[GA - WITHDRAWN] Protecting Sex Workers

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Protecting Sex Workers
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Labour Rights
Proposed by: Magecastle Embassy Building A5 | Onsite Topic​

The World Assembly,

Highlighting the unfair discrimination, sexual assault, and poor working conditions that sex workers have long been subject to solely due to their employment, as well as the greater risk of sexually transmitted infections that sex workers and clients thereof face,

Emphasising that prosecution of sex work is also unhelpful towards protecting sex workers, as it forces sex workers to work "underground" for fear of prosecution of themselves and/or loss of job, at the expense of their safety and welfare, while also perpetuating stigmatisation of the sex industry,

Identifying the efforts of "Universal STI Counteraction" as ultimately helpful to the protection of sex workers via access to STI testing and curative medications for STIs,

Convinced that further efforts are still needed, however, to specifically protect sex workers and ensure that sex work is safe for employees, consumers, and all others involved, as there are still no resolutions passed tailored to the sex industry,

Enacts the following, subject to relevant past World Assembly resolutions still in force _

  1. Sex work, in this resolution, refers to the performance of sexual acts in exchange for material compensation.

  2. The sex industry shall be a legal field of employment or self-employment in member nations. To that end, no member nation may outlaw or penalise all participation in, provision of employment in, or purchase of sex work, or otherwise impose any restriction specific to the sex industry, except to the minimal extent necessary to protect the welfare of buyers or sellers of sex work, or to enforce World Assembly law. Further, no member nation or entity therein may discriminate against a person for participating in, providing employment in, or purchasing sex work.

  3. All entities providing employment in sex work -- hereinafter "sex work institutions" -- are to offer gratis safe and effective preventive medical products -- including vaccination and barrier contraception -- to any of their sex workers that may be exposed to sexually-transmitted infections in their work in that institution. Member nations are to directly provide such products gratis to self-employed sex workers under their jurisdiction.
    • Each individual employed or self-employed in sex work carrying risk of transmission of the same must use such products so as to minimise risk of either pregnancy of, or transmission of sexually transmitted infections to, a client or that sex worker, as a result of that sex work.

    • Someone who tests positive for a sexually transmitted infection not treated to the point of non-transmissibility may not perform any sex work carrying the risk of transmission of that infection.

    • 3a and 3b each may be waived upon mutual free and informed consent by the client and sex worker, subject to World Assembly law.

  4. The act of coercing a person to provide sexual services or participate in sex work or sexual acts as part of the same, including as a sex worker or consumer of sex work, is hereby prohibited.
    • No entity may employ in sex work, consume sex work from, or sell sex work to, a person without the mental capacity to consent to sexual acts.

    • No person may be trafficked or otherwise moved by force with the intent of forcing that person to provide sexual services or otherwise violating Section 4.

  5. Each sex work institution is to clearly inform all its sex workers of their legal rights and duties in sex work, including those granted by this resolution. Each member nation is to directly inform all self-employed sex workers under its jurisdiction of the same.

  6. Sex workers, sex work clients, and other entities shall have the right to report violations of this resolution, and have them duly investigated, without interference or retaliation from any sex work institution, or member nation or entity therein. To that end, each member nation is to create an impartial means for privately reporting violations of this resolution, and, unless that report is clearly frivolous, promptly investigate each reported violation of this resolution reported through such means.
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May I ask what the reason for the opposition is? (I understand why Comfed's against, hence this is more directed to the other people who have voted against).
 
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Ice Empire:
May I ask what the reason for the opposition is? (In particular Kasto's).
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I already explained it to you elsewhere, but my opposition (though I can't speak for others) is due to this clause:
The sex industry shall be a legal field of employment or self-employment in member nations. To that end, no member nation may outlaw or penalise all participation in, provision of employment in, or purchase of sex work, or otherwise impose any restriction specific to the sex industry, except to the minimal extent necessary to protect the welfare of buyers or sellers of sex work, or to enforce World Assembly law. Further, no member nation or entity therein may discriminate against a person for participating in, providing employment in, or purchasing sex work.
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Against, although not for the reasons that others seem to have (the deference to sovereignty can only extend so far; the material wellbeing and safety of people in an industry that cannot be effectively stopped through outlawing it must supersede any one nation's right to prohibit the relevant conduct). Section 3(3) is not only incorrectly worded (there are no sections labeled 3a and 3b), but more importantly, it legalizes voluntary transmission of STDs. That would place immense strain on national health systems, and offers no countervailing benefit whatsoever.
 
GreaterKoboldia:
Section 3(3) is not only incorrectly worded (there are no sections labeled 3a and 3b), but more importantly, it legalizes voluntary transmission of STDs. That would place immense strain on national health systems, and offers no countervailing benefit whatsoever.
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The gameside proposal has said sections labeled "3a" and "3b".

Also, withdrawn regardless -- once again -- to remove 3c. However, I fail to see why this is a problem -- voluntary transmission of STIs is usually legal in a non-sex work context.
 
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