Legislators have introduced a landmark bill to better protect sex workers from discrimination and violence.
“This is not just about decriminalizing workers or the absence of criminal codes. It’s about making sure people who work in the sex trades have access to making a living in the sex industry in a way that is not a crime,”, a member of the Decrim NY steering committee, a director at the New York City Anti-Violence Project, and a former sex worker.
Decriminalization is supported by human rights organizations like Amnesty International and the World Health Organization, who argue that prostitution’s illegal status only make it more likely for those in the sex work industry to face violent or exploitative conditions, as opposed to protecting them. The Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act would also— preventing landlords from evicting sex workers or declining to rent to them at all.
“Neither young people nor adults should have to trade sex to meet their needs,” Jessica Raven, a former sex worker and Decrim NY steering member,
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