community-based organising

SWAI launches new campaign to mark two years of criminalisation of clients

Submitted by NSWP on 27th March 2019

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland has launched a new social media campaign to highlight the impact of laws criminalising the purchase of sexual services in the Republic of Ireland, which were introduced in 2017. The campaign highlights the increase in violence documented among sex workers since the introduction of the laws, and calls on the government to decriminalise sex work to ensure safety for sex workers.

Sex Work Digest - Issue 24

Submitted by NSWP on 26th March 2019

This is the 24th issue of NSWP's quarterly newsletter ‘Sex Work Digest’, covering the period January - March 2019.

New coalition calls for decriminalisation of sex work in New York

Submitted by NSWP on 27th February 2019

A new coalition is calling for the decriminalisation of sex work in New York. Decrim NY was officially launched at the end of February, led by people in the sex trades "whether through choice, circumstance, or coercion".

NSWP joins international alliance to organise HIV2020

Submitted by NSWP on 10th December 2018

NSWP has joined an alliance of key population-led networks, networks of people living with HIV, treatment activists, and supporters has formed to organise an international community-led HIV conference in 2020, following the decision to host the 2020 International AIDS Conference in the USA.

HIV2020: NSWP joins international alliance to organise alternative community-led conference in 2020

Submitted by NSWP on 10th December 2018

An alliance of key population-led networks, networks of people living with HIV, treatment activists, and supporters has formed to organise an international community-led HIV conference in 2020, following the decision to host the 2020 International AIDS Conference in the USA.

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HIV2020 Information Note, MPact - 2018

Spanish National Court bans sex worker union

Submitted by NSWP on 22nd November 2018

The Spanish National Court has ruled against sex worker organisation OTRAS, who applied to be recognised as a trade union in August. On Wednesday, the National Court said recognition of sex workers in a union would ‘amount to the exploitation of prostitution’.

Sex workers organise international day of action in memory of Vanessa Campos

Submitted by NSWP on 20th September 2018

Sex worker groups have organised an international day of action on 21st September to honour the memory of Vanessa Campos, a sex worker who was killed in Paris in August.

NSWP congratulates Catherine Healy on being made a Dame for services to the rights of sex workers

Submitted by NSWP on 6th June 2018

NSWP congratulates Catherine Healy from New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective (NZPC) on being made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the rights of sex workers.

USA sex workers resist closures of strip clubs

Submitted by NSWP on 21st March 2018

Efforts to resist the closing of strip clubs in the US are ongoing. Recent police raids have prompted a spotlight on New Orleans, Louisiana (NOLA) in recent months, as NOLA-based sex workers speak out against “tough on crime” politics affecting their right to work safely.

Sex workers organise alternative gynaecology workshop

Submitted by NSWP on 21st February 2018

Using WhatsApp groups and other virtual networks, independent sex workers in Mexico organised a workshop with two main goals: to build community and to learn things that mainstream gynaecology often hides.