Nairobi sex workers demand recognition

Nairobi sex workers have demonstrated outside City Hall protesting harassment by City Council askaris.

Decked out in red fitting-shirts with covered faces they shouted: “Sex workers’ rights are human rights” as they demanded an end to discrimination.

Daughtie Ogutu, a founding member of the Kenya Sex Workers Alliance said that she had experienced firsthand harassment by the ruthless city askaris.

They also demanded an end to discrimination that they face in healthcare facilities and while seeking access to legal aid.

Ogutu said: “It is time that the society stops its hypocrisy on sex workers; they are human beings and have human rights. We are demanding that the government should (sic) recognise our rights.”