network of sex work projects
promoting health and human rights

Rights

• The International Organisation for Migration — This organisation has close ties with the United Nations, but is not officially part of the UN. It is very big, and runs and supports programmes in a largeÊnumber of countries to promote migrant rights.
  www.iom.int
• International Human Rights Law Group — Check out their 'Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons' for a truly excellent resource section on reports, national and international laws on trafficking and internationalÊagreements on forced labour, women's rights and children's rights.
  www.hrlawgroup.org
• The International Labour Organisation — The ILO is a part of the UN system. They describe themselves as ' the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.'
  www.ilo.org
• Human Rights Watch — Is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
  www.hrw.org/about/about.html
• Amnesty International — Focuses on the release of prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners, and the abolition of the death penalty and torture.
  www.amnesty.org
• Amnistie Internationale — Section Canadienne Francophone. Mouvement mondial composé de bénévoles, Amnistie internationale intervient dans le monde entier pour la défense des victimes dont les droits fondamentaux ont été violés ou sont menacés de l'être.
  http://amnistie.qc.ca
• Amnesty For Women —
  www.ammnestyforwomen.de
• December 18 — On-line migrant rights organisation named after the international day for migrant's rights. One very useful document lists all the relevent international and regional trafficking legislation, going back to beginning of the last century:
  www.december18.net/traffickingconventions
• Migrant Rights International — The independent global monitoring body that focuses human rights of migrants. founded in Cairo in 1994.
  www.migrantwatch.org
• Migrants' Rights —
  www.migrantsrights.org
• Asian Migrants — On-line magazine of the Asian Migrant Centre, Hong Kong.
  www.asian-migrants.org
• Canadian Council of Refugees — a non-profit umbrella organization committed to the rights and protection of refugees in Canada and around the world and to the settlement of refugees and immigrants in Canada.
  www.web.net/~ccr
• Asian Partnership on International Migration (APIM) — On the 4^th of December, 2000, the United Nations General Assembly officially proclaimed December 18^th as International Migrant's Day. The idea for this first came from a UNDP project, 'Asia Pacific 2000', which initiated the formation of the Asian Partnership on International Migration (APIM), headquartered in UNDP Kuala Lumpur.
  www.apim.apdip.net
• The Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women
  The International Coordination Office
  P.O.Box 36, Bangkok Noi Office
  Bangkok 10700, Thailand
  Tel: (662) 864-1427-8
  Fax: (662) 864-1637
  Email: gaatw@mozart.inet.co.th
  Web: www.inet.co.th/org/gaatw/
  This website features publications some of which are available in Asian languages including Khmer and Vietnamese. We recommend the Migrating Women's Handbook.
• La lista electrónica 'Industria del Sexo'
  La lista electrónica 'Industria del Sexo' va dirigida a personas que ya tienen algún trabajo relacionado con la industria, como trabajadores sexuales, investigadores, médicos, educadores de calle, personal de ONG y de gobiernos o miembros de asociaciones de migrantes. Est´ conceptualizada para conversaciones pr´cticas, para compartir informaciones, contactos, t´cticas y dudas pero no para discutir ideologías. Se escribe en cualquier idioma romance (castellano, italiano, portugués etc).
  Si tienes interés en participar, contacta a Laura Agustín: laura@nodo50.org
• Child Trafficking Digital Library — Over 930 documents on the topic of child trafficking.
  "Stop Child Trafficking" (www.childtrafficking.com) is an international campaign produced by the Swiss Foundation of Terre des Hommes. Terre des Hommes provides direct and non-bureaucratic assistance to children in distress, wherever they may be and fights for children's rights in 30 countries. Practices a strict policy of political, racial and religious neutrality.