How will young sex workers benefit from new development goals?
Key Correspondents - "As world leaders adopt new sustainable development goals this week, whether young marginalised people will really benefit from the gender equality and health goals remains to be seen.
Currently, for young women working in Malawi’s sex industry, the legal system creates barriers to health services and leads to discrimination. (...)
Annie says the biggest challenge she and her friends face while working is not the clients or cold nights, as many people might think, but the authorities.
“The police arrest us when they see us loitering beyond nine o’clock in the evening. They say it’s against the law. Sometimes we spend up to a month in a cell when we don’t have money to pay for bail.” (Photo © Nell Freeman for International HIV/AIDS Alliance)