Action For Reach Out

Action for REACH OUT (Rights of Entertainers in Asia to Combat Human Oppression and Unjust Treatment) was officially established in 1993. It is the first sex workers’support group in Hong Kong, a non-governmental and a charitable organisation. AFRO endeavours to offer adequate services and support to women working in the sex industry in Hong Kong, including those who are from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Thailand, and the Philippines etc. AFRO is a member of the Hong Kong Women's Coalition on Equal Opportunities and the Hong Kong Coalition of AIDS Service Organizations.

Vision and Mission

AFRO believes that for the advancement of society, every individual's personal freedom, dignity and basic human rights should be protected and promoted. Society should embrace diversity and facilitate the efforts of all sectors to bring about necessary social change to enable all persons to enjoy their human rights.

Embracing these beliefs, AFRO works for the social inclusion of female sex workers, as one of the most marginalised and discriminated groups in Hong Kong, so that they can enjoy equal treatment and access to all legal and health rights. We hold that decriminalisations and recognition of women in prostitution as workers in the sex industry is an essential condition for their ability to stand up and speak out on their own behalf as well as to participate in social and political affairs.

AFRO believes that every individual, no matter what her educational, social, religious and occupational background is, has the right:

- to fair and just treatment under the law.
- to be free from violence and coercion.
- to safeguard her/his own health.
- not to be used as a commodity. (Sex worker is a service provider but not a commodity.)
- to have the terms of contract honoured and not changed without her/his consent.