ISS Seminar: Prostitution and Trafficking: Release of Research Results

Date: 2008-07-31 to Invalid date

ISS Seminar: Prostitution and Trafficking: Release of Research Results
Pretoria, 31 July 2008

 

Are women tricked into sex work? How much control do they have over their working conditions? Are sex workers able to leave if they want to? The answers to these and many other questions about the sex work industry can be found in Selling Sex in Cape Town: Sex Work and Human Trafficking in a South African City.  The book reports on the results of a two-year study by the Institute for Security Studies and the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Task Force. It is the first complete survey and analysis of the sex work industry in a South African city, Cape Town.  It analyses numbers, earnings, working conditions and various aspects of exploitation of both street-based and brothel-based sex workers, and makes recommendations on how exploitation of sex workers can be prevented.  As human trafficking into prostitution is of concern both in South Africa and worldwide, the book examines and reports on the extent to which trafficking is a feature of the sex work industry in Cape Town.

 

Join us for the launch of the book and lively discussion and debate about these issues.

 

Discussant: Mohau Pheko

 

Speakers:

• Nicolé Fick (SWEAT) and Chandré Gould (ISS): Sex Work and Trafficking Findings and Policy Implications

• Lisa Vetten (Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre to End Violence Against Women): Picturing the Prostitute: The Social Construction of Sex Work

• Delphine Serumaga (People Opposing Women Abuse): Sex Work: Exploring the Principle of Choice and Agency

Time: 11h30  - 13h00 (a finger lunch will be served)
Venue: ISS Office, Block C, Brooklyn Court, Veale Street, New Muckleneuk, Tshwane
(Parking at ABSA Court and Brooklyn Mall)

 

RSVP: Busi Nyume, [email protected]. Tel: 012 346 9500

 

This seminar is made possible by funding from the Belgian Development Agency

 

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