The Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center (SWP) and the global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), used the event to re-focus some of the media coverage away from the sensationalistic, and towards the fact that, as head of USAID, Tobias was the principal enforcer of the Anti-Prostitution Pledge. SWP and NSWP successfully highlighted the negative impact the Anti- Prostitution Pledge has had on sex workers around the world – an angle that the press would probably not have picked up otherwise.

Here are links to some of the key media coverage:

Press Release from UJC and NSWP: Advocates Criticize Moralistic Policy that Randall Tobias Enforced, PDF here.

Listen to the same UJC and NSWP press release on Blip.TV: here

ABC News, Good Morning America (video): The „D.C. Madam” Heads to Court With Secret List of Prominent Clients, here

Salon.com: The Anti-Prostitution Pledge, here

Bloomberg: Sex Isn't the Only Thing for Sale in Washington, here

National Public Radio : Patron of D.C. Madam Accused of Hypocrisy, here

The coverage also featured a 13-minute video that was produced by the NSWP, Taking the Pledge, which includes interviews with advocates whose groups have negatively been affected by the Pledge. You can watch the video at www.sexworkersproject.org or here.