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COVID-19 pandemic devastating to transgender sex workers in the Dominican Republic

Enviado por NSWP el 8th Septiembre 2020

The Dominican Republic recorded its first coronavirus case on the 1st March 2020, and the country has since reached almost 100,000 reported cases. France 24 has published an article on the impact of COVID-19 on transgender sex workers in the Dominican Republic, speaking with Luna Veras, Henely Flores, and organisation TRANSSA, who are all based in the capital of Santo Domingo.

State Commission for Human Rights in Chihuahua, Mexico Makes Recommendation on Trans Sex Workers' Rights

Enviado por NSWP el 21st Noviembre 2016
On 10 November, Mireya Rodríguez Lemus, President of the Asociación Civil, Unión y Fuerza de Mujeres Transexuales Chihuahuenses, announced the first recommendation made by the State Commission on Human Rights on the rights of transgender sex workers in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. 

11th Harm Reduction Conference in the United States

Enviado por NSWP el 21st Noviembre 2016

The 11th Harm Reduction Conference took place in San Diego, California from 3-6 November. It included workshops, talks, and panels with American sex work organisations such as HIPS, SWOP-USA and independent sex work activists like Emi Koyama, who works out of Portland and Seattle. Koyama is active in American sex work advocacy. She presents workshops and speaking on panels at conferences such as the Desiree Alliance and The Seattle Annual Sex Work Symposium hosted by SWOP Seattle.

Transgender Sex Worker Murdered in Nantes, France

Enviado por NSWP el 17th Noviembre 2016

Niurkeli, a 33-year-old transgender sex worker, was murdered by a client in Nantes, France. Niurkeli was migrant sex worker of Ecuadorian origin. She was living in Paris with her family. Since 2014 her work conditions have deteriorated. “She was known in the sex worker community and often went to demos for sex workers' rights and against criminalisation,” said Thierry Schaffauser from STRASS.

跨性別性工作者被捕個案實錄

Enviado por NSWP el 29th Septiembre 2016
午夜藍發表被捕跨性別性工作者哪些文件被拘留所面臨的跨性別性工作者的侵犯人權的他們的報告案例。截至2016年6月，午夜藍已經monitoried誰是在香港拘捕40跨性別性工作者的案件。許多跨性別性工作者在香港是農民的性工作者，經過他們的拘留完全是他們經常被驅逐出境。午夜藍要求嚴格的刑事司法體系審查對跨性別性工作者的侵犯人權的行為在香港拘留。
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Cases of Arrested Transgender Sex Workers

Enviado por NSWP el 29th Septiembre 2016

Midnight Blue has published their report Cases of Arrested Transgender Sex Workers which documents the human rights abuses faced by transgender sex workers in detention. Up until June 2016, Midnight Blue has monitoried the cases of 40 transgender sex workers who were arrested in Hong Kong. Many transgender sex workers in Hong Kong are migrant sex workers, and after their detention is complete they are often deported. Midnight Blue is demanding the criminal justice system review the human rights abuses against transgender sex workers in detention in Hong Kong.

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Violence Faced by Khwaja Sara Sex Workers in Pakistan

Enviado por NSWP el 29th Septiembre 2016

Khwaja sara (also known as Hijra, third gender or transgender) sex workers in Pakistan experience stigma, discrimination and criminalisation, as well as lack of rights and access to healthcare. 

Gulmakai, a khwaja sara sex worker, says hostility towards khwaja saras is "embedded at every level, from every day affairs to the government". Sex work is an occupation in which khwaja saras are able to make a living, unlike many other industries which continue to heavily discriminate and exclude member of her community.

A Conversation with Aruba Williams Ortiz Nájera, Mexico

Enviado por NSWP el 23rd Septiembre 2016

NSWP’s Regional Correspndent in Latin America Ana Karen Lopez Quintana met with Aruba Williams Ortiz Nájera tells, a transgender woman, sex worker activist, and defender of human rights, gender equality, and sexual diversity. Aruba is the president of Tamaulipas Diversity Vihda Trans AC, member of the women's Committee of the National Center for Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS (CENSIDA) and representative of the Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen el Trabajo Sexual Chapter Mexico (PLAPERTS).