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Bulgaria: Discussion on legalization of prostitution gains (new) strength

Public discussion on legalization of prostitution has gained new strengths in the last few months in Bulgaria. Events that attracted public and political attention were two explosions and shooting in striptease bars in Sofia.

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Those events were followed by a series of media reports about underground prostitution and the imminent need for some sort of legal regulation in the field. Many public figures engaged with the issues including representatives of HESED, SWAN member from Bulgaria.

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Macedonia: Launch of community newsletter for sex workers

Sex workers in Skopje, capital of Macedonia, issued this winter first two numbers of a community newsletter entitled “From us to us”.

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As its title suggests, the newsletter is written by sex workers and for sex workers and tackles community life, daily issues and problems. The writers and editors are members of the sex workers’ self-support group STAR established a year ago.

 

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Ukraine: Police write notes to sex workers’ parents

Source: DPA — Ukrainian law enforcers are attempting to dampen growing prostitution by writing unpleasant notes to the parents of arrested streetwalkers, the Sehodnia newspaper reports.

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The letter-writing campaign is aimed at reducing sex-for-hire in the former Soviet republic by bringing parental pressure to bear on prostitutes, said Aleksey Lazarenko, an Internal Ministry spokesman.

 

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Macedonia and Serbia: SWAN holds seminars on sex work for media reporters

In the latest issue of the SWAN News we wrote about the seminar on sex work organized in September for media reporters in Slovakia. In the meantime, similar seminars were organized in November in Macedonia and Serbia.

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The aim of the seminars was to present to the media the issues pertaining sex work in a different way and to ultimately contribute to better quality of media coverage of sex work and less sensationalism in the media.

 

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Our Lives Matter: Odyseus, SWAN member from Slovakia

Our Lives Matter: Sex Workers Unite for Health and Rights is a new report by Anna-Louise Crago, issued in August 2008 by the Open Society Institute. It highlights the creative ways in which sex workers in eight countries have organized to defend their human rights and health. Among thosee groups are also two SWAN members. In this issue we are publishing the chapter featuring Odyseus from Slovakia.

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Представитель SWAN принимает участие во встрече на высоком уровне в ООН в по обсуждению вопросов СПИДа…

10 июня 2008 года на Встрече на высшем уровне по СПИДу в Генеральной Ассамблее ООН прошли интерактивные слушания гражданского общества на тему: Действие для Универсального Доступа 2010: Мифы и реальность.

 

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… на конференции по СПИДу 2008…

Представители двух организаций, членов Сети SWAN, приняли участие в мексиканской конференции: Ирина Маслова из Гуманитарного Действия в России и Гульнара Курманова из Таис Плюс в Киргизстане. Предлагаем вам краткий репортаж с конференции, написанный Ириной эксклюзивно для Новостей SWAN.

 

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