Aliança de Trabalhadores de Sexo de Angola

Who do you work with?

Nossa organização trabalha  com homens e mulheres  LGBTQI+ Trabalhadores do sexo.

Our organization works with LGBTQI+ men and women Sex Workers.

How are sex workers involved in your organisation?

Os profissionais do sexo estão envolvidos da seguinte maneira, 60% do órgão de decisão e composto por profissionais do sexo, isto  incluir trabalhadores de sexo antigos e actuais, 80% das pessoas que falam em nome da organização são profissionais do sexo e 65% do pessoal são profissionais do sexo LGBTQI+, com os mesmos contratos e condições de trabalho que outros funcionários

Sex workers are involved as follows: 60% of the decision-making body is made up of sex workers, this includes former and current sex workers, 80% of the people who speak on behalf of the organisation are sex workers and 65% of the staff are LGBTQI+ sex workers, with the same contracts and working conditions as other staff.

Which of NSWP priority areas does your organisation work on?
Oppose the criminalisation and other legal oppression of sex work and support its recognition as work
Advocate for universal access to health services, including primary health care, HIV and sexual and reproductive health services
Speak out about violence against sex workers, including violence from police, institutions, clients, and intimate partners, while challenging the myth that sex work is inherently gender-based violence
Oppose human rights abuses, including coercive programming, mandatory testing, raids and forced rehabilitation
Challenge stigma and discrimination against sex workers, their families and partners, and others involved in sex work
Advocate for the economic empowerment and social inclusion of sex workers as sex workers
What are the two main challenges that the sex workers you work with face

Os seus maiores desafios tem sido a falta recursos técnico, recurso financeiro e sem esquecer a falta de apoio politico, bem como se sabe em Angola o trabalho de sexo não e previsto na lei como crime, mas também não há  existência de leis que a favor do trabalho de sexo como um trabalho bem como a falta de politicas publicas para dar resposta as violências que pessoas trabalhadoras de sexo LGBTQI+ sofrem nos pontos focais.

Our biggest challenges have been the lack of technical resources, financial resources and, without forgetting, the lack of political support. It is known that in Angola sex work is not provided for by law as a crime, but there are also no laws in favor of sex work as a job, as well as the lack of public policies to respond to the violence that LGBTQI+ sex workers suffer in focal points.

 

Describe other areas of your work

Nós ATSA trabalhamos  no sentido de mudar os direitos dos trabalhadores do sexo no governo, nas políticas, nas leis, na aplicação, nos sistemas jurídicos, na prestação de serviços ou na opinião pública, aumentar a visibilidade das preocupações locais e nacionais nos principais espaços de defesa regionais para melhorar os direitos humanos e as condições de trabalho dos trabalhadores do sexo.

We ATSA work to change sex workers’ rights in government, policies, laws, enforcement, legal systems, service delivery or public opinion, raise the visibility of local and national concerns in key regional advocacy spaces to improve the human rights and working conditions of sex workers.

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Angola