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Секс-работники в Анкаре и Стамбуле выступают с требованием признать их права

 

Секс-работники Анкары и Стамбула выступили с заявлениями протеста 3-го марта, в Международный день защиты прав секс-работников. Они требуют признания своей професии и права организовать профсоюз.
Агентство новостей «Bıa news centre», Стамбул – Анкара.
4 марта 2009, Карсамба.

Эмине Озган
“ К несчастью, у нас нет возможности отмечать Международный день секс-работников, потому что мы являемся постоянным объектом насилия. Полиция не только не защищает нас, но и активно участвует в притеснениях.”

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Macedonia: Partnership in Action – Skopje using video to protect sex workers

Video will speak about violence that sex workers are facing and its influence on their everyday life, family etc, and will have appeal to the police to recognize sex workers rights as human rights and to implement the principles of equality and non discrimination when dealing with sex workers. WITNESS staffers, Ryan Kautz and Violeta Krasnic started to make interviews with sex workers and also, with Marija Tosheva, HOPS Program Director, about the recent raids against sex workers.

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SWAN NEWS, Issue 23 February – March, 2009

IN FOCUS:
3RD OF MARCH, INTERNATIONAL SEX WORKER RIGHTS DAY
The day originated in 2001 when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a sex worker festival. The organizers of the first festival were Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a Calcutta based group whose membership consists of somewhere upwards of 50,000 sex workers and members of their communities. Sex worker groups across the world have subsequently celebrated 3 March as International Sex Workers’ Rights Day.

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SWAN Petition to Macedonian Government

PETITION TO MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT REGARDING THE DETENTION, INVOLUNTARY TESTING AND TEST RESULTS PUBLICATION AGAINST SEX WORKERS IN NOVEMBER 2008

December 17, 2008
Dear Mrs. Gordana Jankuloska, Minister of Interior,
Dear Mrs. Aneta Stancevska, Vice Minister of Interior and Chief of Sector for Internal Control,
Dear Mr. Idzet Memeti, Ombudsman,
Dear Mr. Bujar Osmani, Minister of Health.

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Albania: Media campaign, round table and newsletter for sex workers

Media
Media coverage was mostly focused on the report from the 2007-2008 sex workers mapping project undertaken by Aksion Plus with support from UNFPA, whose data were released in the days leading to December 17. Result of the media campaign was in-depth coverage of sex work issues by several leading news outlets.

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Macedonia: Exhibition, red umbrella march, postcards, posters, newsletter

The campaign started on December 17 at 7 PM in front of the Macedonian TV in Skopje, by a symbolic red umbrella opening action Rights, not violence. HOPS, SWAN member from Macedonia and Star, organization for self-support of sex workers, distributed some 150 red umbrellas and invited guests, friends and supporters of sex workers to the event. 

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