Commentaries by Priyadarshee Mukhopadhyay

Criminalization and COVID-19: Acute Social Insecurity and the Critical Condition of Sex Workers in India

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Criminalization and COVID-19: Acute Social Insecurity and the Critical Condition of Sex Workers in India

Priyadarshee Mukhopadhyay

July 8, 2020 11:00:14 pm

“Are we not human that we have been left to die like this?” This was implored by one of the estimated 3 million sex workers in India whose existence is consistently disdained by the government. Historically, social inequality has been an indisputable part of sex workers’ lives. In India, the prohibitionist approach of criminalizing sex work [...]

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