After its November session, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in their concluding observations draws a recommendation to Russia on protection for female and transgender sex workers. SWAN welcomes CEDAW recommendation 29 (c) for Russia, which holds to revise article 6.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences to decriminalize women in prostitution. […]
Deadline for submissions: January 14, 2022 SWAN is seeking to recruit a consultant to prepare and write a briefing paper on the impact of COVID-19 on sex worker-led organizations, sex workers, and community-led responses in CEECA. The paper aims to explore and document experiences of groups and individual sex workers’ access to services in crisis […]
On the 12th of August 2021, Front Line Defenders published its global report based on 4 years of investigation among sex worker activists. The report was launched at an online webinar with the participation of United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, comedian Margaret Cho, journalist Melissa Gira Grant, human […]
A glossary was produced by the regional networks of communities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia with the invitation of UNAIDS to develop a list of key Russian-language terms related to community leadership in response to the HIV epidemic. SWAN programme officer Kristina Mahnicheva and activist Shahnaz Islamova from SWAN member organisation Tais Plus were […]
Today is June 2, the 46th International Sex Workers’ Day (#ISWD2021). Every year sex workers mark today to celebrate 100 French sex workers occupying Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon in 1975, commonly accepted as the birth of the modern sex workers’ rights movement. French sex workers were protesting the terrible living conditions, criminalised environment and the […]
Every year Shah-Aiym Network shares the results of their reporting process regarding violence against sex workers in Kyrgyzstan. 2020 Results of documenting violence against sex workers in Kyrgyzstan shows that 333 cases of human rights violations and violence against sex workers have been documented. Similar to the previous years in 2020 the police officers were the […]
Statement of Eastern Europe and Central Asia regional community networks to the United National General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS on key priorities in HIV and AIDS response The Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS determines the directions of global and national policies, and the ways people and communities are able to […]
8 th of March 2021 Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (SWAN) strongly condemns the regressive provisions and measures put forth in the General Recommendation No 38, on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration. On this International Women’s Day, we would like to […]
SWAN Foundation is seeking a responsible, accurate and communicative person for a part-time (20 hours/week) position of Administrative Assistant. The Administrative Assistant will be working under the direct supervision of the Operations Manager and is responsible for managing SWAN office procedures and other tasks assigned by Operations Manager and Executive Director. The Administrative Assistance must […]
SWAN member Tais Plus from Kyrgyzstan come out with a new design of Sex Worker Implementation Tool (SWIT). Over the years Tais Plus has found creative ways of promoting SWIT within sex workers in Kyrgyzstan, including a mini-theatre presenting all six chapters SWIT. This year SWIT was turn into a calendar. The calendar is available […]