Sex Workers, Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation in Ethiopia
- Although the criminal law against adult sex work is not enforced, it does exacerbate poverty by depriving sex workers of the civil rights and access to services they need.
- To remove structural determinants of poverty the law should be removed to make way for sex workers to claim rights under labour and other administrative legal provisions and to benefit from antidiscrimination and other human rights law.
- The inclusion of sex workers in Ethiopia’s Social Protection Policy should be recognised and applauded.
- All adult women born in Ethiopia who sell sex