We for instance are very happy with the ILO report, which could be a first step in including sexworkers in existing international instruments specifically aiming at the regulation and improvement of working conditions, the protection of workers against abuse and coercion and the elimination of forced labour. Many of us, working e.g. with victims of trafficking, daily experience the effects of excluding those working in the sexindustry from these basic labour and human rights protections. In our experience, precisely this exclusion helps to create the conditions for traffickers to operate with impunity. I don't see what good it can do to any woman to exclude one specific category of women, notably sexworkers, from this principle. I say, send letters in opposition to the ban on legalization.
Prostitution is a deprivation of women's human rights.
The Economic and Social Bases of Prostitution in Southeast Asia.