TAG: sex work

Dossier Gabriela Leite

The death of Gabriela Leite, on October 10, meant a great loss for the struggle for the rights of prostitutes, and sexual rights brodaly speaking, in Brazil. Throughout her life Gabriela embodied the struggle for freedom, non discrimination and the right to pleasure and happinness. As a tribute to Gabriela, SPW gathered articles and notes […]

Sex worker rights groups question ethics of Equality Now funded project

Anti-sex work group, Equality Now, recently launched an attack on the UN over recommendations to decriminalise sex work in two reports on HIV and Sex Work. Following relentless campaigning by Equality Now to undo the work that the UN has done in the area of HIV and key populations, UN Women released a statement supporting […]

Legalizing Prostitution: New Zealand’s Example

Learn more about the effects brought by the decriminalization of prostitution in New Zeland. Here.

Legalizing Prostitution: New Zealand’s Example

“It has been ten years since New Zealand parliamentarians, after considerable debate and encouragement from sex workers, mainstream women’s organizations, and public health advocates, voted for changes to the laws governing prostitution. The Prostitution Reform Act 2003 (PRA) heralded a significant turnaround in approach, repealing laws that had been used to criminalize sex workers and created […]

UN Women: “Sex work is not trafficking”

UN Women has supported sex workers in response to Equality Now’s anti-sex worker campaign. The statement recognize the rights of sex workers by striving to ensure safety in and through the workplace, so that they can be free from exploitation, violence and coercion. Click here to learn more.

Prostitution, love and market

Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights brough interviews with scholars (Sealing Cheng and Thaddeus Blanchette) working on the connections between love, prostitution and market. Read the interview with Sealing Cheng (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong). Read interview (in Portuguese) with Thaddeus Blanchette (Federal University of Rio de […]

“The End(s) of Activism? Sexual Rights and the Brazilian Workers Party”

Read the article, by SPW partner Raphael de la Dehesa, in which he discuss brazilian sexual and reprodutive rights landscape. Although being hailed as a global leader on these issues, national context draws another image. Click here to read it.

World facts highlighted by SPW on September

During the month of September, Sexuality Policy Watch has followed the global landscape of sexual and reproductive rights. In the Latin American scene, we highlighted the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean,which is part of the review process that will culminate with the Cairo+20 Conference in 2014. We published […]

Brazilian bill legalizes and regulates prostitution

The political history of prostitution in Brazil has been winding. In recent years, the hegemony of discourses on sexual exploitation and trafficking for sexual purposes has led the debate once more to the realm of moral panics. However, a bill proposed by lawmaker Jean Wyllys (PSOL – RJ) intends to resume the discussion in pluralistic […]

The Global Network of Sex Work Projects criticism on Equality Now

The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) has launched a statement on the attacks made by Equality Now on UN recommendation calling for decriminalisation of sex work. NSWP criticized “the irresponsible and deliberate conflation of sex work with trafficking; the continued promotion of the failed Swedish model as a ‘solution’; the denial of the […]

Letter Repudiating the Ministry of Health’s Censorship of the Campaign about Prostitution and HIV/AIDS

Read the “Letter Repudiating the Ministry of Health’s Censorship of the Campaign about Prostitution and HIV/AIDS”, written by the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association – ABIA, after the Ministry of Health announced its censorship of the campaign about prostitution and HIV/AIDS launched on International Prostitutes Day (June 2nd).

More than 1,000 sex workers participated at the Sex Worker Freedom Festival, in India

India: Though sex workers weren’t even permitted to participate, they managed to take a stand at the International AIDS Conference, which took place in USA, in july 2012. Besides, more than 1,000 sex workers from India and other nations convened in Kolkata for the “Sex Worker Freedom Festival”. Read more.