Civil society groups representing key affected populations call on the Bangladeshi government to address this situation quickly or they will be forced to boycott ICAAP 2015.

Sex worker organisations are currently writing to ASAP to urge them to stop all negotiations with the Bangladeshi Government until this issue is resolved. Sex workers and civil society will boycott ICAAP 2015 unless the livelihood of the sex workers is protected and safe housing is found for evicted Tangail Bangladeshi sex workers. The evictions have left sex workers and their children displaced and without safe housing.

Speaking from the 20th international AIDS Conference held in Melbourne, Australia, global, regional and national sex worker groups announced "Unless the Bangladesh government takes immediate action and provides the sex workers and their families with safe housing and protects thier livelihood we will call for a regional boycott the ICAAP 2015" said Ruth Morgan Thomas, NSWP, Global Network of Sex work Projects.

"If the international HIV community ignores the rights of these sex workers and children we are implicit and will fail in our task to address HIV." Said Tracey Tully, Co-coordinator of APNSW, Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers

"While we understand the importance of civil society representation at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) we cannot stay idle while sex workers in Bangladesh are left without homes or workplaces and with increased vulnerability to HIV." said Janelle Fawkes, CEO, Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association.