S*x workers are now entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance, and pension in Belgium, following a new law.
The law also gave the sex workers the opportunity to go on maternity leave and sick days.
The development comes just two years after sex work was decriminalised in the country.
The decision to change the law followed the result of months of protests in 2022, prompted by the lack of state support during the Covid pandemic.
The protests in support for labour laws for sex workers followed the Covid pandemic.
Many sex workers said the new law would improve their lives.
One of the sex workers in Belgium, simply identified as Sophine, said the new law will give the opportunity to get paid and cater to her family needs.
“I had to work while I was nine months pregnant. I was having sex with clients one week before giving birth,” she told the BBC.
A researcher at Human Rights Watch, Erin Kilbride, has also praised the new law.
Kilbride said every country needed to be moving in the new direction.
“This is radical, and it’s the best step we have seen anywhere in the world so far,” he added.
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