TAG: sex work
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 […]
Read moreUN 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.
Read moreProstitution, 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 […]
Read more“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.
Read moreWorld 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 […]
Read moreBrazilian 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreLetter 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).
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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.
Read moreArgentina uncategorized: Debates about human trafficking, prostitution and sex work
Read the article “Argentina uncategorized: Debates about human trafficking, prostitution and sex work,” by Carolina Justo von Lurzer and Santiago Morcillo, on the debate organized by the Sexualities Studies Group of the Gino Germani Research Institute of the University of Buenos Aires to discuss the public policies related to prostitution, after president Cristina Fernandez Kirchner announced the enactment of the decree 936/11, which prohibits advertisements that promote sexual services in all media.
Read moreMore on the Human Rights of sex workers and LGBT individuals in USA
XXXXXXX SPW has contacted Serra Sippel, director of CHANGE: Center for Health and Gender Equity, and asked her what are the practical implications of the positive reaction expressed by the Obama administration to the critiques raised during the US UPR in relation to the prostitution pledge attached to the American HIV global policy. XXXXX In […]
Read moreU.S. recognizes Human Rights of sex workers and LGBT individuals*
USA: After the United Nations evaluation of the United States’ human rights record, the U.S. released a report to the U.N. affirming that “no one should face violence or discrimination in access to public services based on sexual orientation or their status as a person in prostitution.”
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