TAG: sex work

13th AWID International Forum: Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice

The 13th AWID International Forum (Bahia, Brazil) will be a historic global gathering of women’s rights and social justice activists and movements. Click here for registration.

‘Reflecting on Ten Years of Sex Workers’ Rights in Europe’ – 30 November 2015, European Parliament

2005–2015: reflecting on ten years of Sex workers’ rights in Europe Monday 30 November 2015 · 15:00 – 17:00 European Parliament · Paul Henri Spaak (PHS) 1 C 47 A seminar by the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) Places will be limited. We advise you to PRE-REGISTER ONLINE by Tuesday the 24th […]

Summary of the New Zealand Prostitution Reform Act

The Prostitution Reform Act (PRA) came into operation in New Zealand in June, 2003. The PRA decriminalised prostitution; created a framework to safe guard the human rights of sex workers; promoted the welfare and occupational health and safety of sex workers; and prohibited the use in prostitution of persons under 18 years of age. The […]

Call for Abstracts – Research for Sex Work

Research for Sex Work is a peer-reviewed international journal that incorporates community-led research and lived experiences, and reports on sex work within a rights-based framework. NSWP Is seeking contributions that document and reflect on sex workers’ resistance and resilience to various forms of oppression. Sex workers experience legal, social, and political oppression, and yet the […]

Sex Work Digest – Issue 13

The 13th issue of NSWP’s quarterly newsletter ‘Sex Work Digest’ covers the period July – September 2015. Features in this issue include: Decriminalisation updates from Scotland, New South Wales & South Africa; the raid at Rentboy.com; Amnesty International’s resolution on sex work; and the WHO early release guideline on ART and PrEP. Click here to […]

The Sexual Politics Landscape in September 2015

At the global stage, one even to be highlighted was the launching of the Sex Work Law Map, produced by the Institute of Development Studies. It provides a perspective on female sex work by displaying a detailed summary of the laws, regulations and policies in over 75 countries. The novel IDS research tool was made […]

Vital new resource on sex work law will help sex workers globally to realise their rights

A new Sex Work Law Map, developed by the Sexuality, Poverty and Law Programme at the Institute of Development Studies, has been launched that provides a global perspective on female sex work by displaying a detailed summary of the laws, regulations and policies in over 75 countries. It is hoped that more accurate and comprehensive […]

How Sex Workers’ Rights Made the Mainstream

When law enforcement targets sex workers and the websites they use, mainstream outlets and organizations tend to give them a pass. But with the raid on Rentboy.com, that script has flipped.

The Sexual Politics landscape in August 2015 and early September

SPW has the great pleasure to announce the publication of Working Paper nº 11 Emerging Powers, Sexuality and Human Rights: Fumbling around the elephant. Authored by Sonia Corrêa and akshay khanna, the article is part of a series of analyses developed by the project Emerging powers, sexuality and human rights. The other products of this […]

Amnesty policy on sex work continues to spark debates

After prompting a major flare of global controversies, Amnesty International’s draft policy supporting the decriminalization of sex work was voted and approved at organization’s International Council Meeting, in Dublin, in early August. Even so the debate on sex work continued. In fact, in a number of countries, as in the case of Brazil, the topic […]

Adriana and the “Business of Sex”

José Miguel Olivar Nieto, the author of the drawing Adriana is a social communicator. He has a master degree in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia) and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Since the year 2000 he has worked in research and in […]

NSWP Publishes 14th Issue of Research for Sex Work

The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP ) has announced the publication of the 14th issue of Research for Sex Work, ‘Sex Work is Work’. It is a publication intended for sex workers, activists, health workers, researchers, NGO staff and policymakers. It is published annually by the NSWP and is governed by an Editorial […]