Länderberichte AFRIKA:

[Jason]

Namibia | 27.05.2009
Fahrradverleih statt Prostitution


Fahrradfahren ist angesagt - besonders in Entwicklungsländern. Fahrräder brauchen keinen Sprit, man kann sie selbst reparieren. In Namibia verteilt eine NGO gebrauchte Räder an arme Menschen und schafft damit neue Jobs.


Platte Reifen, kaputte Bremsen oder verbogene Speichen, Maria und ihre Mädels, wie sie sie nennt, haben für alles eine Lösung. Zusammen mit fünf anderen Frauen arbeitet sie bei der Nichtregierungsorganisation BEN (Bicycling Empowerment Network). Sie alle haben eine gemeinsame Vergangenheit: in ihrem früheren Leben arbeiteten sie als Prostituierte. Maria ist heute 36 Jahre alt. Als ihre Ehe vor sieben Jahren in die Brüche ging wurde sie in die Prostitution gezwungen. Und sie wurde drogen- und alkoholabhängig. "Prostitution ist ein Begriff, der alles Üble umfasst", meint die Mutter von fünf Kindern. "Darunter fallen Straßen- und Waisenkinder, kaputte Familien, zerstörte Ehen, HIV/AIDS".


Ausbrechen aus dem Rotlichtmilieu

Heute ist Maria Mitglied von King's Daughters, einem lokalen Kirchenprojekt, das Prostituierten hilft, aus dem Rotlichtmilieu auszubrechen, und neue Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten bietet. Um die ehemaligen Prostituierten zu Fahrradmechanikerinnen auszubilden, hat sich King's Daughters mit dem Bicycling Empowerment Network zusammengeschlossen. Michael Linke leitet BEN in Namibia. Die Prostitution sei dort eine sehr gefährliche Tätigkeit, erklärt er. Zusätzlich zur Gewalt, denen Prostituierte in der ganzen Welt ausgesetzt seien, gebe es viele Gefahren. Die HIV-Rate liege in Namibia bei 20%. Also einer von fünf Kunden ist statistisch gesehen HIV-positiv und oft werden Prostituierte gezwungen, auf Kondome zu verzichten. Da Prostitution in Namibia illegal ist, hätten die Frauen auch wenig Verhandlungsspielraum.


Neues Verantwortungsbewusstsein

Als Fahrradmechanikerin hat Maria aber jetzt neue Fähigkeiten und auch ein ganz neues Verantwortungsbewusstsein erworben. "Als Managerin bin ich für alles verantwortlich". Es gebe manche Teile am Fahrrad, die schwierig zu reparieren seien. "Darauf muss man sich dann besonders konzentrieren". Auch die Kolleginnen brauchen ihre Unterstützung. Der Teamfaktor ist für Maria besonders wichtig, jeder müsse dem anderen helfen. Wenn man Maria und die anderen fünf Frauen bei der Arbeit beobachtet, scheint ihnen keine Aufgabe zu schwierig. Sie machen alles: reparieren Räder, kümmern sich um die Abrechnungen und das Marketing, kontrollieren den Vorrat an Ersatzteilen und bestellen neue Vorräte.


Die Fahrradwerkstatt hat erst Ende März aufgemacht, aber sie haben schon mehr als 30 Gebrauchträder verkauft, erzählt Maria stolz. Und die Kunden seien zufrieden mit den neuen Fahrradmechanikerinnen. Maria sagt, ihr Leben habe einen ganz neuen Sinn bekommen. Sie sitze nicht mehr zuhause rum, trinke oder hungere. Und daran ihren Körper zu verkaufen denke sie auch nicht mehr. "Jetzt habe ich einen Job, muss morgens um acht bei der Arbeit sein und gehe um fünf Uhr wieder nach Hause. Ich habe jetzt einen Rahmen, an den ich mich halten kann. Ganz ehrlich, früher war ich ein Nichts, aber heute bin ich jemand."


Das Fahrrad als Alternative

Die Fahrradwerkstatt in Katutura ist nur eines von 16 Zentren, das das Bicycling Empowerment Network in ganz Namibia betreibt. Mit Erfolg, denn die Menschen sind wirklich auf die Fahrräder angewiesen, erklärt Michael Linke. "Die Dörfer in Namibia sind sehr verstreut, und die Distanzen sind extrem groß. Um zur nächsten Bank zu gehen, sind 20 Kilometer durch die Wüste keine Seltenheit." Rund 60% der Namibier hätten keinen Zugang zu motorisiertem Transport. Es gebe keine Taxis, keine Busse, keine privaten Fahrzeuge. Seit 2005 hat BEN mehr als 7.000 gebrauchte Fahrräder in Namibia verteilt. Die meisten Räder kommen aus Europa und Nordamerika. Dieses Jahr hofft die Organisation das zehntausendste Fahrrad auszuhändigen.


Autorin: Barbara Gruber

Redaktion: Katrin Ogunsade

Quelle: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4283397,00.html

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Die Kombination von Entwicklungshilfe und Prostitutionsfeindlichkeit ist abzulehnen



Mein Kommentar zum Artikel der Deutschen Welle:
http://sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=58011#58011

Im Thema:
www.sexworker.at/exit





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Sexworker-Organisation mit einzigartigen Business-Regeln in
Accra, der Hauptstadt von Ghana

Sex workers hold elections


Spectator, 8 August 2009


Accra: Spectator investigations have revealed that a well organised sex trade is currently in place in some parts of the capital, an indication that sex workers are gunning to legitimise the flesh trade to demand their rights.


Indeed, the infamous ladies of the night have been observed to be organising their vocation in a more closely knit fashion and some of the emerging groups have held elections to select executive officers to run and co-ordinate affairs of members.


Talking to The Spectator, one of the sex workers (with a fixed address), on condition of anonymity, said the elected officers of the group she belongs to include a chairperson, a secretary and a treasurer, supported by a disciplinary committee. “The executives have been constituted as a result of challenges we face in this business,” she said. According to her, if she was seen talking to the press she would be slapped with a fine of GH¢50 and two bottles of schnapps for divulging information to an outsider.





In an answer as to the type of customers they serviced, she said most of the customers belong to the lower income group who are faced with accommodation problems.”People who sleep in groups or in the open and therefore cannot host women, find solace in our rooms,” she said.
She, however, admitted that apart from such groups, other people like married men who are fed up with their wives visit their abode and never regret it.
Some of the customers, she said, preferred to bond with the women they liked most and visited them as friends, but such customers are bad business and cannot be entertained.” According to her, when such a customer wanted a different woman for a change and matters were not handled carefully “it often erupted into full-scale-verbal exchanges and even degenerated into blows”.
The sex worker said sometimes the low patronage of their services was an indication that a customer has become fed up with his regular woman.
Under such circumstances the magajia’s (chairperson’s) duty is to liaise with other clients facing the same form of disinterest for a swap of partners.
“This strategy makes us look fresh to the new man and business picks up again,” she said.
Adding that “the trade is such that when a fresh young lady also appears on the scene and all the attention of customers is on her, she is given a directive by the magajia to close ‘business’ early so that other people will get their fair share of the cake. “Failure to comply with the directive means an automatic transfer from the base to another place so that other people’s businesses will not suffer,” she added, implying that there are some forms of stringent business edicts that cannot be defied.





Another revelation was that all the sex workers who happen to have either husbands or serious boyfriends must make them stay away during business hours and admit them only after mid-night to warm the bed of their partners. “There is no room for maternity leave as our rooms are hot cakes for other potential sex workers,” said the woman.
“Both pregnant and lactating mothers are made to find elsewhere because when children are brought into the picture it brings about many difficulties.” According to her, “Children beyond a certain age are encouraged to excuse their mothers by hanging around with neighbours when a session is in progress or taking a stroll until business is over”. She said if they are young and fast asleep in the room, they are not bothered and business could still go on with out any fuss.





When asked whether she knew her HIV status, the lady answered in the negative, contending that “having stayed in the business for long, I am too much afraid to go for voluntary counseling and testing (VCT)”. She said in the past, they charged special rates for ‘raw’ sex [Sex ohne Kondom], but ever since the menace of HIV/AIDS dawned on them, no matter the money or the HIV status of the person, “we fit you with a condom before any sex act takes place.”





Some of the flash points for the commercial sex workers who parade the streets in Accra are the Cantonment area especially near the Akufo-Addo Circle, Danquah Circle and surrounding areas and the Kwame Nkrumah Circle and its immediate environs. The sex workers hide in the dark and show themselves when they see men coming, with some boldly calling up saying, “Do you want to know the colour of my underwear?”

When a sex worker hooks a customer who doesn’t want to follow her home, she takes him to a cheap hotel where the customer pays a fee of between GH¢5 and GH¢10 for short time of about 30 minutes, so says this lady of the night. For those men who cannot afford that ‘luxury’ they are bundled into nearby kiosks, urinals or makeshift brothels operated by small drinking spots for quick service.





King Trinity Akpalie, executive director of Great Vision Africa, a non-governmental organisation based in Accra which is committed to promoting abstinence and faithfulness against the spread of HIV in Ghana has this to say: “Such people are living in a fool’s paradise with their reliance on condoms as a preventive measure against the HIV/AIDS virus”.

According to him, the American Foundation for AIDS Research had stated that 20 per cent of American condom users were infected with HIV due to misuse and manufacturers’ deficiency. Mr Akpalie said research indicated that the level of education of users influenced their ability to use condom correctly. “This puts the developing world; especially the low come groups, who are, predominantly illiterates and patronise the services of sex workers, at a higher risk of contracting the HIV virus while using condom,” he said.

Ghana’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) released in 2006, which monitored the situation of children, women and men in the assessment of condom use in Ghana came out with the finding that the likelihood of engaging in higher risk sex and using a condom increased with the people’s level of education. The survey said 25 per cent of women and 33 per cent of men aged between 15-49 with primary education used a condom during their last high-risk sex encounters in the year before the MICS, while 48 per cent of women and 60 per cent of men with secondary and higher levels of education used a condom.


Ganzer Artikel:
http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/200908/33742.asp
Quelle:
http://www.nodo50.org/Laura_Agustin/gha ... -elections





Sexwork und Gewerkschaften:
viewtopic.php?t=4508





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[Arum]

Ein Bericht aus Kenya:

<b>Keeping hope despite life's hardships</b>


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For some women, access to small amounts of money to set up a stall is the only viable alternative to the other way to feed their children: prostitution. I arranged to speak to some of these women through a local church, and was warned that they would not wish to be identified. When I spoke to them, however, they were adamant that they were not ashamed to be named or photographed, since whatever they did was what they had to do.

Martha Mukami, who is 38 and looks after five children (including two of her dead sister-in-law's) is a wiry, energetic woman with a proud and forceful personality. (We were told, only half in jest, that we would be safe in Mathare so long as we had Martha with us.) Her husband, from whom she had separated, died in 2007, and she thinks it may have been from HIV.

She doesn't know her own HIV status: "If I found out and it was bad, I could get a shock and die." A former prostitute, she says some customers would refuse to use condoms, and "I could not get afraid because I needed the money". Occasionally, customers were violent: "but it wasn't too bad, they only slapped me". Her older children, she says, encouraged her to take up prostitution when they were destitute. She usually made about 6 EUR a day, but the police would take up to 2 EUR of that from her.

She stopped working as a prostitute when she got a 50 EUR grant through Concern and set up a small business selling charcoal and porridge. "I know at least seven or eight other women who want to stop as well - if they had the choice. I know girls of 10 to 15 going into prostitution, sleeping with men who are obviously abusing them. Nobody is helping them." For herself it is "just me and my children now - no men".

Lillian Wythera started working as a prostitute 20 years ago when she was 18. "A friend encouraged me to go to Mombasa and took me there. It was very hard to start, and I hated the work. Sometimes I was beaten and not given the agreed amount. Sometimes the police would arrest us and hold us until we slept with them." She sent money to Mathare to support her three children, who were with her mother. When she returned four years ago, "they called my mother Mama, and me by my name. It made me very sad."

She too, set up a stall with the money from Concern, and told her eldest daughter what she had worked at: "She is big now so I explained it to her because I don't want her to be like me."

In spite of their often brutal experiences, these women, too, believe life will be better for their children. Lillian says her son is first in his class at school. If she was president, she says, she would ensure all children could go to school without having to pay. "When you have education," she says, "you have hope." I asked Martha what she wanted her children to be. "One will be a doctor, one an engineer. With God's help, everything is possible."

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/wor ... 97181.html

[Arum]

Ein Bericht aus Zimbabwe:


<B>'Prostitution never brought me joy'</b>


CHIPO Chatyoka's life as a prostitute had reached a dead end when she came to Hope Nyamapanda Centre, the so-called retirement home for sex workers.

The 36-year-old former prostitute went to the border town of Nyamapanda from nearby Tsonga Village a few years ago to look for riches through one of the world's oldest professions.
Ravaged by diseases and weighed down by the hectic life of prostitution, Chatyoka decided to retire recently from her demanding job without much to show for it.
She now talks about her past as a prostitute with regret and is adamant that prostitution does not pay.
"There is no day I can say I was happy during my days as a prostitute.
"You are always crying and regretting your actions. In short, there is no way one can enjoy being a prostitute."
Chatyoka has since turned a new leaf and joined other former prostitutes at the home at Nyamapanda Border Post where they try out various income-generating projects.

Zum Weiterlesen: http://www1.sundaymail.co.zw/inside.asp ... 411&cat=17

[Arum]

Südafrika: Decriminalise prostitution, urges Cosatu


Cosatu [Congress of South African Trade Unions] has called for prostitution to be decriminalised and unionised in a draft document due to be discussed at the union's 10th conference in Midrand on September 21. The union even went so far as to say that sex work should be "part of the broader campaign of job creation".

However, in the long run, Cosatu hopes sex work will die a natural death as "the struggle for socialism to change social and economic conditions as well as mindsets will eliminate the excesses of sex work and, in the long run, eliminate sex work in our society".

Cosatu's position is at odds with that expressed last week by the National Interfaith Leadership Council, a religious movement linked to President Jacob Zuma.

The council also wanted to revisit laws legalising abortion and same-sex marriages.

In a discussion paper released three months ago, the South African Law Reform Commission proposed that prostitution be decriminalised and regulated.

Cosatu said it would like to add its voice to the debate, and has encouraged its affiliates to do the same.

It said "the proliferation of sex work (should be) part of the broader campaign of job creation, (the) basic income grant, et cetera, to alleviate poverty".

The government has promised to create half a million new job opportunities by December.

Cosatu believes itself and its affiliates "should do education work and raise awareness to do away with stigma and change perceptions about sex workers".

It also said organisations like the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat), "who are trying to educate and organise sex workers", should be supported.

A number of ANC leaders have expressed support for the decriminalisation of prostitution, while the South African National Aids Council, headed by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, recently said it wanted sex worker bodies to participate in its meetings.

Zum Weiterlesen: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 ... 224C571468

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Härteres Vorgehen gegen Sexworker in Südafrika

http://www.nodo50.org/Laura_Agustin/wha ... -cape-town


möglicherweise alles nur wegen der kommenden WM, aber das haben wir ja hier im Forum schön längst durchdiskutiert

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Swasiland: Hilfe statt Strafe für Prostituierte

Senatorin liest Moralisten die Leviten


Von Mantoe Phakathi


Mbabane. Mit ihrem öffentlich bekundeten Widerstand gegen ein Prostitutionsverbot in Swasiland hat Senatorin Thuli Msane in ein Wespennest gestochen.

Das Parlament des kleinen Königreichs im Süden Afrikas soll demnächst über einen Gesetzentwurf debattieren, der allen mehrjährige Gefängnisstrafen und Geldbußen androht, die im Sexgewerbe ihr Geld verdienen.

Prostituierte einzusperren löse das Problem nicht, betonte Msane. Die Frauen würden dadurch lediglich noch mehr von ihren Kunden ausgebeutet. Stattdessen müsse die Regierung zunächst einmal die Lebensumstände verbessern, die arme, arbeitslose Frauen in die Prostitution zwingen, forderte die Senatorin und brachte damit traditionsbewusste und christliche Moralisten gegen sich auf. Sie halten ihr vor, sich für eine Praxis zu engagieren, die gegen die christlichen und kulturellen Werte des Landes verstoße.

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Der dem Parlament vorliegende Entwurf des 'Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Bill' sieht für Prostituierte sechs Jahre Haft oder eine Geldbuße von rund 2.000 US-Dollar vor. Wer Bordelle oder Kinderprostitution betreibt, soll bis zu 25 Jahre hinter Gittern verbringen und umgerechnet 13.000 Dollar Strafe zahlen. Das derzeit geltende Strafgesetz von 1889 droht jedem, der eine Person zu 'unmoralischen Handlungen' verleitet, mit einer Geldbuße von umgerechnet rund 80 Dollar und zwei Jahren Haft.

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Eine vom Nationalen Aids/STI-Programm (SNAP) 2007 durchgeführte Untersuchung hatte ergeben, dass
mehr als 60 Prozent der Prostituierten noch keine 25 Jahre als waren.
67 Prozent der Befragten gaben an, beim Sex auf Kondome zu verzichten. Nach Angaben des Gesundheitsministeriums sind in Swasiland
26 Prozent der 15- bis 49-Jährigen mit dem HI-Virus infiziert.


Prostitution: Eine moralisch anfechtbare Realität

Auch wenn viele Frauenrechtsaktivistinnen im Land Msanes Forderung unterstützen, lehnen manche Parlamentarierinnen die Haltung ihrer Kollegin ab. "Prostitution fördert die Ausbeutung von Frauen", erklärte die gewählte Abgeordnete Nonhlanhla Dlamini, eine ehemalige Vorsitzende der NGO 'Swaziland Group Against Abuse'. "Als Christin bin ich gegen Prostitution", betonte sie. "In diesem Gewerbe geht es um Macht und Kontrolle. Diejenige, die Sex kaufen, sind in einer weit stärkeren Position als die Frauen, die ihn anbieten."

(Diejenigen die Arbeitsplätze bei GM anbieten oder bei Opel abbauen haben auch sehr viel mehr Macht als die Arbeiter. Anm. ;-)

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Den Hinweis auf Swasilands christliche Werte lässt Msane nicht gelten. "In diesem Land ist man schnell mit der Moral bei der Hand, wenn es darum geht, bestimmte Gruppen, etwa Prostituierte, auszugrenzen. Die Bibel verbietet auch die Ehescheidung, trotzdem wird sie geduldet", betonte sie. "Auch Prostitution ist unmoralisch und dennoch eine Realität."


Zusätzliche Informationen im Internet: www.swazilandHospiceathome.org


Original: kostenpflichtigerartikelvon afrika.info/IPS
http://www.afrika.info/aktuell_detail.p ... kp=aktuell





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Prostitution und die WM in Südafrika

http://www.fairunterwegs.org/aktuell/ne ... no_cache=1

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Neues Gesetz in Uganda geplant:

Todesstrafe gegen Schwule soll gegen AIDS-Gefahr schützen?


http://www.hlsa.de/DLWAF/wordpress/?p=205

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0 ... 93,00.html





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Prostitution der girls und boys in Mombasa, Kenia und Hilfprojekt

www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/Home/Lokal ... ,4492.html

www.girlsHope.de

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Arbeitsrecht der Sexarbeit muß erst noch geschrieben werden:
Vom MassageSalon gekündigte Sexarbeiterin beschwert sich über Abweisung einer Klagemöglichkeit

Sacked South African sex worker claims unfair dismissal


Foto: A sex worker in Durban's Point Road
There have been some calls to legalise prostitution for the World Cup


A South African sex worker has gone to court, saying she was unfairly sacked by a Cape Town massage parlour.

Known as Kylie, she was dismissed for choosing her clients and spending time with her boyfriend who did not pay for her services, local media report.

The judge said he was not sure how a person engaged in an illegal activity could challenge her dismissal in court.

But Kylie's lawyer said her case was about unfair dismissal, not whether selling sex should be legalised.

Several previous courts have refused to hear the case, on the basis that sex work is illegal, reports the South African Press Association.

Three judges at the Labour Appeals Court are now considering whether they can intervene.

"When dismissed you are made to stop with something criminal... but then you say: 'Please protect me from someone who is stopping me from doing something criminal' - it doesn't makes sense to me," said Judge President Raymond Zondo, Sapa reports.

Kylie has spent seven years trying to seek redress after being sacked in 2003.

She is reported to have since left the profession.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8563923.stm





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[Arum]

Human trafficking under spotlight in South Africa

By DONNA BRYSON (AP)

ERMELO, South Africa — Police in this small town in eastern South Africa thought they had a problem with prostitutes they could solve in the usual way — arrest the women and get them off the streets.

Then Warrant Officer Magda Scholtz found herself doing something unusual. She talked to the women, curious about what had brought them to Ermelo. She found the problem was human traffickers.

At a heavily guarded hearing Friday, seven suspects waived their right to bail in a case in which they are accused of recruiting women and at least one 16-year-old from across South Africa and bringing them to Ermelo, where they were treated like slaves and forced into prostitution.

Two other suspects asked for more time to appeal for a bail, and a new hearing was set for month's end.

The case comes as South Africa prepares to enact tough new legislation against human traffickers. The World Cup that opens in June also has focused attention on the crime, with questions about whether trafficking might increase because of the influx of partying fans.

The women in the case before the court Friday spoke of being locked in their rooms when they weren't working and of being beaten by the suspects. Their identity documents were taken from them and they were forced to take drugs. All their earnings were taken from them, and they were given little to eat beyond rice and cheap meat.

"One girl was raped ... because she refused to work," Scholtz said.

Four women who have agreed to testify against the suspects are in a witness protection program. Scholtz said even she does not know where they are, but is confident they will appear when the time comes during trial.

Other women were afraid to testify, and the fear increased when a prostitute was found dead near the apartment complex where the women had been living. Scholtz said the dead woman, who had been strangled, had said she would testify but refused to enter the protection program.

Vanessa Barolsky, a sociologist at South Africa's Human Sciences Research Council, said police too often fail to listen to the women, children and migrants, who are the most common victims of traffickers.

"Often what happens is that people are just investigated for prostitution without anybody investigating further," she said. "There are a lot of cases that are probably lost."

Barolsky's government-supported think tank released a report in March that explored trafficking in South Africa. The report said victims included children brought from elsewhere in Africa or the South African countryside to work as street vendors, baby sitters and maids in South Africa's cities. Some work in conditions very close to slavery, and those who leave at times fall into sex work out of desperation.

Mehr hier: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... gD9F4BC6G0

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Decriminalise!

A web resource for the campaign to decriminalise sex work in South Africa


http://saSexwork.org





Mythos Zwangsprostitution anläßlich von Großereignissen wie WM oder Olympia:
viewtopic.php?t=388





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Südafrika:

Sexarbeiterin hat den "Kündigungsschutz"-Prozess gegen ihren Chef nur zum Teil gewonnen

Sex worker wins labour appeal


May 28 2010

A Cape Town sex worker claiming unfair dismissal has won a ruling from the Labour Appeal Court that she is entitled to protection under South African labour law.

Court president Dennis Davis said in a judgment handed down on Friday that the ruling did not sanction sex work.

However, he said, the fact that prostitution was illegal did not mean a sex worker was not entitled to constitutional protection.

He ruled that the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) "has jurisdiction to determine the dispute between the parties in the present case".

The sex worker, identified only as Kylie, was fired in 2006 from her job at Brigitte's Massage Parlour in the city.

Claiming unfair dismissal, she approached the CCMA, but it refused to take on the case, saying that because she was not working in a legal job, it did not have jurisdiction.

The Labour Court also ruled against her, saying the right to claim unfair dismissal did not apply when the acts involved were illegal.

Sapa
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 ... 426C563641





The juridical system and the media - a sex worker comment:


The sex worker claimed:

1- unfair dismissal.

2- Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), refused to take on the case, saying that because she was not working in a legal job, it did not have jurisdiction.


The judge ruled:

0- she is entitled to protection under South African labour law.

1- the right to claim unfair dismissal did not apply when the acts involved were illegal (as sex work is in SA).

2- the CCMA "has jurisdiction to determine the dispute between the parties in the present case".



So the sex worker in fact loses the main claim and wins a minor claim in the court appeal.
She loses her claim, but CCMA is still in charge. So what type of victory is that?

To me this ruling follows the well established theological argument in Roman Catholic Church: "homosexual sex is sin, but homosexuals are humans and church will take care".

The institution always wins.

So the style of this press article and its header is typically following the media selling doctrine and necessity (i.e. non-sexual prostitution).





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Forts.:

An important case on sex work and South African labour law.


From Legalbriefs:

Labour: Landmark ruling on unfair dismissal of prostitute Sex worker
‘Kylie’, dismissed from a brothel for not performing her duties properly,
has won her case in the Labour Appeal Court. A Saturday Star report says
Judge President Raymond Zondo, Judge Dennis Davis and Judge Achmat Jappie
ruled that just because someone worked in an illegal profession, this did
not mean they had no rights under the Labour Relations Act. Kylie worked
at a massage parlour in Bellville, Cape Town, for about 10 years before
she was fired. The reasons given were that Kylie allegedly failed to do
enough bookings, did not manage her time, chose specific clients, refused
to perform oral sex and spent time in her room with her boyfriend, who
was not a paying customer. In August 2006 Kylie approached the CCMA, but
commissioner Bella Goldman ruled that it did not have jurisdiction over
acase of this nature. The Labour Court declined to enforce her rights
because the nature of her work was illegal. Now the Labour Appeal Court
has set aside the Labour Court's finding, and ruled that the CCMA did have
the jurisdiction to handle Kylie's case. The report notes that the judges
said much of the previous court's jurisprudence was ‘significantly
incongruent with our Constitution's commitment to freedom, equality and
dignity and its concern to protect the vulnerable, exploited and
powerless’.

(Full Saturday Star report - subscription needed)





Davis said in the judgment that the ruling did not sanction sex work,
according to a report on the IoL site. However, he said the fact that
prostitution was illegal did not mean a sex worker was not entitled to
constitutional protection. He ruled that the CMA ‘has jurisdiction to
determine the dispute between the parties in the present case’.
(Full report on the IoL site)





Das Urteil:

Judgement available:


http://sex-work-2010-reference-group.go ... BHgXsm_bi0





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[Arum]

Die führende niederländische Tageszeitung NRC Handelsblad eröffnet dieses Wochenende eine Artikelreihe zur weltweiten Lage der Prostitution mit einem ausführlichen Bericht über Kenia. Leider nur entweder in der Papierausgabe oder im Abonnententeil der Webseite einseitlich, darüberhinaus natürlich auf Niederländisch.

Interessanterweise kann man aber sagen, dass dieser Beitrag der herkömmlichen moralischen Entrüstung fern bleibt, den Frauen selber ausgiebig zu Wot lässt, und klarstellt wie sehr die Prostitution gerade in einem prüden Land wie Kenia den Frauen eine Chanche auf Selbstbestimmung bietet, wie sie die sonst nie hätten haben können. Prostitution in Kenia ist weitestgehend freigewählt, aus einem Bedürfnis nach sozialem Aufstieg heraus.

Und so gibt es auch Prostituiertenkollektive, wie zB die Nightnurses, auf gegenseitiger Hilfeleistung erbaut. Die SW in Kenia machen alles in allem die Erfahrung, dass gerade in einer männlich dominierten Land wie Kenia, wo Frauen regelmässig von ihren Männern misshandelt werden, die Prostitution zu bevorzugen ist. Bleibt nur die Frage nach der Altersfürsorge, denn verboten ist die Prostituion in Kenia ohnehin.

Alles in allem ein sehr einfühlsamer Bericht, ohne jeglicher Moralisierung, darüberhinaus im Wirrtschaftsteil der Zeitung.

Hier findet man den Beitrag auf Niederländisch:
http://hooker.be/showthread.php?p=1255157

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Prostitution in Kenia ist weitestgehend freigewählt, aus einem Bedürfnis nach sozialem Aufstieg heraus.

Vermutlich gilt das auch für die Mehrheit der Kenianerinnen, die sich eine Interkontinentalreise in Europäische Metropolen zum Zwecke der Sexarbeitsausübung organisieren?!


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"We never went to youth clubs, because children [besser: Jugendliche?] have no money. And not to expensive clubs, because they only want young girls. And the whites who come who do not like our big butts. "



Ich ärgere mich immer über solche zu kurz geratenen Medien-Aussagen: "[Mindestpreis für Sex] 20 shillinge sind 20 cents." Klingt nach billig und arm. Aber wenn man sich dafür in Kenia soviel kaufen kann wie bei uns für 30-50 Euro ...

[Arum]

          

Ich ärgere mich immer über solche zu kurz geratenen Medien-Aussagen: "[Mindestpreis für Sex] 20 shillinge sind 20 cents." Klingt nach billig und arm. Aber wenn man sich dafür in Kenia soviel kaufen kann wie bei uns für 30-50 Euro ...

Ja, ist schon wahr, aber im Angesicht der allgemein positiven Darstellung des Artikels scheint mir das doch eher nebensächlich. Darüberhinaus sind NRC Handelsblad Leser mehrheitlich doch schon in der Lage selber solche Kalkulationen anzustellen. Das sind meistens nicht die Dümmsten...

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Interview mit zwei Sexworkern (weiblich männlich) aus Uganda:

http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/06 ... interview/