Monday, 17 August 2015

Sex workers are also humans!!


"Pinhaa tha daam-e-sakht qareeb aashiyaan ke
Udne hi na paaye the ki giraftaar hum hue " - Mirza Ghalib
In India perhaps there are 20 million or more sex workers
(prostitutes). They have been driven into this profession not
because they enjoy it but because of abject poverty. The
massive poverty of about 80% of our population of 1200
million people is the real cause of exploitation of women. To
fill their stomachs these poor girls have to sell their bodies.
These girls should have had a life of happiness, but instead
they get caught in the flesh trade because of their poverty at a
very early age and their lives are ruined.
Surely it cannot be said they enjoy a life of dignity envisaged
by Article 21 of the Constitution.
Its an issue which is never put up or discussed publically as it
questions our moral but rape, domestic violence and female
feticide doesn't.

If they have to do this work, doesn't make them any less human.
Cases have been reported where these people have been bashed publically, denied from taking treatment in hospitals, and even killed.
Sadly we fail to realise that they are also a part of us and deserve equal rights as we do!
Their children are often bullied and harassed, the reason being their parents are involved in something that questions your moral publically.

# Satyam_Bruyat

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