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Uno sguardo sulla situazione delle persone sex worker in Argentina

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Una panoramica sulla situazione delle persone sex worker in Argentina, sulle lotte in corso e sui problemi che affrontano dalla voce di Elena Reynaga dell’AMMAR – Asociación de Mujeres Meretrics de la Argentina intervistata da Graeme Green su Metro il 29 novembre 2011.

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‘I’m not ashamed. I’m truly proud of what I do,’ says Elena Reynaga. ‘Through my work, I created possibilities for my children, opportunities I didn’t have myself. My children went to school, got jobs. I have nothing to be ashamed of.’

Reynaga was a prostitute who spent the 30 years since she turned 19 working in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. She has now left the streets behind to lead Redtrasex (Latin American and Caribbean Sex Workers Network) and Ammar (Female Sex Workers’ Association of Argentina).

A non-profit organisation, Ammar is run as an unofficial trade union, helping women on issues such as health, education, safety and human rights.
Having sex for money is legal in Argentina but the group is preparing a bill to send to their parliament early next year calling for sex work to be classified as official work and for the organisation to be recognised as an official trade union.

‘We consider ourselves working people,’ says Reynaga. ‘We want to get all the rights that people who work enjoy: the right to have a pension, social security…’ Read the rest of this entry »