<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Members of the city-based NGO Durbar Mahila Samanway Committee - a leading body of sex workers in the state - and Association of Trans-gender in Bengal Wednesday filed a petition to the WBHRC detailing the complaint.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   A commission official said both bodies complained they felt &quot;insulted and humiliated&quot; at the remarks and sought the commission&#39;s intervention.</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <p class="caption">   <img alt="West Bengal sex workers" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/jan/sex-workers.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 333px;" /><br />   <strong>Sex workers in West Bengal. Photo: AFP</strong></p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The commission has assured to look into the matter.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   On Jan 28, a senior All India Forward Bloc leader had termed the Trinamool &quot;opportunistic&quot; and compared its behaviour to that of a sex worker.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Hitting back, a Trinamool minister had then dubbed the Forward Bloc as a trans-gender for its inability to protest against the atrocities of the CPI-M during the Left Front rule.</div>  

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Angry over disparaging comments made by some politicians recently directed at them, representative bodies of sex workers and trans-genders have approached the West Bengal Human Rights Commissions (WBHRC) seeking its intervention as their "human rights were violated"

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