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Main Page > About AFRO
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Action for REACH OUT (Rights of Entertainers in Asia to Combat Human Oppression and Unjust Treatment) was established as a non-government and charitable organization in 1993. We offer services and support to women working in the sex industry in Hong Kong, including those who are from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Thailand, and the Philippines etc.
AFRO is a member of the Hong Kong Women’s Coalition on Equal Opportunities and the Hong Kong Coalition of AIDS Service Organizations. |
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AFRO believes that for the advancement of society, every individual's personal freedom, dignity and basic human rights should be protected and promoted. Society should embrace diversity and facilitate the efforts of all sectors to bring about necessary social change to enable all persons to enjoy their human rights.
Embracing these beliefs, AFRO works for the social inclusion of female sex workers, as one of the most marginalised and discriminated groups in Hong Kong, so that they can enjoy equal treatment and access to all legal and health rights. We hold that decriminalisation and recognition of women in prostitution as workers in the sex industry is an essential condition for their ability to stand up and speak out on their own behalf as well as to participate in social and political affairs.
AFRO believes that every woman, no matter what her educational, social, religious and occupational background is, has the right:
- to fair and just treatment under the law.
- to be free from violence and coercion.
- to safeguard her own health.
- not to be used as a commodity. (Sex worker is a service provider but not a commodity.)
- to have the terms of contract honoured and not changed without her consent.
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