International Sex Workers Day 2024: International Sex workers Day 2024 is celebrated by the Sex worker groups across the world on June 2nd of this current year. Every year, it is celebrated globally on June 2nd each year all over the world. The day, also known as International Whore's Day, is a commemoration of the prejudice faced by prostitutes, as well as their frequently exploitative living and working conditions. Sex workers' living circumstances are frequently exploitative. It is because sex work is illegal in numerous countries, and as a result, its workers are not regarded the same as those in other occupations. Sex employment is typically dangerous due to the lack of rights that other employees have.

Sex workers' rights refers to a set of goals sought by individuals and groups across the world that pertain to the human, health, and labor rights of sex workers and their customers. These movements have a variety of aims, but they all attempt to legalize and de-stigmatize sex work, as well as ensuring that all people involved in the sex industry are treated fairly before legal and cultural forces on a local and worldwide level. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), globally, women sex workers are estimated to be 30 times more likely to be living with HIV than other women of reproductive age. Female sex workers also face an increased burden of blood-borne infections. Sometimes people don't behave properly with sex workers and they face violence too. Therefore, this day teaches to respect them.

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International Sex Workers Day History 

• On 2nd June, 1975, A protest happened where 100 sex workers in France gathered at Lyon’s Saint-Nizier Church and protested against the criminalisation of their work and exploitative living conditions.
• The 1975 protest sparked a nationwide strike, but it failed to bring about any reforms, and the sex workers were evicted by the police after eight days of occupying the chapel. However, the demonstration is credited with igniting the European sex workers' rights movement.
• From 1975, the June 2nd is marked as International Sex Workers day

International Sex Workers Day 2024 Theme

Every year, the topic of International Sex Workers' Day is Access to Justice, according to the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP). When it comes to obtaining justice, both as victims and as defendants, sex workers encounter a number of challenges. This day remembers the discrimination of prostitutes and their often exploitative living and conditions of working.

International Sex Workers Day 2024 Significance

Sex workers are still subjected to violence and criminalization today. As victims of crime, they are denied benefits and basic due process by the legal system. They want to improve justice and put an end to the exploitation of sex workers all around the world. This day dedicated to fighting exploitation and stigma faced by sex workers around the world.

International Sex Workers Day 2024 Quotes

• The generous people of the world put out your voice for the sex workers who are mistreated and exploited. Raise your voice for them because they are human beings too.
• No human being deserves to be mistreated or exploited. The whores do not provide mistreatment; raise your voice against sex workers’ exploitation on International Whore’s Day.
• Sex workers are workers, not mere objects who can be thrown, mistreated, and exploited at anybody’s will. Respect them and raise your voice against the exploitation of whores.

International Sex Workers Day 2024 FAQs

Q: What is International Sex Workers Day 2024 and why it is celebrated?

Ans. This day, also known as International Whore's Day, is a commemoration of the prejudice faced by prostitutes, as well as their frequently exploitative living and working conditions.

Q: What is the theme of International Se Workers Day 2024?

Ans: Every year, the theme of International Sex Workers' Day is Access to Justice, according to the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP). When it comes to obtaining justice, both as victims and as defendants, sex workers encounter a number of challenges.