SWAN is Hiring – Regional Consultant: Regional Assessment of Sex Workers and Digital Technologies in CEECA SWAN is seeking to hire a consultant to develop a regional assessment on sex workers and digital technologies in CEECA region. The assessment aims to provide an overview of issues related to the use of digital technology among sex […]
A joint statement with ECOM on the deportation of four migrant trans women sex workers in Russia under the latest anti-LGBT “propaganda” law Is there a new anti-LGBT propaganda law? In December 2022, the new draft legislation to further restrict the freedom of expression for LGBTQ+ people came into force in Russia. This version of […]
Russia’s new anti-LGBT ‘propaganda’ law is already being used to prosecute and deport transgender sex workers Almost 2 months ago, on 5 December last year, President Putin signed a ban on so-called ‘LGBT propaganda’ into law, prohibiting what it refers to as the “ promotion of non-traditional relationships and gender reassignment” ”, effective immediately. Whilst […]
SWAN team visits Right Side NGO in Yerevan, Armenia This December, SWAN team members Marija Tosheva and Trajche Janushev paid a visit to our member organization Right Side NGO at their community center in Yerevan, Armenia. During 4 days of meetings, SWAN’s team, together with members of Right Side, discussed the set-up of a human […]
SWAN runs regional training days on community-led budget advocacy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan For the grassroots community-led organisations in our network who are fighting hard to deliver services vital to sex-workers health and wellbeing, available finances and the systems by which these become available, which are linked to wider funding bodies and governments, are often inaccessible […]
SWAN hosts a training for our new RCF programme in Budapest: “BUILDING RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE & STRENGTHENING HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY” In the wake of COVID-19, sex workers were largely left behind by government schemes aimed at shielding citizens from the worst impacts of the global pandemic, revealing the underlying truth that, due to factors such […]
SWAN hosts 2-day SWIT Training in Baku, Azerbaijan This October, SWAN was invited by ECOM, as a regional sex worker community network, to provide 2 days of training on the effective use of the Sex Worker Implementation Tool (SWIT) in Baku, Azerbaijan, presenting to organisations from the region that wish to better support the sex […]
Releasing SWAN’s Annual Report for 2021 A look back on our activities in 2021, including capacity building, community mobilization, advocacy and the launch of two regional community resources – “Sex Work and Feminism”, and “Sex Work and Migration in CEECA”. We also proudly marked the 15th anniversary of SWAN by publishing our 15 years report, […]
The Framework on Rights of Sex Workers & CEDAW is now available in Russian! NSWP and IWRAW AP’s 2018 paper The Framework on Rights of Sex Workers & CEDAW, linking human rights principles to the debate around laws on prostitution and sex work, has now been translated into Russian courtesy of SWAN, and is available […]
Our first Cyber Security resource for sex workers in CEECA Our series of four Cyber Security webinars this summer, each with between 15 and 25 participants, brought together a mixture of sex workers, activists and allies from our member organisations, providing a great starting point towards understanding and addressing the unique challenges faced in the […]