Exellent written and spoken English and native Hungarian are required. Knowledge of Russian or other Slavic languages is a plus.
Sex workers are encouraged to apply!
Please find the Terms of reference here.
Deadline for application is March 28th, 2016.
We want to point out that discriminatory laws, regulations and policies around sex work, including those that give a sense of impunity to perpetrators of violence against sex workers – need to be traded for supportive and stigma-free environments that allow sex workers to work safe and free of violence, have access to crucial health care services, and live life in freedom and dignity.
Sex Workers Rights advocacy Network (SWAN) mourns the untimely death of our dear friend and colleague Laura Feer.
Laura was a community leader, an activist, borderless and free-spirited. She was an initiator, founder and driving force of STAR, the first sex workers led group in South East Europe and the first one who believed that positive changes are really possible.
Laura Feer died in Toronto, Canada 29th February, 2016.
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.
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Macedonia
STAR-STAR organized Red Umbrella March in Skopje. Sex workers, strippers, hot line operators, escort girls and guys, users of their services, human rights activists and their supporters marched under the banner “Stigma kills”. The march was dedicated to the global solidarity with sex workers, demanding better working conditions and a world without violence, and it aimed to attract attention to a big number of sex workers in Macedonia and stigma and discrimination they face.
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 participants from Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia came to exchange their experience about activism, community mobilization, and to define main problems/issues that sex workers are facing in their countries. They also came to gain new ideas on how to do activism, write messages, use social media in community mobilization and to learn about the global sex workers movement.
Elena Tsukerman was the founder, Board Chairwoman and later the Executive Director of sex workers led Charitable Organization “All-Ukrainian League “Legalife”, and active member of SWAN. We knew her as a passionate activist for the rights of sex workers and persons who use drugs, as well as a community leader, organizer, trainer, speaker, editor and journalist.
We all lost an extraordinary advocate and activist, and a friend whose company will be missed forever.
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.