A glossary was produced by the regional networks of communities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia with the invitation of UNAIDS to develop a list of key Russian-language terms related to community leadership in response to the HIV epidemic. SWAN programme officer Kristina Mahnicheva and activist Shahnaz Islamova from SWAN member organisation Tais Plus were […]
Statement of Eastern Europe and Central Asia regional community networks to the United National General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS on key priorities in HIV and AIDS response The Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS determines the directions of global and national policies, and the ways people and communities are able to […]
SWAN member Tais Plus from Kyrgyzstan come out with a new design of Sex Worker Implementation Tool (SWIT). Over the years Tais Plus has found creative ways of promoting SWIT within sex workers in Kyrgyzstan, including a mini-theatre presenting all six chapters SWIT. This year SWIT was turn into a calendar. The calendar is available […]
SWAN Programme Officers, with regional experts and activists from Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan as co-facilitators, organised the online training series on SWIT. Each webinar focused on different parts of SWIT such as Community Empowerment, Violence, Condom and Lubricant Programming, Community-led Services, Program Management and Organisational Capacity Building and 15 Activists were guided through chapter by chapter […]
COVID-19 continues to spread around the world and its devastating effects are becoming more visible especially within homeless people, drug users, people with disability, undocumented migrants, sex workers and many others. Sex workers have always been in intersection with the most marginalised communities and faced discrimination and violence from police and state actors. Now as this health crisis is expanding, what we are seeing is an immense increase of vulnerability and deterioration of conditions and safety.
On the occasion of World AIDS Day 2019, Sex Workers Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN) and International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) commemorate those who have died from AIDS related illnesses and take this opportunity to join the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), UNAIDS, READ MORE
The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), MPACT and INPUD are organising an alternative community-led conference in 2020 in Mexico between July 6-8. The conference will run concurrently with the first half of the international AIDS conference and it is organised as a safe alternative for individuals who cannot or will not enter the U.S.
The International AIDS Conference 2018 is takeing place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, between 23rd and 27th July 2018.
On 11 of August 2015 in Dublin at the International Council Meeting, Amnesty International voted to adopt policy that would decriminalize all aspects of adult consensual sex work, while still classifying coercion into sex work or having sex with a minor as a major human rights violation.
As stated in the UNAIDS strategy, stigma and discrimination against key populations is a major contributor to high HIV prevalence among them and linked to lower access to health care and housing.
SWAN members Silver Rose (Russia) and Legalife (Ukraine) reported that their governments ignore all international treaties and guidelines. In addition, migrants’ rights in Russia are violated and censorship makes advocacy difficult.