Linked with ‘From the International AIDS Conference IAC‘, with Zi Teng – Hong Kong, and with ‘International Network for Economic Social & Cultural Rights‘.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: “Sex work is work.”.
Yim Yuet Lin joined the workforce in Hong Kong with only a few years of basic school education. In the late 70s, Yim started to be involved in the labor movement. She saw how workers were exploited and she herself faced unjust treatment from her employer. In 1996, Yim and three other friends founded Ziteng (“Chinese wisteria”), a sex workers’ concern group, which aims to provide support to sex workers.Yim Yuet Lin is a founding member of Ziteng (meaning “Chinese wisteria”), a sex workers concern group in Hong Kong. Since it was established in 1996, Yim has been working with this non-governmental organization, both in good times and in bad. Of the two sex workers’ organizations in Hong Kong, Ziteng is the more vocal one, particularly on issues relating to decriminalization of sex work and police abuses and injustices.
Yuet Lin Yim – Hong Kong
She works for Ziteng (Chinese wisteria), a Hong Kong-based sex worker’s interest group fighting for the destigmatization and decriminalization of sex.