

She was still wearing her bikini top, having just pulled on a pair of jeans and a necklace of traditional African beads.

Bethan sipped the same local drink: a powerful mix of honey, fresh limes and vodka known locally as "Dawa," or "medicine."

She kept one eye on her date -- a 20-year-old playing pool, a red bandana tying back dreadlocks and new-looking sports shoes on his feet.

He looked up and came to join her at the table, kissing her, then collecting more coins for the pool game.



"JUST UNWHOLESOME"

Grieves-Cook and many hotel managers say they are doing all they can to discourage the practice of older women picking up local boys, arguing it is far from the type of tourism they want to encourage in the east African nation.

"The head of a local hoteliers' association told me they have begun taking measures -- like refusing guests who want to change from a single to a double room," Grieves-Cook said.

"It's about trying to make those guests feel as uncomfortable as possible ... But it's a fine line. We are 100 percent against anything illegal, such as prostitution. But it's different with something like this -- it's just unwholesome."

These same beaches have long been notorious for attracting another type of sex tourists -- those who abuse children.

As many as 15,000 girls in four coastal districts -- about a third of all 12-18 year-olds girls there -- are involved in casual sex for cash, a joint study by Kenya's government and U.N. children's charity UNICEF reported late last year.

Up to 3,000 more girls and boys are in full-time sex work, it said, some paid for the "most horrific and abnormal acts."



"PREYING ON POVERTY?"

Emerging alongside this black market trade -- and obvious in the bars and on the sand once the sun goes down -- are thousands of elderly white women hoping for romantic, and legal, encounters with much younger Kenyan men.

They go dining at fine restaurants, then dancing, and back to expensive hotel rooms overlooking the coast.

"One type of sex tourist attracted the other," said one manager at a shorefront bar on Mombasa's Bamburi beach.

"Old white guys have always come for the younger girls and boys, preying on their poverty ... But these old women followed ... they never push the legal age limits, they seem happy just doing what is sneered at [bespottet] in their countries."

Experts say some thrive on the social status and financial power that comes from taking much poorer, younger lovers.

"This is what is sold to tourists by tourism companies -- a kind of return to a colonial past, where white women are served, serviced, and pampered by black minions," said Nottinghan University's Davidson.



"LIVE LIKE THE RICH"

Many of the visitors are on the lookout for men like Joseph.

Flashing a dazzling smile and built like an Olympic basketball star, the 22-year-old said he has slept with more than 100 white women, most of them 30 years his senior.

"When I go into the clubs, those are the only women I look for now," he told Reuters. "I get to live like the rich mzungus (white people) who come here from rich countries, staying in the best hotels and just having my fun."

At one club, a group of about 25 dancing men -- most of them Joseph look-alikes -- edge closer and closer to a crowd of more than a dozen white women, all in their autumn years.

"It's not love, obviously. I didn't come here looking for a husband," Bethan said over a pounding beat from the speakers.

"It's a social arrangement. I buy him a nice shirt and we go out for dinner. For as long as he stays with me he doesn't pay for anything, and I get what I want -- a good time. How is that different from a man buying a young girl dinner?"



http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/ ... 26?sp=true
(Editing by Daniel Wallis and Sara Ledwith)


Mehr ...
- http://sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=23902#23902

- http://sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=27906#27906





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Elendsbericht aus einem Sexworker-Hostel in Makindye, Vorort von Kampala am Viktoriasee, Uganda

http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/ ... 40020.html

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=de&s ... 1&t=h&z=18

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





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Assistance for Minors Rescued from Sexual Exploitation

Posted on Friday, 25-01-2008

Ghana - IOM has been asked to lend support to the Ghanaian government in providing care and assistance to a group of minors rescued from a brothel in Ghana on 19th January following a police raid.

More than 160 women and girls were taken to an initial shelter for preliminary screening following the raid on the eve of the African Cup of Nations tournament being hosted by Ghana. Some of the women and girls were pregnant and others had babies.

The majority of those interviewed were adults who were not identified as victims of trafficking and were released by the police following registration by the Department of Social Welfare in collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs and other government authorities.

However, 14 girls under the age of 18 and four babies are now receiving comprehensive care and rehabilitation assistance including food, clothing, counselling, medical screening and treatment as well as recreational activities at another shelter.

A medical team will carry out detailed medical screenings at the weekend in order to define a comprehensive treatment for the girls and babies.

Although it is not yet clear how the girls had ended up in the brothel, most of the women and girls registered from the raid had come to Accra from various regions in Ghana with their brothers, sisters, uncles, or other relatives in order to engage in petty trading, learn a trade, attend school, or seek new opportunities. Some said they had come to stay with their uncles, but had left because they were being maltreated.

The operation – the largest ever carried out in Ghana to protect potential victims of human trafficking – was undertaken by the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service in close collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs. The Ministry has been mandated by the 2005 Ghana Human Trafficking Act to coordinate all efforts among national taskforce members to prevent and combat human trafficking in Ghana, including protecting child victims who have been trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation.

Following the signing of a tripartite agreement with the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs and the Department of Social Welfare, IOM is providing financial and technical assistance to help support the rehabilitation of the girls and babies at the centre through IOM's Global Assistance Fund for trafficking victims, an emergency fund made available by the US Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM).

For further information, please contact:

Jo Rispoli
IOM Accra
Tel: (233) 21-508-698/9 or 21-518-413/4
E-mail: jrispoli@iom.int

http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/pbnAF/ca ... ryId=16451





Mehr zu PRostitution und Großereignissen wie WM06, EM08:
viewtopic.php?t=388





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Dokufilm über Selbstbehauptung in ausbeuterischen Strukturen.


Jungleworld: Punch statt Prostitution

Im Berlinale-Film »Victoire Terminus« geht es um das Boxen als ein Mittel für kongolesische Frauen, um im Überlebenskampf fit zu bleiben.

von elke wittich und axel grumbach

Die heruntergekommenen Straßen Kinshasas, durch die eine kongolesische Amateurboxerin in der Eröffnungsszene von »Victoire Terminus«, einem Forums-Beitrag der diesjährigen Berlinale, läuft, sind dem aufmerksamen Kinozuschauer durchaus bekannt: Michael Manns Film »Ali« begann mit Aufnahmen von Muhammad Ali auf denselben Straßen.

Ali war im Jahr 1974 in den Kongo, der damals noch Zaire hieß, gereist, um den weltweit ersten Profikampf im Schwergewicht auf afrikanischem Boden auszutragen. Der unter dem Titel »Rumble in the Jungle« bekannt gewordene Fight gegen George Foreman war die erste große Veranstaltung unter der Regie des noch heute als Boxpromoter aktiven Don King, über den Kampf entstanden zahlreiche Bücher, Filme und sogar Songs, wie der Siebziger-Jahre-Hit von Johnny Wakelin, »In Zaire«, während der Ort, an dem Ali Foreman schlug, langsam in Vergessenheit geriet.

Die französischen Filmemacher Renaud Barret und Florent de La Tullaye reisten im Jahr 2004 zum ersten Mal nach Kinshasa, um einen Dokumentarfilm über Straßenmusiker zu drehen. Zwei Jahre lang lebten sie im Ghetto der Stadt und erlebten die Probleme des Landes haut­nah mit. Polizisten und Geheimdienstmitarbeiter erhalten beispielsweise schon seit Jahren keine Gehälter mehr und haben mafiöse Strukturen errichtet, um die Bevölkerung zu erpressen, wie Barret erzählt. »Das ganze Land lebt damit, und so muss man das dann eben akzeptieren und auch damit leben – oder den Kongo gleich verlassen.« Gleichzeitig stellten die beiden Franzosen immer wieder fest, dass der legendäre Boxkampf bei den Kongolesen immer noch unvergessen ist und dass sie immer noch sehr stolz auf dieses Ereignis sind. »Es handelte sich wohl um den einzigen Zeitpunkt, an dem etwas Positives in dem Land geschah«, erklärt Renaud Barret, »ansonsten sprechen die Menschen über Krieg, Armut, Korruption und Tod. Der Fight und das Stadion sind dagegen so etwas wie das einzige afrikanische Monument mit einem guten Image.«

Das Stade 20 Mai, in dem Ali von den einheimischen Zuschauern mit dem Schlachtruf »Ali bomaye!« (Ali, bring ihn um) angefeuert wurde, existiert noch, wenn es auch mittlerweile ziemlich marode ist.

In den Katakomben des heute Stade Tata Raphaël heißenden Stadions befindet sich ein Box-Gym, in dem Coach Judex Tshibanda Wata den Ton angibt. Nachdem er den Kampf Alis gegen Foreman live im Stadion verfolgt hatte, habe für ihn festgestanden, dass er auch Boxer werden wolle, erzählt Wata. Nun gibt er sein Wissen an die jüngere Generation weiter und trainiert eine kleine Gruppe boxbegeisterter Frauen.

Unter widrigen Umständen: Schon für männliche Boxer ist es so gut wie unmöglich, ihren Sport geregelt auszuüben, denn es gibt keinerlei Infrastruktur. Der Verband existiert schon seit Jahren nicht mehr, entsprechend fehlen Ligen, Meisterschaften und Preisgeld. Kämpfe werden von den Trainern angesetzt, die mit allen möglichen Mitteln versuchen, den Boxern wenigstens ein paar Dollar Antrittsprämie zu verschaffen.

Wata macht da keine Ausnahme: Er bestiehlt Marktfrauen, um Kämpfe ansetzen zu können, und überredet den örtlichen Milchmann, die Fights zu sponsern.

Für die Boxerinnen bleibt von den zusammengekommenen 250 Dollar allerdings jeweils gerade ein Dollar übrig, denn Schiedsrichter bekommen aus unerfindlichen Gründen für ihren Einsatz mehr als das Zehnfache als die Kämpfer, deren Aktionen sie zu bewerten haben.

Leben können die porträtierten Boxerinnen von ihrem Sport dementsprechend nicht, gleichwohl finden die meisten, dass Boxen eine echte Alternative zur Prostitution sei. »Ich boxe, weil ich nicht wie die anderen Frauen rumhuren mag«, sagt eine von ihnen. Fitsein für den Überlebenskampf ist das Hauptmotiv für das harte Training, das sich die Boxerinnen neben der täglichen Arbeit antun. Wer gut in Form ist, hat nicht nur im Ring gute Chancen, sondern erträgt auch das Aufstehen früh um 5 Uhr und die folgenden langen Stunden Arbeit auf dem schmutzigen Wochenmarkt besser. Die zwischen 18 und 24 Jahre alten Boxerinnen arbeiten hart, um ihre Familien durchzubringen – viele sind schon im Alter von zwölf Jahren zum ersten Mal schwanger geworden und müssen vier oder mehr Kinder ernähren. Ihre Männer sitzen dagegen meist zu Hause und tun nichts.

Die im Training erworbene Fähigkeit zum harten Punch dafür einzusetzen, diese häusliche Misere zu verbessern oder sich gar gegen ihre prügelnden Männer oder Lebensgefährten zu wehren, kommt den Boxerinnen dabei jedoch nicht in den Sinn. »Wir dachten erst, dass wir einen feministischen Film machen würden, denn das ist ja das, was man gemeinhin von einem Film über boxende Frauen erwartet«, sagte Barret nach der Aufführung von »Victoire Terminus« auf der Berlinale. »Aber genau das ist es nicht geworden, und so zeigen wir diese Frauen auch einfach nur so, wie sie sind.«

Die Bantu-Gesellschaft sei bis zum heutigen Tag von Männern dominiert, Gleichberechtigung für die Masse der Frauen kein Thema. Sich zu wehren, sei für sie nur dann legitim, wenn eine Vergewaltigung drohe, »wenn sie dagegen von ihren Männern verprügelt werden, sagen sie nichts oder entschuldigen sie sogar damit, dass dies nur daran liege, dass sie keine Arbeit haben«.

Hoffnungen darauf, dass sich ihre elende Lage durch politische Änderungen verbessert, haben weder die Boxerinnen noch ihr Trainer. Während der Dreharbeiten im Jahr 2006 wurde im Kongo gewählt, im Film sind Wahlkampfveranstaltungen und Kundgebungen dokumentiert. Nicht nur die Bilder von Leichen zeigen, wie verbissen der Wahlkampf zwischen den Kandidaten Kabila und Bemba geführt wurde. Die Lieder, die von ihren jeweiligen Unterstützern regelmäßig angestimmt werden, sind ebenfalls eindeutig: »Schlagt die Fremden tot«, heißt beispielsweise eines.

Die meisten der Wahlberechtigten, die im Film zu Wort kommen, haben allerdings schon vor der Stimmabgabe resigniert. Sie glaubten nicht an faire und freie Wahlen, sagen sie. Diese Szenen sind die schwächsten des gesamten Films, denn Zusammenhänge werden dem Zuschauer kaum erklärt. Warum solle sie wählen gehen, sagt auch eine der Boxerinnen, wer gewinne, sei doch vollkommen unerheblich: »Ein Verbrecher ersetzt den anderen.« Dies bleibt eines der wenigen politischen Statements der Protagonistinnen, die Filmemacher entschieden noch während der Dreharbeiten, die Frauen nicht in Gefahr zu bringen. »Sie reden eigentlich dauernd über Politik, aber wir haben entschieden, diese Szenen nicht im Film zu verwenden, und entsprechend viel geschnitten. Wir fühlten uns einfach in der Verantwortung« erklärten sie später.

Während draußen der Wahlkampf tobt, den am Ende Kabila gewinnen wird, bereiten sich die Frauen in den Katakomben des Stadions auf ihren großen Kampfabend vor. Von dem Geld, das die Siegerinnen bekommen werden, werden sie nicht einmal Medikamente für ihre kranken Kinder kaufen können.

Renaud Barrets Fazit fällt entsprechend drastisch aus: »Das Frauenboxen in Kinshasa hat einfach keine Zukunft.«

http://www.jungle-world.com/seiten/2008/08/11523.php





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Sambia

Sexskandal erschüttert Parlament

Die Abgeordneten in Sambia können sich mitunter in ein für sie reserviertes Hotel zurückziehen. Doch dahinter soll noch mehr stecken – ein Bordell.

Der Parlamentspräsident werde Vorwürfe untersuchen, wonach Abgeordnete sich in dem Hotel mit Prostituierten treffen, kündigte am Mittwoch ein Parlamentssprecher an. Munji Habeenzu von der oppositionellen Einheitspartei für nationale Entwicklung hatte zuvor den Vorwurf erhoben, das „Hotel für Parlamentsmitglieder“ sei zu einem Bordell verkommen und Prostitution sei dort weit verbreitet.

Habeenzu forderte in der Debatte über die durch Geschlechtsverkehr übertragbare Immunschwächekrankheit Aids seine Kollegen zudem auf, erst ihr Verhalten zu ändern, dann anderen Menschen Vorschriften zu machen. Die Äußerungen des Oppositionspolitikers riefen einen heftigen Streit hervor, der beinahe in einer Keilerei unter Beteiligung eines stellvertretenden Ministers endete. Frauenorganisationen kündigten für Donnerstag eine Demonstration nahe des Parlamentsgebäudes an.

löh/AFP
focus.de/politik/ausland/sambia_aid_267027.html

[ex-oberelfe]

Dear One and All,

FYI and find below a Press Release for the Human Rights Training for Sex
Workers in East Africa.

As some of you are aware by now, a training was banned by the Government
of Uganda's Minister of Ethics and Integrity on moral grounds although
the training subsequently was held in Kenya. The banning has since
sparked off a debate in the national, regional and international media
among human rights activists, practitioners and the general public.

Please circulate far and wide.
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For Immediate Release
Monday, March 31, 2008


Groups Meet to Improve Access to Health and Human Rights for East
African Sex Workers

KAMPALA Health and human rights groups from across Kenya and Uganda
announced today that they have successfully concluded a three-day
workshop addressing the health risks and abuses faced by sex workers in
the region. The groups say that sex workers are vulnerable to a wide
range of human rights abuses, often as a result of government practices,
which hinder their access to appropriate and quality health services.

The meeting brought 35 activists and experts from allied groups to Kenya
to discuss an evidence-based approach to health and human rights. The
meeting was organized by Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) in partnership with
the Open Society Initiative for East Africa (OSIEA) and the Open Society
Institute's Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP).

"It's time for dialogue and action on the violation of sex workers'
rights," said Solome Nakaweesi Kimbugwe, Executive Director of AMwA.
"Why are sex workers denied the rights that everyone else is enjoying?
Too often people with the least power and awareness of human rights are
most vulnerable to HIV and other abuses."

In East Africa, sex workers encounter high levels of physical violence,
including rape, from police and clients. They are also subject to
extortion and demands for bribes and sexual favors. Government agencies
regularly refuse to help sex workers who have been abused or whose
rights have been violated. These abuses, coupled with discrimination
from society in general, frequently force sex workers into hiding,
effectively blocking their access to the most basic health, justice, and
social care services.

The objective of the meeting was to discuss the difficult environment
sex workers face in East Africa, and to share information regarding
access to rights and safety. Such discussions are critical to reduce
risk for sexually transmitted diseases and to improve overall health and
wellbeing.

"What sex workers in East Africa need is protection not condemnation,"
said Anne Gathumbi of OSIEA.

The groups pointed to the strong objections lodged by some Ugandan
government officials against this meeting as an example of the
widespread lack of knowledge of international human rights standards.
Such objections also belie the policy commitments that governments have
made to respect human rights.

For more information, please contact Solome Nakaweesi-Kimbugwe of AMwA
(solome@amwa-ea.org) or Anne Gathumbi of OSIEA (agathumbi@osiea.org)
Kind Regards,
Solome.

Solome Nakaweesi-Kimbugwe
Executive Director
Akina Mama wa Afrika
Plot 30 Bukoto Street, Kampala
Uganda, East Africa

Tel: +256 41 543 681
Fax: +256 414 543 683
Mobile: +256 772 463 154
Email: solome@amwa-ea.org / amwa@amwa-ea.org
Skype: Solome750

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Prostitutionsgegnerin (Abolutionistin) freut sich darüber,
daß eine Sexworker-Konferenz abgesagt werden mußte.


All women should fight prostitution

BILD
Suspected sex workers leave for Luzira prison. Sex workers should be given a chance to change their lives

To suggest that those who are against sex work are mere moralists is wrong. Sex workers should stop selling their bodies and diversify into other trades.

Banks should give credit to sex workers who want to voluntarily leave “the oldest profession” [Um sie in die Zinsknechtschaft zu nehmen?]. Prostitution is a form of violence against women. There is absolutely nothing empowering about selling one’s body.

The recently cancelled sex workers conference that had been destined for Uganda, was to use Ugandan women as guinea pigs — to hold a conference which many of the would-be participants from abroad cannot hold in their own countries.

Women leaders should have cancelled the conference. African women should stop replicating everything that the Western "feminists" tell us to do. It is embarrassing for some African women activists to lament the cancellation of the prostitutes conference yet it was not going to benefit the sex
workers.

Jenn Jagire
Ontario, Canada

Published on: Saturday, 12th April, 2008
http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.ph ... sId=621876

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Gerüchte über die 'Niederschlagung der Prostitution' in Tansania:


Initiative in Tanzania, paying people who continue to test negative for STIs ?

Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and the World Bank?

It will be referred to as "reverse prostitution".

Wer weis mehr?

[Marc of Frankfurt]

THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AIDS AND STIs IN AFRICA
Abstract and Scholarship Deadline: May 15, 2008

The 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa
(ICASA) will be held on December 3-7, 2008, in Dakar, Senegal.
The central theme of the conference is "Africa's Response: Face
the facts". Abstract submissions and scholarship applications are
due on May 15, 2008.

For more information about the conference, visit
http://www.icasadakar2008.org

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Für HIV-Schutz und für Schutz der SexarbeiterInnen

Subject: lobbying intervention





Dear Coleagues,

Im forwarding to you the attached statement for ratification.
The document is aiming at lobbying the Uganda government provide for the marginalized groups voices, ie CSWs on the intended district committees. To make it an international concern too, we request that you add below the statement the name of your organisation, address and signature and send it to chair.hiv@parliament.go.ug not later than 8th June 2008.

Lady Mermaid’s Bureau (LMB) is a non-profit making community based organization founded in 2002 by three sexworkers, working in Uganda and having offices in Kampala the capital city of Uganda. Since inception, Lady Mermaid’s bureau has actively been involved in implementing programmes targeted specifically at lobbying for sexworkers access to health services as a social right and protection from abuse and sexual exploitation.

LMB’s philosophy is human-centered based on the belief in human dignity, the rights to equal freedom and peace to everyone. By challenging the inequalities facing sexworkers, we threaten the very conditions that allow violation of sexworkers (human) rights to thrive and confront circumstances continuously keeping sex workers excluded from policy considerations and social participation. In the 17th Parliament, Lady Mermaid’s Bureau approached the Parliamentary Legal committee seeking Parliament to pass a law legalizing sexwork. This is still a controversial and sensitive issue that has dragged on to this day.

we look forward to your cooperation. circulate woldwide

Regards,

Kigongo Ali
Programme Officer
Lady Mermaid's Bureau
Bbunga, off gaba road,
Po box 70890
Kampala
Uganda





Statement regarding formulation of HIV/AIDS committees at individual District levels by the Uganda Parliamentary committee on HIV/AIDS

This statement is ratified by a coalition of organizations Working around the clock to reverse the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and commissioned by Lady Mermaid’s Bureau. LMB is a nonprofit community organization in Uganda working altogether towards the achievement of the UN declaration of human rights for all.

In quest of a solution to deal with the HIV/AIDS epidemic, LMB welcomes and appreciates the Ugandan Parliamentary committee on HIV/AIDS’s arrangement to formulate committees at districts working on the issue of HIV/AIDS we acknowledge this positive development and are grateful for the position government is taking especially at a time when the rate of progress in expanding access to essential services is failing to keep pace with the expansion of the epidemic itself as indicated in the sixty-second session Report of the Secretary General of United Nations General Assembly on the Declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS and political Declaration On HIV/AIDS.

In the context of forming up the committees it is extremely important to have the voice of a marginalized group such as commercial sexworkers on the committees. In countries where HIV prevalence exceeds 15 per cent, only an unprecedented national mobilization, involving every sector of society and making use of every available intervention tool, will meet the challenge posed by such catastrophic continued prevalence of HIV/AIDS. Even in countries with low levels of HIV infection, populations most at risk are experiencing an exceptionally heavy burden of disease, including substantial numbers of new HIV infections. Scaling up focused HIV/AIDS intervention strategies for populations most at risk represents an urgent public health imperative, requiring a degree of political courage and leadership that has often been lacking.

Throughout the world, Sexworkers have been singled out as the Most affected by the epidemic. There are currently thousands of women involved in sexwork in Uganda, and some are migrants from Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Tanzania. For these migrant women, their risk of HIV infection is extremely high since condoms are seldom available and their bargaining power is low. Worst of all their possession of condoms may be used as evidence of their working illegally in Uganda as sexworkers. Due to the stigma, both migrant and local sexworkers are often ‘invisibilized’, as if they do not exist in reality. Their voices are silenced and they are often subjected to violence, exploitation and abuse by clients, pimps, mafia, and law enforcers. According to the ministry of health report, more than 47% of sexworkers in Kampala are HIV positive. The train of rape attacks, harassment and the prevalence of AIDS is moving fast, women and young mothers surviving as sexworkers are increasingly vulnerable to HIV infection.

Experts from UNAIDS have already concluded that despite significant progress in areas such as treatment, many of the UNGASS goals are still far from being reached. In the area of prevention, there is a backward slide since the last round of reporting in 2006.

HIV/AIDS is the single greatest threat to the security and development of much of Africa, making it impossible to attain many of the globally agreed Millennium Development Goals. Without accelerated efforts to prevent its spread, HIV/AIDS will continue to roll back progress and hard won gains and intensify poverty and human suffering in Africa. Rapidly growing demand for treatment will exceed available human and financial resources. More and more children will be orphaned, outstripping the capacity of families and communities to care for them. Millions more will become infected and die.


‘Signatory to the Statement’

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Selling Sex in Cape Town






Die Studie spricht sich gegen das Schwedische Regime zur Sexarbeit aus, und bezüglich Menschenhandel:

"contrary to media reports, there is very little evidence of trafficking".



Quotable quotes include:

"We strongly recommend that decriminalisation and regulation of the
sex work industry be considered by the South African Law Reform
Commission (SALRC) and Parliament. Sex workers and organisations
representing their interests must be engaged to devise a process to
move towards decriminalisation, in a way that balances public
interest with the interests and needs of sex workers themselves…..



"It is recommended that the SARLC and the Portfolio Committee
on Justice and Constitutional Development reconsider the clause
recently added to the Sexual Offences Act that criminalises the
clients of sex workers. Not only is this unlikely to be effective in
stopping prostitution, it will merely drive the industry further
underground as sex workers try to protect their clients in the
interests of maintaining an income. This in turn will make it all
the more difficult to detect cases of exploitation and abuse."



Downloadpage der Studie:
http://www.iss.co.za/index.php?link_id= ... &tmpl_id=3

Zeitungsbericht über Polizeimißbrauch:
viewtopic.php?p=39297#39297
(im Thema Behördenübergriffe)





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Kein Kündigungsschutz für Sexarbeiterin.

Arbeitsschutz endet vor der Bordellpforte



Law stops at brothel door

PEARLIE JOUBERT | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Aug 06 2008 06:00



A sex worker who was sacked for refusing to give clients blow jobs has lost her labour court claim for compensation for 12 months' pay and will now attempt to pursue her claim in the Constitutional Court.

In a groundbreaking legal challenge on the rights of sex workers "Kylie" took her brothel-owner employer to court for unfair dismissal two years ago.

Kylie had been sacked from a Bellville brothel after refusing to give blow jobs or have sex for half price when the owner asked her to.

In his judgement Labour Court Judge Halton Cheadle said: "There's a fundamental principle in our law that courts ought not to sanction or encourage illegal activity."

He said that to rule in her favour the provisions of the Labour Relations Act would have to be amended. "The scope of the labour rights does not include sex workers and brothel keepers as bearers of those rights.

"Subject to the Constitution, the application of the enforceability of statutory claims renders a sex worker's claim to fair dismissal under the Labour Relations Act unenforceable," Cheadle ruled.

Kylie said she will take her case to the Constitutional Court. "I may be a sex worker, but us girls need the law to protect us as well."

Kylie had worked and lived at Brigitte's Massage Parlour in Bellville. The brothel owner fired her, claiming that she didn't work enough, refused to work at weekends, spent time in her room with her boyfriend, who didn't pay, and refused to do blow jobs. Kylie laughed when she told the Mail & Guardian that she doesn't give oral sex "because it's matter of taste".

After being dismissed Kylie approached the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) for help. Sweat, a non-profit organisation that advocates the decriminalisation of the sex industry, took her case to the Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA).

But the CCMA said it could not rule on Kylie's case because sex work is illegal.

She then turned to the Labour Court, where heavyweight advocate Wim Trengove argued that the Constitution protects "everyone working for and receiving compensation from another person" against unfair dismissal and unfair labour practices, and that the Labour Relations Act should be interpreted in the spirit of the Constitution.

The Act makes no mention of the nature of the work or whether people have a legal employment contract, Trengove said.

Kylie said: "I didn't know what the CCMA was … I'm a bit shy of being the first person to challenge sex workers' rights in court. My intention was not to get prostitution legalised. It was simply to get the courts to recognise that we have rights. We are treated wrongly and badly and we have no rights as things are.

"I will gladly pay tax if that means I have the same protection by law as the next person."

She has been a dancer and sex worker for 22 years, since she was 18. "Every time you have sex during the first year in this job, you feel as though you've been raped. But after that year, I chose this job and some days couldn't wait to get to work because it made me feel good about myself.

"We girls are usually in bad personal relationships and then this job becomes a way of getting recognition and admiration," Kylie said. "My clients tell me I'm looking fantastic, they tell me I'm pretty, they like talking to me and even if it's all a lie, it's a good lie."

"I didn't choose this job -- I answered an ad for a call girl thinking I [would] have to answer telephones. The brothel owner convinced me to try the job and I was so scared of having to sleep under a bridge that I ended up staying, promising myself 'I will get out'. I didn't and now I'm 40 and I have to say that this was my chosen profession."

Kylie left the industry after being sacked and has survived for the past two years with the help of former clients and friends.

"I'm now financially so desperate that I've given myself until the end of the month and then I will go back into the industry," Kylie said.

"If you do 10 clients a day -- some days 16 or 18 clients -- you can earn very good cash money."

Brothel-based sex workers charge between R100 [100 Rand (ZAR) = 8 Euro, 4.Aug.08] and R150 for full sex, R70 for a handjob and R140 per girl for two-girl sex.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-08-06- ... othel-door





Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat)

http://www.sweat.org.za





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[nina777]

5.2.2009

By Clare Johannesburg

Johannesburg - From 10 African countries they came - women and men, straight, gay and transgendered - to share their experiences of selling sex in the world’s poorest continent and to press their demands for equal rights.

Johannesburg, Africa’s biggest city, played host this week to the first-ever African sex worker conference.
Wearing yellow conference T-shirts and jeans for the most part, 153 delegates gathered Tuesday in a health research centre in the city’s rundown Hillbrow district.

Starting on day one of a three-day session, the tone was clear. ‘We want rights, not rescue,’ a young Kenyan woman declared, reading from a communique on behalf of the participants.
Citing Africa’s political liberation movements as a source of inspiration, the sex workers are forging a pan-African alliance to press their demands for full emancipation, including an end to the criminalization of their trade.

‘In Uganda, sex workers are treated like dogs,’ Daisy Makato, 27, who sells sex on the streets of Kampala, tells Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa. ‘Some dogs have owners but we’re treated like those dirty dogs that move on the street.’
Orphaned at a young age, Daisy turned to sex for an income after getting pregnant at 17.

In some ways sex work has been good to Daisy. With her earnings - around 2,000 shillings (1 dollar) a client - she has built a house for herself and her nine-year-old daughter and pays schools fees for her younger brother and sister.

But the financial stability has come at a price.

A few years ago a rich client, a ‘big man in the government,’ she says, forced her to have unprotected sex and infected her with HIV/AIDS.
Daisy takes anti-retroviral drugs to slow the progression of the virus and insists on using condoms to prevent reinfection with another HIV strain. But, in a continent where many men balk at using a condom, protected sex can be a tough sell.

‘When I tell them I’m trying to protect them as well as myself, they say ‘you’re lying, you don’t look sick,” the round-faced Ugandan says, smoothing her glossy straight hair.
For the more hard-up, the extra money paid for ‘live sex’ can be hard to resist. In Zimbabwe, for example, where half the population of around 11 million is stalked by hunger, forgoing a condom can help a mother put more food on the table.

And protected sex can also be more expensive - for the sex worker. In Uganda, giving away free condoms is denounced by church leaders as ‘encouraging promiscuity.’ That forces some clinics and hospitals to slap a hefty price tag on the condoms donated by non-governmental organizations to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Ironically, while routinely being blamed for the spread of HIV, sex workers are often excluded from campaigns encouraging people to know their HIV status.
‘You can’t feel comfortable walking in there (to clinics),’ says Nelson, a 25-year-old sex worker from Namibia’s capital Windhoek, wearing neat bermuda shorts and flip-flops.

‘If you have a (sexually-transmitted) infection, they laugh among themselves and say it’s because you’re a sex worker.’
In the 12 years since he first began engaging in transactional sex, Nelson, who has ambitions of becoming a lawyer, says he has lost many colleagues to AIDS.

He hopes to get advice at the conference on setting up a hotline that sex workers can call, for example, when they get arrested.
Daisy has lost count of the number of times she’s been arrested for ‘idling,’ sometimes after denying a police officer free sex.

‘Sex work has always been around, and will always be around. That’s the reality,’ says Eric Harper, director of the Cape Town- based Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT). ‘The alliance is about listening to what sex workers are saying. They’re saying: ‘Let us decide for ourselves.”

http://swoplv.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/ ... ir-rights/

Übersetzt
http://translate.google.com/translate?p ... ry_state0=

[Marc of Frankfurt]

First Ever African Sex Worker Conference!

EVERY SEX WORKER IS A HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER


Mehr ...


'We want rights, not rescue'





Deutsche Presse Agentur:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/ ... eir_rights

Cape Town- based Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce:
http://sweat.org.za





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[certik]

Quelle: Spiegel online

Frauengruppen rufen zum Sex-Streik auf

Von Lysistrata lernen heißt befrieden lernen: Wie die Heldin der berühmten Komödie wollen Frauengruppen in Kenia männliche Politiker durch Sex-Entzug zu einer pazifistischen Politik bewegen. Auch Prostituierte sollen sich dem Boykott anschließen - und den Verdienstausfall bezahlt bekommen.

Nairobi - Mit einem Sex-Boykott wollen kenianische Frauengruppen die führenden Politiker zu einer Versöhnungspolitik zwischen ihren verfeindeten Stämmen bringen.

Um eine Wiederholung der blutigen Unruhen nach den Wahlen im Jahr 2008 zu verhindern, appellierten sie auch an die Ehefrauen von Präsident Mwai Kibaki und Ministerpräsident Raila Odinga, sich dem Streik anzuschließen.

Damit sich auch Prostituierte an dem Boykott beteiligen können, soll ihnen eine Entschädigung gezahlt werden, sagte Rukia Subow, die Vorsitzende der Frauenentwicklungsorganisation am Mittwoch.

Bei den Stammesunruhen nach der umstrittenen Präsidentschaftswahl in Kenia wurden Anfang 2008 mehr als 1.000 Menschen getötet.

Hunderttausende wurden obdachlos. die beiden Kontrahenten Kibaki und Odinga einigten sich auf eine gemeinsame Regierung. Trotzdem kommt es seitdem immer wieder zu Spannungen.

Die weibliche Taktik, Männer durch Sex-Entzug zu pazifistischer Politik zu zwingen, dokumentierte der griechische Dichter Aristophanes 411v. Chr. in seiner Komödie Lysistrata. Darin verschwören sich die Frauen Spartas und Athens zu einem Liebesboykott, um den Frieden zu erzwingen - was ihnen schließlich gelingt.

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Hier kann man sich die antike Sage leicht verfremdet anschaun:



http://www.ralfkoenigslysistrata.de/
http://www.amazon.de/dp/3499240467

:-)

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Fate of prostitutes in the balance

Should adult prostitution be decriminalised totally or not?


This is just one of the questions being posed by the SA Law Reform Commission in a discussion paper which has been released for public comment.

Other options contained in the document include the partial criminalisation of some forms of adult prostitution or the regulation of adult prostitution and prostitution-related acts.

The primary aim of the discussion paper is to consider the need for law reform in relation to adult prostitution and to identify alternative policy and legislative responses that might regulate, prevent, deter or reduce prostitution, a statement from the commission reads.

Under current legislation, voluntary selling and buying of adult sex and related acts are all criminal offences.


"All the proposed options presuppose the criminalisation of under-aged and coerced prostitution and trafficking of people for the purpose of prostitution," says the statement.

The release of the discussion paper will be followed by a report on adult prostitution which will contain the final recommendations of the commission.

It will also include legislative proposals relating to adult prostitution.

Copies of the summary on adult prostitution are available free of charge from the offices of the Law Reform Commission.

The closing date for public comment is June 30.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 ... 301C131873




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Urteil zugunsten von Sexworkern gegen Polizeimißbrauch:

viewtopic.php?p=56431#56431





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