In this article, Sharmus Outlaw, Jill McCracken, and Penelope Saunders provide an overview of the report Nothing About Us, Without Us: Sex Work, HIV, Policy, and Organizing. It focuses on the experiences of transgender people who are also sex workers or are profiled as sex workers and reveals how current HIV policies impact groups of people who are often silenced and excluded from policy debates. It is a joint project with Best Practices Policy Project and Desiree Alliance. This article was published as a part of Research for Sex Work 15: Resistance and Resilience.
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Ishtar Lakhani from SWEAT and Duduzile Dlamini from SISONKE provide an overview of the programming at Mothers for the Future in South Africa. Mothers for the Future is a sex worker-led organisation run by mothers who do sex work. They show how mothers resist oppression and make tangible differences in the lives of mothers. This article was published as a part of Research for Sex Work 15: Resistance and Resilience.
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Mothers for the Future, Lakhani and Dlamini - 2016.pdf
Mothers for the Future, Lakhani and Dlamini - 2016.pdf Theme: Human Rights
This ICRSE briefing paper explores the diverse experiences and realities of LGBT sex workers and the intersection of LGBT rights and sex workers’ rights. It also calls upon the LGBT movement to build an alliance with sex workers and their organisations and actively support sex workers’ rights and the decriminalisation of sex work.
Download this resource: Underserved. Overpoliced. Invisibilised. LGBT Sex Workers Do Matter, ICRSE - 2015.pdf
Underserved. Overpoliced. Invisibilised. LGBT Sex Workers Do Matter, ICRSE - 2015.pdf Theme: Human Rights
This training manual by the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) is specifically designed for sex workers and sex worker-led organisations who want to engage in advocacy and activism on issues related to sex work, HIV and human rights. It can also be used by service providers and allies who want to support meaningful participation and the leadership of sex workers in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of HIV programming.
Download this resource: Training Manual on Sex Work, HIV and Human Rights, ICRSE - 2015.pdf
Training Manual on Sex Work, HIV and Human Rights, ICRSE - 2015.pdf Theme: Health, Human Rights
The Sex Workers' Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN) proudly presents A Guide For Sex Worker Human Rights Defenders. This publication is aimed at sex workers of all genders and backgrounds, sex worker projects, human rights organizations and advocates. It contains practical information on how to start human rights documenting projects, to organize human rights campaigns and to use formal human rights mechanisms.
Download this resource: A Guide For Sex Worker Human Rights Defenders, SWAN - September 2015.pdf, A Guide For Sex Worker Human Rights Defenders RU, SWAN - September 2015.pdf
A Guide For Sex Worker Human Rights Defenders, SWAN - September 2015.pdf, A Guide For Sex Worker Human Rights Defenders RU, SWAN - September 2015.pdf Theme: Human Rights
This resource by SWOP-USA invites people to remember sex workers who are victims of violence. It motivates people to come together to demonstrate against discrimination and marginalisation on 17 December – the International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers.
Download this resource: dec17-toolkit.pdf
dec17-toolkit.pdf Theme: Human Rights, Violence
This 2012 report summarises analysis and reflections from the Empower Foundation in Thailand on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, a U.S. Government’s tool which ranks countries’ anti-trafficking efforts based on their alignment with U.S. policies, including anti-sex work policies.
Download this resource: No More TIPs Please_Empower.pdf
No More TIPs Please_Empower.pdf The 20th bulletin of the DMSC, discussing common financial scams, police violence, and the work done by the All India Network of Sex Workers (AINSW) to tackle HIV, human rights violations by the police, and the stigma that prevents sex workers from accessing services.
Download this resource: DMSC Bulletin20_ 15_Nov_2012.pdf
DMSC Bulletin20_ 15_Nov_2012.pdf Theme: Human Rights
This concise guide to the difference between sex work and trafficking - and what a response to trafficking grounded in sex worker rights looks like - discusses the key differences between sex work and trafficking; the differences that make the habitual conflation of the two not only inaccurate but also a hinderance to tackling actual exploitation, and a threat to the human rights of sex workers.
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KDTD_Human_Trafficking_And_Sex_Work.pdf This is the 3rd edition of the STRASS newsletter, packed with details of their recent and forthcoming activism events in France as well as a round up of other European news realting to sex work.
You can download this 2 page PDF document above. This resource is in English.
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bulletin 3 anglais impr.pdf Theme: Human Rights
The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee is a collective of 65000 female, male and transgender sex workers in West Bengal, India. Their most recent Bulletin (No 22.) includes recent news and coverage of their AGM.
You can download this 4 page pdf Bulletin above (in English).
Download this resource: Bulletin22.pdf
Bulletin22.pdf Theme: Human Rights