End Prosecution Of Sex Workers And Protect Female Rights Defenders, UN Says

[snoop1130]

End Prosecution Of Sex Workers And Protect Female Rights Defenders, UN Says

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Officers from the Ministry of Affairs raid the Nataree brothel on Bangkok’s Ratchadaphisek Road in June 2016.

 

BANGKOK — Thailand should stop prosecuting female sex workers, improve conditions in women’s priso­ns and take steps to protect female human rights defend­ers, the UN body in charge­ of promoting gender ­equality has suggested.

 

Those issues were among a host of recommendations from the UN Committee on the E­limination of Discrim­ination Against Women­, or CEDAW, in its first such review of women’s status in the kingdom in over a decade.

 

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[z42]

Overdue and absolutely a must. But will Thailand listen to reason and logic? Fat chance sadly

[YetAnother]

25 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand should stop prosecuting female sex workers, improve conditions in women’s priso­ns and take steps to protect female human rights defend­ers, the UN body in charge­ of promoting gender ­equality has suggested

that and 25 cents will get you a 25 cent cup of coffee

[hansnl]

It would be nice if Thailand followed up on this report.

But, the advise to spruce up the prisons for women?

The prisons for men are more in need of sprucing up.

In fact, the whole prison system needs a lot of sprucing up.

[DM07]

There is no prostitution in Thailand!

So what is there to protect?

[colinneil]

Those silly people at the UN, they have got things wrong.

Mr Prayut is on record, stating that there is no prostitution here..

[anon789561]

if they are promoting gender equality why have they suggested to improve conditions in womens jails only.

[Stargeezr]

And there is not human trafficking either  just our foreign imaginations.

Geezer