Campaign highlights: parties in Prague, Skopje and Warsaw

In Skopje: party organized by HOPS, SWAN member from Macedonia: “It was a sex workers’ party, with sex workers in the audience and on the stage, with distribution of sex workers manifesto and red umbrellas to those sex workers who worked on campaign” says Marija from HOPS;


In Prague: Christmas party for sex workers was organized by Bliss without Risk, SWAN member from Czech Republic;


In Warsaw: December 22 dinner was organized by TADA, SWAN member from Poland. Invited were police officials, local politicians, legal and medical experts and academics. “We intend not only to ask our guests at the dinner to sign the petition but also to collect some signatures for us – at police quarter, in the city hall, etc” says Justyna from TADA.

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Quotes of the Month

"We went about it with joy and good humor, if you will, we played on the fact that we were police officers, we negotiated prices by saying: How much is it for the police? Where do you come from? What is your age?"… "Most of the time, we were under the effect of alcohol, under the effect of the group. It was known about and tolerated by the hierarchy."

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One of the seven French police officers

Picture of the Month

Odyseus, Slovakia 2009





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