National Human Rights Commission Chief urges the need to legalize prostitution

Former CBI director and NHRC director-general D R Karthikeyan has stressed the need to legalise prostitution to improve the quality of life of sex workers whom he described as ‘the most exploited section of society.’

It was social and economic pressures that forced women into prostitution. Prostitution would continue to exist and the best that the State could do was to regulate it. Prostitutes live in inhuman conditions without access to basic services, particularly medical facilities.