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Sex Workers Project CEDAW shadow report 2007
application/pdf iconSWP shadow CEDAW 2007.pdf

Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center - Shadow CEDAW report submitted to the 39th Session of CEDAW in 2007.

You can download this 13 page PDF report above.

This resource is in English.

Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Trafficking in Human Beings and the 2006 World Cup in Germany
application/pdf iconmrs29[1].pdf

This study was published by International Organisation for Migration (IOM) with financial support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and was conducted between June and September 2006.

Advocacy & Campaigning, Sex Work, Migration, & Mobility
NSWP Organisational Review 2007
application/pdf iconNSWP Organisational Review - August 2007.pdf

This document is  an independent review of NSWP governance and organisational structure conducted in August 2007  with the view to reorganising into an incorporated non-government organisation. The review was conducted by a consultant who was not a member of the NSWP.

Advocacy & Campaigning
UNAIDS PCB Meeting in Geneva
application/pdf iconUNAIDS PCB Meeting in Geneva.pdf

Date: June 25

UNAIDS PCB met in Geneva on June 25, 2007 and the APNSW spearheaded efforts with NGOs to demonstrate the ways that the proposed UNAIDS Guidance on Sex Work violated UN human rights documents.

Health & HIV/AIDS, Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Bar Girls in India are Being Evicted
application/pdf iconBar Girls are being evicted by Shiv Sena.pdf

Bar girls are being evicted by Shiv Sena with the support of the State

Date: June 07, 2007

Varsha Kale (President - WPI) writes:

Labour, Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Riots and Protests in El Alto, Bolivia
application/pdf iconRiots and Protests in El Alto, Bolivia.pdf

The red-light area of the city of El Alto in Bolivia has been ransacked. Local residents, calling the area a 'haven for criminals', destroyed bars and brothels and assaulted sex workers. Following the attacks, sex workers have been arrested, jailed, and detained. Some have sewn their lips shut in protest.

Economic Empowerment, Health & HIV/AIDS, Stigma & Discrimination
Labour on the Margins
application/pdf iconlaborOnTheMargins.pdf

Labour standards and occupational health and safety have been the rights of Canadian Workers for over 100 years. The sex industry and its workers have however never enjoyed the privileges of being acknowledged for providing a safe work space or been able to complain about dangerous conditions. This has forced the system at large to impose what it believes is right for sex industry workers with disastrous results for decades in the BC/Yukon region. The need for a community based process through which the sex industry can govern itself and have input to its future and stability has never been more urgent.

Economic Empowerment, Labour, Law, Policy, & Human Rights, Sex Worker Organising, Stigma & Discrimination
Cooperative Development Exploration Report
application/pdf icondevelopingCapacityForChange.pdf

The BC Coalition of Experiential Women was funded to explore working conditions of off street municipally licensed massage parlors and escort agencies. A series of three focus groups were conducted with individuals employed in these venues as well as those who work primarily on street. This report presents the findings of these interviews.

Advocacy & Campaigning, Economic Empowerment, Labour, Law, Policy, & Human Rights, Violence
Sex Work: 14 Answers to Your Questions
application/pdf icon14answersstella.pdf

This booklet has been produced for the “Sex work: Everything you always wanted to know but never dared to ask!” training project. It answers questions that people who are unfamiliar with sex work might have about sex workers, rights, and realities.

Sex Work, Migration, & Mobility, Stigma & Discrimination
Not Up to the Challenge of Change: An Analysis of the Report of the Subcomittee of Solicitation Laws
application/pdf iconNot up to the challenge of change.pdf

“The Challenge of Change,” the December 2006 report of the House of Commons Subcommittee on Solicitation Laws, was aptly named — the Subcommittee failed to meet the challenge of recommending legislative changes that are urgently needed to protect and fulfil the health, safety and human rights of adult sex workers in Canada.This paper critiques the Subcommittee’s report in detail. It also summarises the Legal Network’s analysis of the criminal law’s impact on sex workers and calls on federal politicians to show real leadership by standing up for the human rights of sex workers in Canada.

Law, Policy, & Human Rights, Sex Work, Migration, & Mobility