About SWAN

The Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network is a network of civil society organizations engaged in advocating the Human Rights of the sex workers in Central and Eastern Europe, CIS and South-East Europe. 

Publisher: Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), http://www.tasz.hu/

For the Publisher: Balázs Dénes, HCLU Executive Director

Editor: HCLU Communications and Advocacy Consultant - position open

SWAN Project Coordinator and Editorial Assistant: Aliya Rakhmetova

Sex Worker Report Editor: Anna-Louise Crago, SHARP

We thank Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP) of the Open Society Institute, www.soros.org  for their financial support.

The authors’ views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Open Society Institute’s Sexual Health and Rights Program or those of the Open Society Institute.

Founding Principles of the SWAN Network
The Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN) wishes to approach sex work issues in accordance with the following basic principles developped by the Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network (CEEHRN). More

SWAN Members
Click here to view the full list of SWAN Member-organizations.

Please send your opinions, comments, and questions to sexwork@tasz.hu.

Quotes of the Month

Seeing the police members at the welcoming event together with sex workers activists and supporters, hearing the fact that 90% of reported cases between 2005 -2009 are solved and perpetrators are convicted, and that rape rate over the last year was 40%, was a real inspiration and hope that in a period of time, trough a committed work we can get there too..
--- Marija Tosheva (HOPS, Macedonia) about IHRA-2010, Liverpool.

Picture of the Month

Odyseus, Slovakia 2009





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