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 […]
After its introduction by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, the Sex Worker Pride day becomes the fourth annual key date of the sex workers rights movement. Globally sex workers face many challenges in day to day life. We are being marginalised, stigmatised and stripped from our rights. Our voices are often ignored but we never stop pursuing the rights we desperately need.
In the first day, the participants discussed the last year’s Global Fund activities and shared their experiences around the challenges they faced as well as the strategies they used to overcome any issues. Second day of the meeting was dedicated to the process of country transitioning and sustainability of rights-based community-led sex work programming, level of inclusion of sex workers in countries transition planning and processes.
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.
The information in the map reflects legislation (as of 31 December 2018) that exists in relation to sex work, rather than how laws are enforced or the impact they have on sex workers.
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.
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.
This report presents the key activities led by or including sex workers at AIDS2018 and explore some of the key thematic issues of the conference.
The issues faced by sex workers vary from region to region. These differences are due to different laws, social and cultural contexts, but one common issue faced by all sex workers is their vulnerability to and experience of violence.
The issues faced by sex workers vary from region to region. These differences are due to different laws, social and cultural contexts, but one common issue faced by all sex workers is their vulnerability to and experience of violence.