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CEDAW shadow reports

Submitted by NSWP on 18th February 2013

In what is becoming an increasingly innovative mechanism for challenging country reports on the CEDAW treaty, two organisations have recently submitted CEDAW shadow reports. 

It is good to see increasing numbers of sex worker organisations using this strategy to challenge their countries implementation and interpretation of the CEDAW principles.

You can read the shadow reports from the Sex-Worker Forum of Vienna and SZEXE which appear on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) by clicking on their name in red.

Winning UN recognition of Sex Work as Work

Submitted by NSWP on 8th February 2013

This recent blog post on the 'A Kiss for Gabriela' website outlines some of the recent UN documents that recommend decriminalisation, or a move away from criminalisation of sex work. 

In the face of continuing and creeping criminalisation attempts in many territories, this provides a useful summary of some of the additional advocacy tools now available to support activism and campaigning for sex workers' rights, while emphasising the importance of not limiting discussions about sex worker rights solely to disease prevention.

You can read the full blog post here.

NSWP Response to PEPFAR Guidance 2012

Submitted by NSWP on 24th January 2013

World AIDS Day was marked by an air of optimism amongst many donors, international funders and governments last year. Due to a history of exclusion from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), we as the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) were particularly interested to see the US Government’s revised blueprint for ‘Creating an AIDS-free Generation’.

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NSWP Statement: In Reponse to EWL Call for a 'Prostitution Free Europe'

Submitted by NSWP on 24th January 2013

The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) exists to uphold support the voices of sex workers globally and to connect regional networks advocating for the rights of female, male, and transgender sex workers. We have a growing membership of over 150 sex work organisations worldwide. NSWP condemns the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) recent statement “Together for a Europe free from prostitution” on the basis that the evidence used to support the call is biased and ill-informed; there is a dangerous conflation between sex work and trafficking, and most notably, sex workers’ voices and experiences are rendered invisible in this campaign.

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application/pdf iconNSWP Statement EWL.pdf

Documenting Good Practice Issue 1 - Addressing Violence Against Sex Workers

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2012

This is the first in an occasional series of papers that will be produced covering a variety of topics. This series will try to provide a global overview for activists, highlighting examples of good practice developed by member organisations and sex worker-led groups across the regions.

This paper is intended to be a ‘living document’ which will be added to as we document further examples from our global membership.

The topic of this first paper is 'Addressing Violence Against Sex Workers' and highlights 12 country examples of interventions too address violence.

You can download this 9 page PDF file above.  This resource is in English.

Documenting Good Practice Issue 1 - Addressing Violence Against Sex Workers

Submitted by NSWP on 20th December 2012

This is the first in an occasional series of papers that will be produced covering a variety of topics. This series will try to provide a global overview for activists, highlighting examples of good practice developed by member organisations and sex worker-led groups across the regions.

This paper is intended to be a ‘living document’ which will be added to as we document further examples from our global membership.

The topic of this first paper is 'Addressing Violence Against Sex Workers' and highlights 12 country examples of interventions too address violence.

You can download this 9 page PDF file below.  This resource is in English.

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Sex Work Digest - Issue 2: Opposing Criminalisation

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2012

This is the second issue of NSWP's quarterly newsletter ‘Sex Work Digest’. 

This second issue focuses on Opposing Criminalisation.

This resource is in English.  You can download this 5 page PDF above.

Sex Work Digest - Issue 2: Opposing Criminalisation

Submitted by NSWP on 20th December 2012

This is the second issue of NSWP's quarterly newsletter ‘Sex Work Digest’. 

This first issue focuses on Opposing Criminalisation.

This resource is in English.  You can download this 5 page PDF below.

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application/pdf iconSW digest 02 Dec2012.pdf

Research for Sex Work 13: HIV and Sex Work – The view from 2012

Submitted by NSWP on 19th December 2012

The 13th issue of Research for Sex Work was released on December 17, 2012.

Research for Sex Work is a publication intended for sex workers, activists, health workers, researchers, NGO staff and policymakers. It is published annually by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and is governed by an Editorial Board consisting of sex workers, staff of support organisations and researchers.

This issue is on the theme of HIV and Sex Work.

Contents:

  • Editorial (Laura María Agustín)
  • Anti-Pornography Crackdowns: Sex Work and HIV in China (China Sex Worker Organisation Network Forum)
  • Living With HIV: How I Treat Myself (Told by Diputo Lety to Elsa Oliveira)
  • Men At Work: Male Sex Workers, HIV and the Law (Brendan Michael Conner)
  • Blaming Disease On Female Sex Workers: A Long History (Tiphaine Besnard)
  • Working With the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Empower Foundation Thailand)
  • Sexual-Health Outreach in Machala, Ecuador (Asociación ‘22 de junio’ and Colectivo Flor de Azalea)
  • Promoting Sex Worker-Led Research in Namibia (Matthew Greenall and Abel Shinana)
  • The Tide Can Not Be Turned Without Us (Cheryl Overs)
  • Gay Parties and Male Sex Workers in Nigeria (Kehinde Okanlawon and Ade Iretunde)
  • No Condoms as Evidence: A Sex-Worker Campaign in New York (Audacia Ray and Sarah Elspeth Patterson)
  • ‘The Space Which Is Not Mine’: Sex Workers Living With HIV/AIDS in Venice and Edinburgh (Nicoletta Policek)
  • Female-Condom Use in Zimbabwe, Cameroon and Nigeria (Winny Koster and Marije Groot Bruinderink)

PDFs of the “HIV and Sex Work – The view from 2012” Research for Sex Work, a bilingual publication in English and Chinese, can be downloaded below (32 page PDF document), or free hard copies can be requested by emailing secretariat@nswp.org.

ALL ISSUES OF RESEARCH FOR SEX WORK CAN BE FOUND HERE.

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《性工作研究》第13期“2012：艾滋病与性工作”

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2012

过刊可以在以下网址下载：性工作研究

目录：

  • 卷首语（Laura María Agustín）
  • 扫黄对中国性工作与艾滋病防治的影响 （中国性工作者机构网络平台） 
  • 与艾滋病毒共存：我如何善待自己（Diputo Lety讲述，Elsa Oliveira整理）
  • 男性性工作者、艾滋病和法律（Brendan Michael Conner）
  • 将疾病的传播归咎于性工作者：一段漫长的历史 （Tiphaine Besnard）
  • 与全球基金合作的经验（泰国赋权基金会）
  • 厄瓜多尔马查拉的生殖健康外展教育 （Asociación ’22 de junio’和Colectivo Flor de Azalea）
  • 在纳米比亚推动由性工作者主导的研究 （Matthew Greenall,Abel Shinana）
  • 没有我们，艾滋病疫情无法扭转（Cheryl Overs）
  • 尼日利亚的同性恋聚会及男性性工作者（Kehinde Okanlawon,Ade Iretunde）
  • 《禁止把安全套作为证据》：纽约的性工作者运动 （Audacia Ray,Sarah Elspeth Patterson）
  • “这不是我的地方”： 威尼斯和爱丁堡的阳性性工作者 （Nicoletta Policek）
  • 津巴布韦、喀麦隆和尼日利亚：女用安全套的使用情况 （Winny Koster, Marije Groot Bruinderink）