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WHO says 'There's a good rationale for periodic presumptive treatment where #sexworkers have poor access to healthcare' http://t.co/rGhnKMsB 7 hours 6 min ago
WHO's 3 prongs of HIV prevention 4 #sex workers : prevent entry into #sexwork, intervene to prevent HIV & empower women to leave sex work 7 hours 10 min ago
Reasons to go to the Aids Conference in the US. http://t.co/2CMOe5Za 3 days 13 hours ago
...and the legal term 'sexual exploitation' means that 99% of #sexworkers are trafficked http://t.co/zGU8R63j 3 days 16 hours ago
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Latest News, Resources and Events

Addressing the Demand Side of Trafficking

Source: rightswork.org

This paper, written by Phil Marshall, briefly raises some issues around the demand side of trafficking, initially focusing on demand relating to exploitative labour practices and then discussing issues around demand contributing to exploitation for sexual purposes. It is very much an opinion piece, intended to promote discussion.

Phil Marshall
Posted 26 January 2012 by NSWP
NSWP - WHO Community Consultation Report

The World Health Organization (WHO) is developing guidelines for evidence-based interventions
for the prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in low- and
middle-income countries.

The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) oversaw a civil society consultation of sex workers commissioned by the WHO to gather feedback on the proposed guidelines and produced this report, entitled:

'Female, Male and Transgender Sex Workers' Perspectives on HIV & STI Prevention and Treatment Services: a global sex worker consultation.'

NSWP
Posted 25 January 2012 by NSWP
Community Rally in LA to defend global access to affordable medicines - 12 Noon, 1st February

Expose the Secret Big Pharma Free Trade Deal Negotiations in LA!

NSWP members and activists in LA are encouraged to attend this important protest to defend global access to affordable medicines. 

Health GAP and the California Fair Trade Coalition, AFL-CIO, Citizens Trade Campaign, Friends of the Earth, Public Citizen,  Moana Nui and local members of the labor, environmental, Latino, and Asian-Pacific Island communities are planning a teach-in and Rally in LA.

Posted 25 January 2012 by NSWP
Zi Teng Hong Kong Newsletter

You can read these interesting articles from the 39th Newsletter from our colleagues at Zi Teng - based in Hong Kong.

The topics covered in this issue of the newsletter include:

  • complaints of abuse by massage workers and migrant sex workers
  • injustice in the Hong Kong courts
  • abuses of police power

Their newsletter is available on the website here. 

Or you can read or download the newsletter here (English) or here (Chinese).

Posted 24 January 2012 by neil
Act Up-Basel: Take your claws off our medicines!

NSWP has signed up to this petition and urges others to do so.

Source: Act Up Basel and Change.org

Act Up Basel
Posted 24 January 2012 by neil