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December 9, 2015

Nataliya Zholnerova: “People Do not Die from AIDS for Long Now”

According to statistics, about 25 thousand people were diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus in Kazakhstan. But on the eve of the World AIDS Day, let’s not talk about the numbers, because the exact number of people living with HIV cannot be stated by any medical facility. There is an endeavor to try to understand how they live with the diagnosis, which for most of us sounds like a sentence. And what kind of help they can expect.

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December 5, 2015

SWAN Members Commemorate World AIDS Day

MACEDONIA

STAR-STAR organized:

  • Group Community workshop on HIV and STI with  female sex workers;
  • Group Community workshop on HIV and STI with male and transgender sex workers;
  • Mobile HIV testing.

STAR-STAR also supported supported and participated in the auction’s event organized by ‘Stronger Together’ – community group of people living with HIV.

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December 3, 2015

Attacks against transgender women continue in Turkey

Alev, a transgender woman was stabbed in her heart by a man who approached her as a client in the street where she was working, Pembe Hayat reports.

Alev, who was a mother of one child, and whose occupation was sex worker in Avcilar district of Istanbul lost her life after transphobic hate crime committed this evening in Haramidere. The murderer hasn’t been captured by the police at the moment of this publication. Her friends were at the police station waiting for police chief to give a proper explanation.

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November 30, 2015

SWAN statement on World AIDS Day

Sex workers are among the groups of people that are most affected by HIV/AIDS due to:

  • barriers to access health services;
  • lack of negotiation power for safe sex practices, seizure and destruction of sex workers’ condoms, and using or threatening to use their condoms as “evidence of a crime” by police;
  • forced HIV/STI testing by police;
  • attitudes of stigma and discrimination, where those engaging in sex work are marginalized and often subjected to abuse and violence.
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November 25, 2015

Transphobic Hate Crime After Transgender Day Of Remembrance

A friend of deceased Nilay stressed the fact that this transphobic hate crime took place right after 20 November Transgender Day of Remembrance: “The attack took place yesterday after 3pm. Our mutual friend E. talked to Nilay on phone around 3 pm. Nilay said that her client was about to arrive and then she hanged up. Later, we tried to call her again but couldn’t reach. E. got suspicious at night and went to her home. She insistently knocked on the door but there was no answer. She called a locksmith and when they entered the house, they found Nilay’s dead body.

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November 24, 2015

Legal Sex Work for Clients With Disabilities in Czech Republic

Sex work in Czech Republic is not illegal, but organised sex work is prohibited. Despite this the sex industry is widespread.

The sexual assistants signed an ethical code and received training of effective communication about clients needs and desires. They were also instructed in the use of sexual aids and how to establish an appropriate power balance with their customers. They were also trained in leading one-to-one consultations with the relatives of people with disabilities. Experts from Germany and Switzerland were invited to co-facilitate the training.

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October 27, 2015

Authorities in Tajikistan Have Toughened Penalties for Sex Work

Under Tajik law, sex work is not a criminal offense. However, sex workers in Tajikistan are penalised under the Code of Administrative Offences. Article 130 stipulates penalties for sex work in the form of fines. In practice, as stated in Reporting From The Shadows, this article is used by police to target sex workers for extortion under threat of fines, arrest, and detention. Police routinely disclose sex workers’ work in their communities through these interactions.

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October 23, 2015

CA Odyseus Held a Meeting with the Police

„Sex workers have to encounter many problems at their work. However the most common one is violence, whether from customers, passers-by and even from institutions that are supposed to protect their rights. Therefore we decided to focus our project not only on the activities for women working in the sex industry, but also on activities for the police, “said the coordinator of the Red Umbrella Project Olivia Strelkova.

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October 23, 2015

INPUD and NSWP release joint Briefing Paper on Sex Workers Who Use Drugs

Double Criminalisation, Stigma, and Discrimination

The Briefing Paper stresses that sex workers who use drugs face double criminalisation as a result of their drug use and sex work. They also face double stigma, discrimination, social exclusion, and violence, due to both drug-userphobia and sex-workerphobia. Sex workers who use drugs face stigma, discrimination, and violence from the police, health and social care providers, as well as from the community, and their families.

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