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Latest News, Resources and Events

Statement from The Brazilian Network of Prostitutes: Federal Government Censorship, Intervention, and Alteration of the AIDS Prevention Campaign

The Brazilian Network of Prostitutes released a statement on June 7, 2013, in response to the government's recent censorship of a rights based HIV prevention campaign developed by sex workers in partnership with the STD/AIDS Department/Ministry of Health earlier this year. The campaign was launched for International Prostitutes Day (June 2nd), and, just two days later, ordered to be taken offline by the Minister of Health. A sanitised and adulterated campaign was relaunched several days later. Sex worker NGOs quickly mobilised and released statements critisizing the government's actions. As the Brazilian Network of Prostitutes noted, "With the government’s decision to first veto and then drastically alter the AIDS campaign supposedly constructed in partnership with prostitutes, we see that they are using this social group to affirm what they desire, thereby ignoring the achievements of the social movement and violating diverse democratic principles".

The full statement from the Brazilian Network of Prostitutes is available here. The following blog post from Laura Murray, sex worker rights advocate, filmmaker, and student based in Brazil, provides more background information about the events that have unfolded in the country over the past week and a link to the entire censored campaign.

Brazilian Network of Prostitutes
Posted 11 June 2013 by NSWP
Sign-On to Increase Meaningful Coverage of Key Populations at the International AIDS Conference

ACTION ALERT! - deadline extended

A new report released on June 4th, 2013 by a coalition of global advocacy organisations shows that the International AIDS Conference (IAC) program continues to lack meaningful coverage of HIV-related issues concerning men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people, people who inject drugs (PWID), and sex workers.

Jack Beck, MSMGF
Posted 6 June 2013 by NSWP
NSWP Supports Chinese Sex Worker Activist Ye Haiyan, Currently Detained by Police

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On May 30th, 2013, Chinese activist Ye Haiyan (叶海燕) was detained by the police. Official reports attempt to portray her in a negative light, saying that she is currently under arrest for 15 days after attacking three neighbours with a knife; however, these Chinese media reports fail to explain why she needed to defend herself and her 13-year-old daughter in such a way from violent intruders in her Guangxi home. 

Posted 5 June 2013 by NSWP
Launch of NSWP+ Website

To mark International Sex Worker Day, we have formally launched the NSWP+ website.

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NSWP+ was formed during the Sex Worker Freedom Festival in 2012, when a group of positive sex workers came together and demanded recognition that:

‘sex workers are not the problem, but part of the solution’

As a platform for all those committed to defending the rights of sex workers living with HIV, NSWP+ now also exists to share information and to communicate the demands and needs of sex workers living with HIV. These original demands are set out below. Sex workers will campaign alongside treatment activists and other key affected populations to defend the human rights of sex workers to appropriate HIV treatment, care, and support.

NSWP+
Posted 3 June 2013 by NSWP
NSWP appoints Communications Team

NSWP is pleased to announce the newly appointed NSWP Communications Team who join the Global Secretariat as of 1 June 2013

Anelda Grové  – Communications Officer

Anelda has been active in the Scottish sex worker rights movement and is a member of the SCOT-PEP campaign group. As a recent economics postgraduate, her background is mainly in Economic Development and Policy Analysis although her main interests are now directed towards policy research and advocacy for sex workers rights. Anelda will be based in Scotland.

Denis Nzioka  - Communications Officer

Denis is a Kenyan sex worker advocate and media consultant. He has been instrumental in setting up various sex worker projects and groups in the country as well as offering media/journalism training to sex worker activists and groups and he sits on the Board of Kenya Sex Workers Alliance (KESWA). He founded Identity Kenya, a news agency that caters to sexual and gender minorities and features sex workers voices as well as articles on the sex work movement.Denis will be based in Kenya.

Kate Zen – Communications Coordinator

Kate has been active in sex worker organisations in New York City since first volunteering with $pread Magazine in 2008. She has been a part of the Sex Workers Outreach Project NYC, and the committee for Best Practices Policy Project. She has also interned with Streetwise and Safe and the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center. Now, living in Montreal, she is a new volunteer with Stella. Kate has also worked  as a freelance graphic designer and web analytics consultant at two digital marketing agencies in Manhattan. Kate will be based in Canada.

Nadine Stott  – Communications Officer

Nadine has been involved in the sex workers' rights movement for several years, and has activist and campaigning experience with SCOT-PEP and the Sex Worker Open University. She was heavily involved in organising the joint SWOU/SCOT-PEP week-long conference of sex worker rights in Glasgow in April 2013, and in setting up SWOU Glasgow. Nadine will be based in Scotland.

Posted 30 May 2013 by NSWP