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April 4, 2019

SWAN is Hiring: Administrative Assistant

The Administrative Assistant will be working under the direct supervision of the Operations Manager and is responsible for managing SWAN office procedures and other tasks assigned by Operations Manager and Executive Director.

The Administrative Assistance must be a citizen or resident of Hungary. The Administrative Assistant should be committed to advance SWAN goals and mission and respect confidentiality of SWAN members.

The deadline is Tuesday, 25th June, 2019

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April 3, 2019

ILGA World Takes Position in Favour of Decriminalisation of Sex Work in Wellington

During this historical event where ILGA World also celebrated its 40th anniversary, many sex workers rights activists worked together to pass the resolution that recognises the decriminalisation of sex work as the best practice for sex workers’ safety. In the final day of the ILGA World Conference, ‘LGBTI activists worldwide resolved to address the stigmatisation of sex workers, including in the LGBTI movement. The resolution passed in the closing session of the conference and opposes all forms of criminalisation and legal oppression of sex workers.

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March 15, 2019

CEDAW shadow report on the status of sex workers in Serbia

The report highlights the violence and rights violations experienced by sex workers since 2016 when Serbian government criminalised both selling and purchase of sexual services. The twice longer prison sentences and administrative fines which go up to 1300 EUR impose huge financial burden to sex workers, and influence work and health choices. It also shows that criminalisation of clients, actually increased violence perpetrated by violent individuals acting as clients.

During the Oral Statement given in front of CEDAW Committee, Kristina from Equal Rights clarified:

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March 12, 2019

SWAN Resource: To See Our Power

In 2007, I had the great honour of being asked by the Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP) of the Open Society Institute (OSI) to work for SWAN. At my first SWAN meeting, in Kiev in the spring of 2007, I began interviewing sex workers from around the region about their experiences; the injustices they were facing, the nascent movements they were building, and the every day reality of being a sex worker.

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March 4, 2019

New Interactive Map of Global Sex Work Laws

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.

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February 27, 2019

ICRSE, SWAN and Red Umbrella Athens/Positive Voice Organised Community Mobilisation Training in Greece

ICRSE, SWAN and Red Umbrella Athens/Positive Voice, organised a 3-day community mobilisation training between 5-7 February, in Athens.

The goal of this training was to empower the sex workers’ movement in Greece, to advocate for the decriminalisation of sex work by highlighting the problematic nature of the Swedish model and help develop a strong network of allies against it.

The training provided a comprehensive introduction to the different directions legal frameworks have on sex work, their impact on sex workers lives, advocacy examples of the sex worker’s rights movement

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February 6, 2019

SWAN Organises a Workshop in Bishkek: Monitoring the Roll-out of the SWIT and Meaningful Involvement of Sex Workers

Between the 14-18 of January 2019, SWAN and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) co-organised a workshop in Bishkek on Introduction to Monitoring the roll-out of the SWIT and meaningful involvement of sex workers.

The day before the workshop, agenda for the following 4 days was developed by the coordinator of the national sex worker led organisation Tais Plus, SWAN and NSWP staff. Stakeholders were identified and invited to be interviewed.

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January 14, 2019

SWAN publishes its new Strategic Plan for 2018-2022

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.

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December 24, 2018

SWAN members marked the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

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.
In 2018 as in previous years in our region sex workers faced high levels of discrimination, stigma and violence. Lack of laws that could protect sex workers and the systematic criminalisation of sex work also increased the vulnerability of sex workers to violence.

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