Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) is a forum of 65,000 sex workers based in West Bengal, India. In the following survey, DMSC aims to measure whether sex workers face greater social, physical, and occupational oppression working within the sex sector than as unpaid workers in the domestic sector.
DMSC is a partner of the Open Society Sexual Health and Rights Project.
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