Browse

Click a term to refine your current search.

Theme

Languages

Region

: all » North America and the Caribbean

Year

Keyword search

More options

Resources: North America and the Caribbean

Share

resourcecentre - Taxonomy context view #1

Results 1 - 10 of 44

Results

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
Sex Work Law Reform in Canada: Considering problems with the Nordic model
application/pdf iconNordicBrief-ENG.pdf

This briefing from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network considers the impact of the "Swedish" or "Nordic" model on sex workers.  Examining its harmful effects, this paper argues that this approach would not withstand constitutional scrutiny in Canada.

The briefing also makes recommendations to the Canadian Parliament as follows:

  • Parliament should repeal the section of the Criminal Code that makes it an offence to communicate in a public place for the purposes of prostitution
  • Parliament should repeal the bawdy-house sections of the Criminal Code
  • Parliament should repeal the subsections of the procuring sections of the Criminal Code that relate to bawdy-houses
  • Parliament should repeal the section of the Criminal Code that makes it an offence to live on the avails of prostitution
  • Parliament should repeal the reverse-onus subsection of the Criminal Code as it applies to living on the avails of prostitution

For full details you can download this useful 6 page PDF document above.  This resource is in English.

Advocacy & Campaigning, Law, Policy, & Human Rights
St James Infirmary Annual Report 2010
application/pdf iconSJI Annual Report 2010.pdf

St. James Infirmary provides compassionate and non-judgmental healthcare and social
services for current and former sex workers of all genders and sexual orientations while helping to prevent occupational illnesses and injuries through a comprehensive continuum of services.

Health & HIV/AIDS
Public Health Crisis: The Impact of Using Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution in New York City
application/pdf icon20120417-public-health-crisis[1].pdf

PROS Network (Providers and Resources Offering Services to sex workers) participated in two studies in New York around the impact of policies that use of condoms as ‘evidence of prostitution’. This report written by the PROS Network and Leigh Tomppert of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center, which was funded by Open Society Foundation and the Elton John Foundation, compares the findings of the two studies.

Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Human Trafficking, Sex Work Safety and the 2010 Games
application/pdf iconhumantraffickingsexworksafetyandthe2010games.pdf

In relation to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, public statements were made which project an alarming increase in this human trafficking. These claims are inconsistent with the evidence in this research document, that trafficking and mega-events are not linked.

Advocacy & Campaigning, Sex Work, Migration, & Mobility, Violence
2nd Forum on HIV/AIDS/STD in Latin America and the Caribbean - Cuba 2003
application/pdf iconForum on HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean 2003.pdf

The Conference was held in La Habana, Cuba, from April 7 - 12, 2003. The first Latin-American conference happened in Rio de Janeiro on 2000. Cuba was chosen because of the low incidence of HIV (lowest in Latin America). Around 39 countries and more than 2000 participants attended the conference. Like always, there was a very low participation of sex workers.

Health & HIV/AIDS
Prostitutes of New York (PONY) Statement on Demand
application/pdf iconPONY Statement on Demand.pdf

PONY Statement on Demand

Submitted to the Beijing +10 Fourth World Conference on Women by Prostitutes of New York

Written by Jo Doezema and Melissa Ditmore

Prostitutes of New York is an organization of many kinds of workers in New York City's sex industry. PONY is a member of the international Network of Sex Work Projects, which advocates for the rights of sex workers around the world. Two keywords have arisen in anti-sex work anti-trafficking advocacy: "demand" and "dignity."

Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Letter to the Editor in response to Donna Hughes's Accommodation or Abolition?
application/pdf iconLetter to the Editor - Donna Hughes' Accommodation or Abolition.pdf

Mon, 5 May 2003 23:51:09 -0300 (ART)
From: "Paulo Longo" phlongo2003@yahoo.com.br
To: letters@nationalreview.com, nronline@nationalreview.com
Subject: Letter to the editor

Dear Editor:

Donna Hughes (May 1, 2003, Accommodation or Abolition? Solutions to the problem of sexual trafficking and slavery) grossly misrepresents the international Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP). Her assertions are risible. The NSWP actively works against trafficking in persons, especially children, and lobbied for the passage of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act in 2001. The NSWP also works against the violation of civil liberties in the so-called 100% Condom Use Policy programmes, which are dangerously coercive and include forced physical examinations in unsterile and disease-promoting conditions.

Law, Policy, & Human Rights, Stigma & Discrimination
Recent changes to HIV funding in the US (HR 1298)
application/pdf iconRecent changes to HIV funding in the US (HR 1298).pdf

BACKGROUND
Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Recent changes to HIV funding in the US (HR 1298)

The US Senate approved a new international HIV/AIDS funding bill for approximately $15 billion on Thursday May 15, 2003 (Senate Resolution HR 1298, United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003). The Senate Bill is almost identical to its predecessor in the US House of Representatives and passed through the Senate unusually quickly, preventing debate about the content of the initiative that will triple HIV funding from the US to projects worldwide.

Health & HIV/AIDS, Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Behind Closed Doors
application/pdf iconBehindClosedDoors.pdf

This report focuses on indoor sex work primarily because, while these sex workers are largely invisible, they face many of the same problems as the more visible street-based prostitutes. The stereotypes of indoor sex workers encompass only extremes of either wealth and glamour or coercion and violence. The true picture reveals a more nuanced reality—the majority of indoor sex workers in this study live surprisingly precarious lives, and encounter a high level of exactly the same problems faced by street-based sex workers, including violence, constant fear of police interference, and a lack of substantive support services. Finding concrete and reality-based solutions to the needs of this invisible, vulnerable, and marginalised community is imperative to helping them create safe and stable lives.

Health & HIV/AIDS, Labour, Law, Policy, & Human Rights, Sex Work, Migration, & Mobility, Sex Worker Organising, Stigma & Discrimination, Violence