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Draft Law on Legalization of Sex Work in Ukraine: Everything about Us but without Us

Recently, Ukrainian and Russian media have once again started discussing sex work related issues in Ukraine due to the fact that the MP from the “Self-Help” party Andrey Nemirovskiy registered a draft law “On regulation prostitution and sex establishments’ activity” (№3139) in the Supreme Council of Ukraine. This law has caused a great resonance in society, and caused a debate on legalization of sex work in Ukraine.

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SHAGI (Steps) Foundation organized and conducted a training with sex workers

The topics of the training were “Prevention of HIV and STIs among Sex Workers” and “Fundamentals of Counseling and a Non-medical service”. During the training the participants were learning to carry out Pre-test and After-test counseling, to motivate project’s customers to become project’s partners, to prevent HIV infection and STIs taking into account specifics of sex workers as people with increased risk of getting infected. The participants of the training were doctors, psychologists, sex workers, lawyers, social workers (including representatives of governmental agencies).

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15th Anniversary of SZEXE

The main goal of the event was to remind the local government of the 8th district of Budapest that is the main contributor to the law on tolerance zones for sex workers, as well as to remind the general public that although the local governments are required by the law to designate tolerance zones in their areas, they omit to do so, therefore thousands of sex workers are left in a legally vulnerable position.

The march

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A Guide for Sex Workers Human Rights Defenders

In this booklet you can find among others:

– different models of human rights documenting;

– tips on interviewing victim or witness of human rights violation;

– tips for writing Human Rights Submissions and Letters;

– how to report sex-workers’ rights abuses through UN Special Procedures;

– helpful links for Human Rights Submissions;

– useful contacts of Human Rights Groups;

– some more useful info for your documenting and advocacy work;

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SZEXE: 15 Years of Resistance

The Association of Hungarian Sex Workers (SZEXE) was founded in 2000 by sex workers and allies in order to step up together for the human rights of sex workers and improve their social and health situation. Since the very beginning, our partners, sex worker colleagues and the community have been relentlessly working to erase discrimination and violence from sex workers’ everyday experiences. In doing so, they resisted all attempts that aimed to exclude, exploit and stigmatize sex workers.

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REPORTING FROM THE SHADOWS: Using CEDAW to Advocate for Sex Workers’ Rights in Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia

This booklet is aimed at sex workers, sex worker groups, organizations working with sex workers, women’s groups, drug users’ groups, LGBT groups, human rights organizations and other allies who want to know more about advancing recognition for sex workers’ rights through the United Nations human rights bodies, and in particular, through the Committee on the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). We are sharing our experiences in the hope that it proves as helpful as learning from others’ experiences was to us.

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