Source: Kemal Ördek’s Facebook Page, 2015.
It’s so difficult to write this when my body, my soul aches.
All I want to do is scream. I want people to hear me and then I want to hide in a corner, break away from this world.
How many times does a person cry after all that happened? How many times does a person shake and shiver when they think of what happened?
Website anuntul.ro is prosecuted in a case investigated by prosecutors from District 1 Court, Bucharest.
The action “Zone free from hatred” was organized for the third year in a row, and apart from its main goal to show the position of LGBT people in Serbia, it also aimed to strengthen solidarity with other social groups and to point out the existing problems in the whole society.The action was jointly organized by Gay straight alliance, Women in Black, Gay Lesbian Info Center, Association “Rainbow” Šabac, Center for Queer Studies, Association “Hestia”, Committee for Human Rights and Antifascist federation of Serbia.There were about 100 – 150 participants, including politicians, who marched fr
There were about eighty organizations representing a wide range of activities at the festival. The organizer of the festival is the EEA/Norway Grants NGO Fund that supports a number of NGOs in Hungary.
There were 15 participants from 7 regions of Ukraine and 1 participant from Georgia, as well as Andrey Protopopov from UNFPA. Mr. Kossuhin from the UN was the trainer. The purpose of the workshop is to improve capacities of sex workers especially outreach workers and community led organisations of sex workers to address STI issues in line with SWIT (Implementing comprehensive HIV/STI programmes with sex workers).
Natalia Kopaliani from Women for Freedom informed that the event took place on June 11-12, 2015 in Tbilisi. According to her, 30 participants attended the training: community members, gynecologist, psychologist, doctor from Immunology Center and representatives of NGO Tanadgoma.
Olívia Strelková (25) works for the civic association Odysseus, which aims to help people who inject drugs and sex workers. She studied law, and today she is the coordinator of Red umbrella program under which the project “End of violence, time for rights” operates. She tries to improve the lives and work of women employed in the sex industry. Photo N – Tomas Benedikovič
The demonstration was organized by the Sex Workers’ Union (STRASS) and the association of Chinese prostitutes “Steel Roses”. The protesters voiced their opposition to the bill that will be discussed on June 12 in the second reading at the Assembly, and should confirm the principle to punish those who use sex services of a sex worker.
Much has been said on the criminilisation of sex work and how making it illegal simply forces the industry underground, making it more dangerous for the workers. In America, for example, street workers are forced to work in less populated areas to avoid arrest, which makes them more vulnerable to violence.
According to the Ministry of Interior’s report, in 2014 10,538 people were detained under the Article 6.11 of the Administrative Offenses Code of the Russian Federation (prostitution), which is 21.6% more than in 2013 according to the newspaper “Izvestia”. The crime rate in this area increased by 42.3%. The number of criminal cases increased to 387 cases under the Article 240 of the Criminal Code (incitement to prostitution).