Thai sex workers may be given legal status
• Sex Workers
Thailand considers legalizing prostitution which could make life better for its many sex workers.
Legalisation would give the estimated 200,000 sex workers access to social services, health care and protection from abuse while exposing corruption among the industry's gatekeepers - police, politicians and business owners, proponents say.
Chantawipa Apisuk, who runs Empower, an educational organisation promoting rights of sex workers, says as long as prostitution is illegal, "the mafia will be the employer and ... the employees will be sex slaves".
