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November 20, 2012

Kyrgyzstan: International organizations are concerned by the bill to penalize sex work

Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID),Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University,Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (SWAN) and Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network in their open letter addressed the President of Kyrgyz Republic and his office to stop the bill and provided reasons why and how such administrative code will change the situation with human rights and health in Kyrgyzstan.

December 21, 2011

SWAN statement for UN Global Commission on HIV and the Law

What is the Global Commission on HIV and the Law (GCHL)?
It is a commission put in place by the UN to study the impact of different laws on HIV-prevention, treatment and care. It also studies the impact of laws on discrimination and violence against people living with HIV or at high-risk of HIV.

The commissioners are a group of highly respected individuals and experts from around the world and include former heads of state, judges and policy experts. They are advised by a committee of technical experts with extensive knowledge about HIV and the law.

December 15, 2011

SWAN News, Issue 29, 2011 (RUS)

От Редактора:

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December 15, 2011

Inteview with Zaneta, Slovakia

Then the time came when my work stopped and I urgently needed to support my children. I was also divorcing for which I also needed money. I started to browse in Avize, a publication where I found an ad that called for a “private girlfriend”. At my age! So I gathered my nerve and went, that’s what I say about that! But when I got there I saw the work that was expected of me. There was an elderly lady, so I picked up my courage and on the first day, went to “work a room”. I found that it is nothing weird. After two weeks it already felt commonplace to ask for money.

December 15, 2011

SWAN at UN Global Commission on HIV and the Law

In the end, Odyseus (Slovakia), SZEXE (Hungary), TAIS PLUS (Kyrgyzstan), Association for Assistance (Russia) and SWAN were accepted to present in front of the commissioners at a regional meeting in Moldova in May, 2011.

How did SWAN prepare?

December 15, 2011

Hungary: Budapest Declaration of the Network of countries with Low HIV prevalence in Central and South-Eastern Europe

The general conclusion of the delegates was that national governments and the general population in our region don’t yet see HIV as a major problem. With fewer people living with HIV, fewer supporters and fewer medical staff, the capacity to respond to HIV in our countries is muted. With less overall societal impact, the perceived need to respond is less urgent.

December 15, 2011

Changes for sex workers in Bulgaria?

Some news clippings in Bulgarian:
• http://www.dnes.bg
• http://dariknews.bg
• http://bnt.bghttp://tv7.bg

Briefly it is said in these videos that sex workers in Sofia organize a protest against the police activity because recently all outdoor sex workers were detained by the police for 24 hours and were not able to do sex work. They want their profession to be legalized, to pay taxes and to be able to work undisturbed. These are mostly independent sex workers who have no pimps and work for themselves.

December 15, 2011

What is the cost of legal reform for Ukrainian sex workers?

According to the authors of the bill, right now only city administrative committees (within city executive body) can deal with these cases, the village committees are not authorized to take the case. Since the cases should be addressed by the executive bodies in the location where the person is officially registered, most of cases on individual sex work remain unaddressed because most of fined sex workers come from smaller towns and villages.

December 14, 2011

Interview with Vantala, Ukraine

AR: What can you say about other sex workers who use drugs in Ukraine?
V: As far as I know, today ¾ of sex workers in Ukraine are «chemically dependent», but there are more sex workers who use alcohol. And there are less of opiate users nowadays, a lot of them died. The young ones are afraid of injections and prefer other methods, that leave less visible traces on the body.

December 14, 2011

SWAN press-release

According to SWAN Coordinator, Aliya Rakhmetova in Budapest : “Police repression and abuse compromises sex workers’ access to law protection and justice and creates a climate of impunity for violence against them. This in turn, fuels violence against sex workers by others. The only way to end such human rights violations is for governments to uphold sex workers’ human rights.”

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