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'Grey Man' charity head resigns

Submitted by NSWP on 29th March 2012

Further to our January news story the head of the Australian charity 'The Grey Man' has stepped down.

VIDEO: Good Practice in Sex Work HIV Programming in Asia

Submitted by NSWP on 9th March 2012
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APNSW share examples of good practice in sex work HIV programming.

Sex Work: Speaking up for human rights

Submitted by NSWP on 8th March 2012
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International Sex Worker Rights Day

Article by VAMP (Reproduced from FeministsIndia.com)

Sex workers in a small town in Maharashtra, India, march for change on 3rd March, International Sex Workers Rights Day.

Group struggles for distinction between human traffficking and sex work

Submitted by NSWP on 6th March 2012
In an interesting article in Xtra! NGO journalist Paula Stromberg examines the work of the Women's Network for Unity in Cambodia.

The Bar Hostess scene on Phnom Penh

Submitted by NSWP on 3rd March 2012

American academic Heidi Hoefinger has spent seven years researching the local hostess bar scene, and come up with some surprising findings.

Book Review: Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo

Submitted by NSWP on 2nd March 2012

Source: Rights Work Initiative

In her book Illicit Flirtations, Rhacel Parrenas provides us with cutting edge, systematic, and empirical research on Filipina migrant hostesses— the women the U.S. government called the largest group of “trafficked” persons in the world.  Illicit Flirtations challenges this simplistic long-distance assessment.  It presents the nuances, differences, struggles and hopes of Filipina women working in Japan as bar hostesses.

20 years of DMSC

Submitted by NSWP on 2nd March 2012

Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC)  has now been in existence for 20 years.

Read this great article looking at the work of DMSC and its successes at livemint.com

Hit & Run - Report on Anti-trafficking in Thailand

Submitted by NSWP on 29th February 2012
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On 21st February, Empower held a very successful launch of their anti trafficking report "Hit & Run: Sex Worker's Research on Anti trafficking in Thailand."

The launch also saw a special exhibition of a tapestry, 'The Mida Tapestry', sewn by sex workers that speaks of the experience of a 'police rescue' event at Mida Karaoke Bar.

Empower also premiered this short film "Last Rescue in Siam" (above) made by sex workers in Chiang Mai.

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Hit & Run: Sex Worker’s Research on Anti trafficking in Thailand

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The 'Hit & Run' report is the result of 12 months of research by Empower's RATSW project, investigates human rights violations against sex workers carried out in the name of 'rescues' under the anti-trafficking laws.

Sign this Petition to safeguard affordable medicines

Submitted by NSWP on 20th February 2012

Novarstis, a multi-billion dollar Swiss pharma company may get the Indian Supreme Court to shut down the supply of affordable medicines. Novartis is suing the Indian government, if Novartis wins, it will threaten Indian companies’ ability to produce low-cost medicines for malaria, AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening diseases, depriving millions around the world of the treatments they desperately need and threatening thousands of Indian jobs. 

Sign the petition against this action on the AVAAZ website.