After its November session, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in their concluding observations draws a recommendation to Russia on protection for female and transgender sex workers. SWAN welcomes CEDAW recommendation 29 (c) for Russia, which holds to revise article 6.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences to decriminalize women in prostitution. […]
Today is June 2, the 46th International Sex Workers’ Day (#ISWD2021). Every year sex workers mark today to celebrate 100 French sex workers occupying Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon in 1975, commonly accepted as the birth of the modern sex workers’ rights movement. French sex workers were protesting the terrible living conditions, criminalised environment and the […]
The SWAN Strategic Plan 2018-2020 outlines the mission, values, goals and strategies of our network.
To develop this strategic plan, SWAN commissioned research among its members and partners to assess its past work, and learn about priorities for future work. Organisations from 12 different countries responded and a total of 124 people were consulted of whom 95 were sex workers. A report on SWAN’s 2014 – 2017 Strategic Plan, was drafted and distributed.