{"id":4106,"date":"2014-07-15T18:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2014-07-15T18:01:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:01:28","slug":"botswana-refuses-to-register-sex-workers-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-refuses-to-register-sex-workers-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana refuses to register sex workers\u2019 association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana\u2019s Department of Civil and National Registration has refused to register an association for sex workers, APA learnt here on Tuesday. Sisonke Association Botswana had approached the department seeking to be registered as a welfare organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Sisonke is a national organization run by sex workers and is currently housed under the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV\/AIDS (BONELA).<\/p>\n<p>BONELA executive director Cindy Kelemi said in an interview that the Registrar of Societies has violated sex workers\u2019 right to freedom of association by denying them registration&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.starafrica.com\/news\/botswana-refuses-to-register-sex-workers-association.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana\u2019s Department of Civil and National Registration has refused to register an association for sex workers, APA learnt here on Tuesday. Sisonke Association Botswana had approached the department seeking to be registered as a welfare organisation. Sisonke is a national organization run by sex workers and is currently housed under the Botswana Network on Ethics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,2759,257,2761,2760,254,4693,2762],"class_list":["post-4106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-department-of-civil-and-national-registration","tag-news","tag-sex-workers","tag-sisonke","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-violated-sex-workers-right-to-freedom-of-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}