Abstract
This paper highlights the impact of raid, rescue, and rehabilitation schemes on HIV programmes. It uses a case study of Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP), a sex workers collective in Sangli, India, to explore the impact of anti-trafficking efforts on HIV prevention programmes. The paper begins with an overview of the anti-trafficking movement emerging out of the United States. This U.S. based antitrafficking movement works in partnership with domestic Indian antitrafficking organisations to raid brothels to “rescue and rehabilitate” sex workers. Contrary to the purported goal of assisting women, the anti-trafficking projects that employ a raid, rescue, and rehabilitate model often undermine HIV projects at the local level, in turn causing harm to women and girls. We examine the experience of one peer educator in Sangli to demonstrate and highlight some of the negative consequences of these anti-trafficking efforts on HIV prevention programmes.
Disciplines
Human Rights Law | Sexuality and the Law | Women
Publication Date
6-2012
Permanent URL
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20002549
Recommended Citation
Anti-Trafficking Review, Issue 1, pp. 149-168, June 2012.
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Notes
Originally published in Anti-Trafficking Review, Issue 1, pp. 149-168, June 2012.