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Public Health Crisis: The Impact of Using Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution in New York City
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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’.

Law, Policy, & Human Rights
The Sex Industry in New South Wales: a Report to the NSW Ministry of Health
application/pdf iconNSWSexIndustryReportV4.pdf

The Law and Sexworker Health (LASH) team at the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales were funded by the NSW Ministry of Health to better inform policy considerations, and the National Health and Medical Research Council to investigate if the various approaches across Australian jurisdictions were associated with different health and welfare outcomes for sex workers.

Health & HIV/AIDS, Law, Policy, & Human Rights
The Swedish Law to Criminalize Clients:A failed experiment in social engineering
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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.

Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Sex Work, HIV and Access to Health Services in Namibia: National Meeting report and recommendations
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Health & HIV/AIDS, Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Sex Work and HIV: Review of the literature and current programmes
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Health & HIV/AIDS, Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Sex Work and HIV - Reality on the Ground: Rapid Assessments in five towns in Namibia
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Health & HIV/AIDS, Law, Policy, & Human Rights
IPPF HIV Newsletter: Laws & Policies
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IPPF's HIV Update newsletter, the first in 2012 focuses on 'laws & policies'.  This issue features an article from the Global Commission on HIV and the Law.  Many sex workers contributed to the evidence gathered by the Commission, including through the regional dialogues. 

You can view / download this 4 page PDF document (in English) above.

French and Spanish versions will be available soon on the IPPF website.  

Health & HIV/AIDS, Law, Policy, & Human Rights
Hit & Run: Sex Worker’s Research on Anti trafficking in Thailand
application/pdf iconHit and Run RATSW Eng online.pdf

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.

Advocacy & Campaigning, Law, Policy, & Human Rights, Sex Work, Migration, & Mobility
Report on the Impact of China's 2010 "Strike Hard Campaign": A Crackdown on Sex Work
application/pdf iconEN_Research_on_the_Impact_of_Crackdown_on_Sex_Work_and_HIV_Interventions_in_China[1].pdf
Source: AsiaCatalyst.org
 
The 2010 "Strike Hard Campaign" (police crackdowns) put in place a zero tolerance policy on sex work, gambling and drugs all across China. While many brothels and popular clubs were closed ultimately sex workers continued work out in more remote areas. This geographic shift cut people off from essential health services, HIV/AIDS education, and even funeral services for women who die while cut off from their families.

Here in its first major report The China Sex Worker Organization Network Forum trained its members to document the effects of the crackdown.
Advocacy & Campaigning, Health & HIV/AIDS, Law, Policy, & Human Rights, Stigma & Discrimination, Violence
NSWP - WHO Community Consultation Report - updated
application/pdf iconNSWP- WHO Consultation Report updated.pdf

This document has been updated following discussions at the consensus meeting on the need to highlight explicitly the responses provided on collective empowerment. 

The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) oversaw a civil society consultation of sex workers commissioned by the WHO to gather feedback on their proposed guidelines for evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in low- and middle-income countries.

Advocacy & Campaigning, Health & HIV/AIDS, Labour, Law, Policy, & Human Rights, Stigma & Discrimination