The conflation of trafficking and migration with sex work, in law and practice, presents challenges to NSWP.

This NSWP briefing paper explains how sex work is conflated with trafficking; the legal framework; how demand for sex work is conflated with trafficking; the dangers of conflating trafficking with sex work, its impacts on sex workers’ lives and work; the impact on sex worker programming; and offers some recommendations for policy makers, donors and for civil society. 

In 1999, the Swedish government embarked on an experiment in social engineering to end men’s practice of purchasing commercial sexual services. The government enacted a new law criminalising the purchase (but not the sale) of sex (Swedish Penal Code). It hoped that the fear of arrest and increased public stigma would convince men to change their sexual behaviour. The government also hoped that the law would force the estimated 1,850 to 3,000 women who sold sex in Sweden at that time to find another line of work.

This is the Spanish version of the Note for Record of the July 2011 UNAIDS Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Work Teleconferences

This document details the events of the group teleconferences, including:

• UN High Level meeting on AIDS
• WHO Guidelines Development
• World Bank Global Analysis of HIV in Sex Workers
• Global Commission on HIV and the Law

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