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STIGMATAZATION AND DISCRIMINATION OF SEX WORRKERS IN UGANDA - Members of Women's Organization Network for Human Rights Advocacy (WONETHA-Uganda) complain on how they are treated in Health Centers - Read Detailed Story.

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WELCOME TO WONETHA UGANDA.

Women's Organization Network for Human Rights Advocacy (WONETHA) is a sex worker led organization established in 2008 by 3 passionate and determined sexworkers who have faced harassment, insults, stigma, discrimination and arrest without trial by misinformed societies and who have been stirred into responsive action concerning the plight of other sexworkers in the same working environment.
Why focus on rights of sexworkers?
The Research conducted by OSI indicates that, “Rights Not Rescue approach” should be the way forward because sex workers are facing a health and human rights crisis in Uganda, yet very little is being done to protect their rights. Also research done across Africa shows that criminalization of sex work leaves sex workers particularly vulnerable to sexual, psychological and physical abuse from law enforcement officials and the general public. Sex workers experience routine violence from police, cruel clients and the general public at large, including rape, physical assault, and having their genitals sprayed with pepper-spray.
In recent engagement of government by sex workers who are members of WONETHA to have sex work decriminalized, sex workers sought to claim their fundamental right to social and economic freedom, equality, dignity, and privacy.

visit the link for details: http://wonethablog.blogspot.com/2011/02/wonetha-profile.html