COVID-19 promotes claim to legalize prostitution in Thailand
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Bangkok, May 15 (EFE/EPA).- The closure of the red light districts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has left thousands of sex workers in Thailand, infamous for its sex tourism, without shelter, food or money with which to support their relatives and has promoted the claim to legalize the sector.
On a narrow street in the historic chaste of Bangkok, where women in their 40s practice the profession, a large group of sex workers awaited the arrival of aid delivery by a local NGO. (Camera: NOEL CABALLERO/DIEGO AZUBEL).
SOUNDBITES: SURANG JANYAM, DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF SWING (IN THAI-SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH).
On a narrow street in the historic chaste of Bangkok, where women in their 40s practice the profession, a large group of sex workers awaited the arrival of aid delivery by a local NGO. (Camera: NOEL CABALLERO/DIEGO AZUBEL).
SOUNDBITES: SURANG JANYAM, DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF SWING (IN THAI-SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH).