On the 20 March 2018, in celebration of Human Rights Day, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Sonke Gender Justice and Sex Worker Education & Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) launched a research report titled “The Policing of Sex Work in South Africa: A research report on the human rights challenges across two South African Provinces”.
The research documents the contemporary policing experiences of sex workers in Gauteng and Mpumalanga from a grass roots perspective. The research was commissioned by Sonke Gender Justice and SWEAT following high volumes of sex worker complaints of human rights violations experienced during policing and security operations.
