BANGLADESH: HUNDREDS OF DISPLACED BANGLADESHI SEX WORKERS HOLD PROTEST MARCH DEMANDING REHABILITATION

Record ID: 263928

  • Title: BANGLADESH: HUNDREDS OF DISPLACED BANGLADESHI SEX WORKERS HOLD PROTEST MARCH DEMANDING REHABILITATION
  • Date: 31st March 2000
  • Summary: DHAKA, BANGLADESH (MARCH 30, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. HAS SEX WORKERS SITTING 0.06 2. SCU SOME OF THEM HIDING THEIR FACES (2 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SLV SEX WORKERS HOLDING PLACARDS 0.19 4. SCU SEX WORKER ADDRESSING CROWD 0.26 5. SLV SEX WORKERS SITTING 0.31 6. SLV ACTIVISTS OF A NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION STAGING A PLAY 0.39 7.
  • Embargoed: 15th April 2000 13:00
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  • Location: DHAKA, BANGLADESH
  • Country: Bangladesh
  • Reuters ID: LVA4YNMA8231UUTZDCX647XCLB2E
  • Story Text: Hundreds of displaced Bangladeshi sex workers
    have held a protest march in the capital Dhaka demanding
    their rehabilitation.

    Over 1,000 Bangladeshi sex workers on Thursday (March
    30) demonstrated in Dhaka demanding their immediate
    rehabilitation.

    In July last year, police evicted hundreds of sex workers
    from the century-old Tan Bazaar brothel in Narayanganj
    district near Dhaka.

    "Rehabilitate us" and "Implement court verdict", the sex
    workers, several of them in veils, chanted.

    The high court has termed the eviction "illegal" and ruled
    that they should be allowed to practice their profession so
    that they can earn their livelihood.

    Advocate Sigma Huda, who pleaded for the evicted sex
    workers, said that the women had been illegally evicted and
    that they were not vagrants.Keeping them confined in vagrant
    homes was against their rights, she said.

    The demonstration was organised by "Sanghati", a
    federation of feminist organisations.

    Members of several human rights organisations staged plays
    to highlight the plight of sex workers.

    The sex workers later staged a protest march.


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