'Very few governments are actually taking positive steps to ensure the inclusion of sex workers in emergency steps that they are taking,' one advocate said.
Onlyand two states in Australia have completely decriminalized sex work, meaning there are no specific criminal penalties for engaging in it. Other Australian states, as well as a few countries such as Germany and the Netherlands, have legalized it, meaning the state regulates sex work and permits it only in certain state-sanctioned ways, with more parameters and policing.of sex work.
In the Netherlands, recently unemployed independent workers are eligible for only about $1,000 a month — those in sex work included, said Nadia van der Linde, coordinator of the Netherlands-based Red Umbrella Fund, which supports sex workers worldwide. Not all sex workers, though, will receive that money. Many people in Amsterdam’s red-light district are migrants who are undocumented or from elsewhere in Europe.
Bangladesh shut down legal brothels on March 20 along with most other businesses in the country, leaving destitute residents with no income. After, the government agreed to provide cash, rice and a rent freeze to women and families living in 12 brothels, Reuters reported. A few weeks later, when Japan announced a new subsidy program to help with child care during the outbreak, the country’s labor minister expressly excluded the adult entertainment and sex industry. Two days later, on April 9, the government
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