Research for Sex Work 15: Resistance and Resilience is a peer-reviewed publication for sex workers, activists, health workers, researchers, NGO staff and policy makers. It is available in English and French. All issues of Research for Sex Work can be found here.
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Research for Sex Work 15, NSWP - 2016.pdf
Research for Sex Work 15, NSWP - 2016.pdf This is a summary of the findings of the Economic Empowerment: Does Rehabilitation Have a Role? briefing paper and the Overcoming Practices that Limit Sex Worker Agency in the Asia Pacific Region briefing paper. In this summary, NSWP reflects on the impact of economic empowerment programmes for sex workers.
Download this resource: Summary: Economic Empowerment Briefing Papers, NSWP - 2015
Summary: Economic Empowerment Briefing Papers, NSWP - 2015 Theme: Economic Empowerment
This is a summary of the Asia and the Pacific regional report on economic and social empowerment and the Africa regional report on economic empowerment programmes for sex workers. In this summary, NSWP reflects on best practices for the economic empowerment of sex workers, focusing on elements of successful economic empowerment programmes and describing lessons learnt from programmes that fail.
Download this resource: Summary Regional Reports Economic Empowerment, NSWP - November 2015.pdf
Summary Regional Reports Economic Empowerment, NSWP - November 2015.pdf Theme: Economic Empowerment
This Africa Regional Report documents case studies of economic empowerment programmes in 6 African countries: Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Nigeria; and Uganda. There are relatively few economic empowerment programmes for sex workers led by sex workers in Africa. As such this regional report evaluates both successful and failed economic empowerment programmes by sex worker-led organisations and non-sex worker-led organisations.
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SUSO Report Africa. final EN.pdf Theme: Economic Empowerment
This briefing paper discusses case studies on economic empowerment programmes for sex workers with rehabilitation elements, documented across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda. The case studies highlight factors that negatively affect sex workers’ participation in economic empowerment programmes and looks at some of the key lessons that have been learnt when implementing economic empowerment programmes for sex workers. A summary is also available.
Download this resource: Briefing Paper: Economic Empowerment: Does Rehabilitation Have a Role?, NSWP - 2015
Briefing Paper: Economic Empowerment: Does Rehabilitation Have a Role?, NSWP - 2015 Theme: Economic Empowerment
This regional report explores economic empowerment programmes in Asia through case studies through nine case studies. It describes good practice examples of sex worker-led economic empowerment projects and the impact of forced rehabilitation programmes on the lives of sex workers. A summary of the regional reports regarding econoic empowerment is also available.
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SUSO Asia Pacific Report_Oct2014.pdf Theme: Economic Empowerment
This paper discusses policies and programmes affecting sex workers that limit their economic empowerment. It aims to frame sex work in terms of labour migration, economics and empowering labour environments, rather than in terms of power, disease and immorality. A summary of this paper is also available.
In Southeast Asia, APNSW observed that sex workers frequently move to faraway lands to find more lucrative work and economic enhancement, but are greatly constrained by anti-trafficking policies framed by a belief that no woman will move willingly to work in sex work. Anti-trafficking laws are often used to limit free movement of women in sex work by raiding and ‘rescuing’ them. Though this is ostensibly done to help them escape traffickers, it is mainly used to ‘correct’ their behaviour.
Download this resource: Briefing Paper: Overcoming Practices that Limit Sex Worker Agency in the Asia Pacific Region, NSWP - 2014
Briefing Paper: Overcoming Practices that Limit Sex Worker Agency in the Asia Pacific Region, NSWP - 2014 Theme: Economic Empowerment