Failures of Justice [antikvár]

INTRODUCTORY NOTEI have experience working as a sex worker both "legally"and "illegally". I have lived in a country in Eastern Europe where offering erotic and sexual services in exchange for money was punishable by prison. Later on, they have changed the law, so that now us sex workers are committing "only" a misdemeanor. Then I migrated to another country where sex work is legal, yet since sex workers were never consulted in the process of drafting the law, the regulations are so tight and faulty, that basic humán rights and labour rights can become easily ignored. I have all this time considered myself "lucky" for working indoors - wherever I lived, outdoor sex workers were the most exposed to perpetrators and police using the law arbitrarily to harass and abuse, and/or turn a blind eye to violence committed by others. It's not like there wouldn't be police raids in indoor locations either, but I guess I am just really very'lucky" Recently, I got to know more about the experiences of othersex workers in countries from our region where sex work is decriminalized, yet the state and authorities invent other pretexts and use other laws to punish sex workers. You have the opportunity to find out more from this study: when it's not anti-sex work laws, third party laws, anti-trafficking laws, it's public order and "decency"laws, or laws against the spreading of STIs and HIV. Repression from the state and written legal systems go hand in hand with the unwritten law of "public" morality, and the ever-present stigma which, as you will see from this study and our stories, in so many cases prohibits sex workers from seeking justice from the same very unjust system which oppresses us. Woman, Roma/of colour, drug user, part of another oppressed ethnic minority, queer, trans, HIV positive, poor - if you happen to be one of those or more (and most of us are), they would know how to take advantage of all our vulnerabilities and criminalize us.In spite of all of this, sex workers resist and fight back. All sex workers are strong. And when we start to organize, it's perceived as such a threat