Today is Sex Worker Pride day, a day for our community to celebrate our achievements and share stories of sex workers' self-determination while honouring the tireless efforts of colleagues everywhere to secure rights and safety for all sex workers.
Every year, sex workers celebrate 2nd June as International Sex Workers’ Rights’ Day. The day commemorate the occupation of the Church of St. Nizier in Lyon, France on June 2nd, 1975.
The 30th ILGA World conference was held in Aotearoa, New Zealand between 18 to 22 of March, 2019. This year's theme was 'Celebrating the past to liberate the future'
In February 2019, SWAN member Equal Rights from Serbia submitted a shadow report on the status of female sex workers in Serbia to the 72nd CEDAW Session.
Global Network of Sex Work Projects published an interactive map that provides information on laws which criminalise the sale of sexual services, the purchase of sexual services and the facilitation, management or organisation of sex work.
17th of December is marked by sex workers internationally as the International day to End Violence against Sex Workers to raise awareness of the violence against sex workers worldwide, demand justice for the human rights violations sex workers face and to remember the lives of loved ones.
Between 18-19th of November, SWAN provided technical assistance to Woman for Freedom in Georgia, for their 2-day advocacy planning meeting with their members.
Between 23rd and 27th July 2018, more than 120 sex workers from more than 25 countries attended the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS2018) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The bi-annual International AIDS Conferences are the largest global gathering of HIV academics, implementers, policy makers, people living with HIV and those most affected by HIV, including sex workers.
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SWAN and activists Natalia Isaieva and Elena Fiskova from Legalife Ukraine organised a 4 day-long training in Balti, Moldova between 24-27th of October for service providers and sex workers with the financial support of UNFPA. The training was organised in the frame of the Fast track HIV/TB regional project (Cities project).
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