SWAN calls for stronger donor engagement and support for sex workers and sex worker-led organisations
As the COVID-19 restrictions continue to stay in place, their crippling effects on marginalised communities grow deeper. For sex workers this means complete loss of income, danger of losing their homes and struggle to provide food for themselves and their families. The very limited government protection measures in the region are not accessible to most sex workers, which leaves them with only the meager support organisations are able to provide. The poverty and lack of support pushes many sex workers to violate lockdown rules and keep working in order to survive.