Mluleki Mrwebi
27 May 2014
Sonke Gender Justice together with several organizations
have called on the South African Law Reform Commission to urgently recommend
the decriminalization of sex workers.
Sonke Gender Justice’s Sally Shackleton said gender based
violence is an injustice that affects many women and girls world wild with South Africa recording some of
the highest rates of sexual violence.
Shackleton said this case was just one of the cases that go
to court.
She added that sex workers need protection not be
prosecuted.
This comes after Convicted double
murderer Johannes de Jager has been sentenced to life behind bars. He was found
guilty of killing and cutting up the body of 16-year-old Charmaine Mare in Cape
Town last year.
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