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Animation: NSWP Consensus Statement on Sex Work, Human Rights, and the Law

The Consensus Statement details eight fundamental rights that sex worker-led groups from around the world identify as crucial targets for their activism and advocacy. Following a global consultation with members, the NSWP Consensus Statement reaffirms NSWP ’s global advocacy platform for sex work, human rights and the law.

The Consensus Statement animation is a new tool for sex workers' advocacy worldwide. It was designed and created by Smo Sienkiewicz.

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Theme: Economic Empowerment , Health, Human Rights, Labour, Legislation and Policy, Migration & Trafficking, Stigma & Discrimination, Violence

Infographic: NSWP Consensus Statement on Sex Work, Human Rights, and the Law

The Consensus Statement details eight fundamental rights that sex worker-led groups from around the world identify as crucial targets for their activism and advocacy. Following a global consultation with members, the NSWP Consensus Statement reaffirms NSWP ’s global advocacy platform for sex work, human rights and the law.

The Consensus Statement infographic is a new tool for sex workers' advocacy worldwide. It was designed and created by Smo Sienkiewicz.

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Infographic: NSWP Consensus Statement on Sex Work, Human Rights, and the Law, NSWP - 2021

Theme: Economic Empowerment , Health, Human Rights, Labour, Legislation and Policy, Migration & Trafficking, Stigma & Discrimination, Violence

Policy Brief: The Impact of ‘End Demand’ Legislation on Women Sex Workers

A growing number of countries are considering or implementing sex work law reform focusing on ‘ending demand’, which criminalises the purchase of sexual services. This Policy Brief outlines the impact of ‘end demand’ legislation on the human rights of female sex workers, through research and testimony from NSWP members in countries where paying for sex is criminalised. This document explores how these laws not only fail to promote gender equality for women who sell sex, but actively prevent the realisation of their human rights.

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Policy Brief: The Impact of ‘End Demand’ Legislation on Women Sex Workers

Theme: Legislation and Policy

The Right Evidence: Sex Work, Violence and HIV in ASIA

The regional report of this multi-country study contains findings and recommendations to address violence experienced by sex workers in Asia. Sex workers experience extreme physical, sexual, emotional and economic violence at work, in health care and custodial settings, in their neighbourhoods and in their homes. This violence denies sex workers their fundamental human rights — to equal protection under the law; protection against torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment; and their right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

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Rights-Evidence-Report-2015-final.pdf

Theme: Health, Legislation and Policy, Violence

Public Health Crisis: The Impact of Using Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution in New York City

PROS Network (Providers and Resources Offering Services to sex workers) participated in two studies in New York around the impact of policies that use of condoms as ‘evidence of prostitution’. This report written by the PROS Network and Leigh Tomppert of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center, which was funded by Open Society Foundation and the Elton John Foundation, compares the findings of the two studies.

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20120417-public-health-crisis[1].pdf

Theme: Legislation and Policy

Report on the Impact of China's 2010 "Strike Hard Campaign": A Crackdown on Sex Work

Source: AsiaCatalyst.org

The 2010 "Strike Hard Campaign" (police crackdowns) put in place a zero tolerance policy on sex work, gambling and drugs all across China. While many brothels and popular clubs were closed ultimately sex workers continued work out in more remote areas. This geographic shift cut people off from essential health services, HIV/AIDS education, and even funeral services for women who die while cut off from their families.

Here in its first major report The China Sex Worker Organization Network Forum trained its members to document the effects of the crackdown.

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EN_Research_on_the_Impact_of_Crackdown_on_Sex_Work_and_HIV_Interventions_in_China[1].pdf

Theme: Health, Legislation and Policy, Stigma & Discrimination, Violence

Research for Sex Work 8: Sex Work and Law Enforcement

Research for Sex Work 8: Sex Work and Law Enforcement is a peer-reviewed publication for sex workers, activists, health workers, researchers, NGO staff and policy makers. It is available in English. All issues of Research for Sex Work can be found here.

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research-for-sex-work-8-english.pdf

Theme: Legislation and Policy, Stigma & Discrimination, Violence