The commemoration dates back to 2003, when it was first organized, originally to remember the victims of an American serial killer who singled out sex workers and teenage runaway girls and killed them. It has since become an international event, with more activists and organizations joining every year, as sex workers face similar, institutionalized abuse, violence and discrimination globally.

2009 marks the 61st anniversary of the acceptance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. The aim of Human Rights Day is to raise awareness of the need to end all forms of discrimination.

Ever since its inception in 1988, the focus of the World AIDS Day campaign has been to raise money, increase awareness, fight prejudice and improve education. The 2009 World AIDS Day theme is 'Universal Access and Human Rights'. The key slogans adopted for 2009 are: I am accepted. I am safe. I am getting treatment. I am well. I am living my rights.

This conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 18 to 23 July 2010. Even though the date seems to be far from now it is important to remember that the registration and abstract and scholarship application submissions start in 2009!

The organizers believe that this conference will be an important event as it coincides with “the deadline by which world leaders have committed to ensuring universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support”. This conference will give an opportunity to analyse and discuss what has been achieved and what still needs to be done to achieve the goals. The conference plans to have about 25,000 participants and 2,500 media in attendance.

Advocates, service providers, researchers, artists and all others working for the health and human rights of men who have sex with men are invited to attend the bi-annual MSM Pre-Conference immediately preceding the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, 2010.

The conference theme for 2010 is ‘Harm Reduction: The Next Generation’ and will be held in Liverpool, England from the 25th to the 29th of April.

This conference will be held in Salzburg, Austria, from the 12th to the 14th of March 2010. As part of the Probing the Boundaries research project, it aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore topics which are innovative and exciting.

San Francisco (San Mateo), California USA will host this conference from November 12th to the 15th 2009. The conference examines dimensions and dynamics of "The OTHER" on individual and group levels, and considers how enemy identity is formed, perpetuated, and manipulated - including fear-based belief systems, negative stereotypes, projection, prejudice, polarization, and scapegoating.

The UK Network of Sex Work Projects annual conference will take place in Manchester UK on the 22^nd of October 2009.

The conference location will be the University of Toledo in Ohio USA from the 1^st to the 2^nd of October 2009. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in an effort to lay the groundwork for future collaborative research, advocacy, and program development.