We gather evidence to fuel advocacy, understand community needs, and push for change with recommendations rooted in lived experience. By combining research with insights from sex workers, we make sure our information is clear, accessible, and impactful. Our goal is to use this evidence to demand fairer, rights-based policies and hold policymakers accountable for decisions that affect us.
This booklet is a compilation of articles that were written for the SWAN, the Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network of Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In 2007, I had the great honour of being asked by the Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP) of the Open Society Institute (OSI) to work for SWAN. At […]
To mark December 17, the International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers, the Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN) of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia is releasing its new report, Arrest the Violence: Human Rights Violations Against Sex Workers in 11 Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The report is based […]