Stakeholder Summary >> Rwanda, Review Documentation, 37th Session, January 2021

While welcoming the decriminalization of sex work, JS5 stated that the national policy against delinquency, which cites, amongst others, prostitution as a delinquent conduct, fuelled the stigma towards female sex workers. It was concerned about the administrative detention of sex workers. JS8 stated that the programme introduced to provide income generating activities to help sex workers leave the industry, presumed that sex workers can be persuaded to adopt alternative ways of providing for themselves and their families. [Para 67]