A non governmental organisation ( NGO),  Greater Women Initiative for Health and Rights (GWIHR), has moved against sexual promiscuity by promoting  female gender rights in the society.
   
The group has also sensitised sex workers on decent means of livelihood by training them to acquire skills and empowering them with start-up capital to practice.
  
GWIHR’s  Executive Director and Chief Resource person, Mrs. Josephine Aseme, disclosed this during one day seminar on sexism sensitisation meeting for sex workers and the media, in  Umuahia, the Abia State capital.
   
According to her, GWIHR partners with the French Embassy and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to achieve its objective.
    
She said GWIHR, which is presently in  Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers states,  works towards addressing sexual promiscuity and enforcement of female gender rights,  including doing the needful that could lure away persons from sex work to decent means of livelihoods.
   
The Executive Director, who expressed concern over the negative impact of inappropriate sex activities,  increasing violence and stigma against sex workers, called on government and the society to reverse this scenario.
 
“The media should champion the course changing of this misconception about sex workers and sex workers should be meaningfully involved in all stages of formulation and reviewing of sex work-related policies, academic and scientific researches,” she added.
 
Some of the female participants that spoke during the seminar, acknowledged the role being played by GWIHR to change the scenario and said some of them have benefited from GWIHR activities.
   
They stressed that the absence of employment and lack of capital to venture into business and or learn skills is luring young people into commercial sex work and occupation.