Recognition Sex Workers As A Profession

Question 1

Which article provides discretionary power to the Supreme Court as it..?

Answer 1

Article 142

Question 2

Which yearNational Human Rights Commission (NHRC)recognised sex workers as informal workers..?

Answer 2

2020
NHRC eastblished in 12oct 1993

Question 3

declares thatno person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty..?

Answer 3

Article 21

Question 4

Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.

Answer 4

The legislation governing sex work in India is theImmoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.

Question 5

Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Children Act was enacted..?

Answer 5

1956

Question 6

Sex workers related case name..?

Answer 6

(1) Justice Verma Commission (2012-13)
The Justice Verma Commission had alsoacknowledged that there is a distinction between women who are traffickedfor commercial sexual exploitation and adult, consenting women who are in sex work of their own volition.

(2) Budhadev Karmaskar Vs State of West Bengal (2011) Case:

The Supreme Court, in Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal (2011), opined that sex workers have a right to dignity.

Question 7

Punishment for.. Sex workers

Answer 7

Seducing or Soliciting for prostitution under the unamended Act for first conviction attracts a punishment ofimprisonment for six months or fine of rupees five hundred and for the second conviction, imprisonment upto one year or with fine of rupees five hundred.

It should be pointed out thatsex work or prostitution is not illegal in India..