TAG: sex work

Sex Workers in Nicaragua Break the Silence and Gain Rights

After living in the shadows, thousands of Nicaraguan sex workers have broken their silence, won support from state institutions and gained new respect for their rights.

The gay sex worker who defied sharia law in Banda Aceh to organize

Faisal Riza is a national organizer for the Organisasi Perubahan Sosial Indonesia (the Organization for Social Change, or OPSI) — an Indonesian human rights initiative focusing on the welfare of sex workers. Anna Marie Sterling JAKARTA, Indonesia — Faisal Riza started as a sex worker in one of the riskiest possible places for any kind of transgressive behavior: Aceh, a […]

International Sex Workers Day

June 3rd marked International Sex Workers Day. In Brazil the date was commemorated in many places. In Belém do Pará it also marked the anniversary of GEMPAC onde of the oldest sex workers’s organizations in the country (in Portuguese). To learn about June 3rd events around the world check the NSWP website.

Women’s Funding Network’s Sex-Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Read the article Women’s Funding Network’s Sex-Trafficking Study Is Junk Science, by Nick Pinto, on study regarding sex trafficking.

Sex workers unite to defy stigma

The day the military raided Amina Danait’s* village in Muguru na Nyori will forever remain etched in her mind. Soldiers had been deployed to search for alleged illegally held guns in her village in Northern Kenya. But they also found girls like Amina and, as she recounts, they raped them. “The soldiers paraded the men outside […]

Swedish Prostitution Law Targets Buyers, but Some Say It Hurts Sellers

By DAVID CROUCH MARCH 14, 2015 GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Not far from the Sticky Fingers nightclub, three Romanian women were hunched against the cold on a street corner. When a man walked by, the women, in broken Swedish and English, tried to tempt him to buy sex. On this dismal street in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second-largest city, […]

The majority of sex workers enjoy their job – why should we find that surprising?

Selling sex is not inherently harmful or dangerous. Criminalising it would be Prevalent discourse would have you believe that sex workers are problems to deal with, or victims to ‘save’. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, when you ask sex workers about their job satisfaction and working conditions – as a […]

Canada’s Flawed Sex Trade Law

By JULIE KAYE JAN. 20, 2015 Photo CreditMark Blinch/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta — In December, a new prostitution law came into force in Canada. The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, or Bill C-36, criminalizes the purchase (but not the sale) of sexual services, and restricts the advertisement of sexual […]

AIDS Prevention missing in the 2014 Brazil World Cup – ABIA expresses its views on the findings of the World Cup study released by the Observatory of Prostitution

The Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for Aids (ABIA) expresses its concern about the results of the survey – released in partnership with the Observatory of prostitution -, which assessed the effects of the 2014 World Cup on the Brazilian prostitution landscape.

Brazilian World Cup impact on prostitution and sex trade

The Observatory of Prostitution has published a report revealing the impacts on prostitution and sex trade arising from Brazilian World Cup during June and July. It turns out that the vast majority of sex workers considered the event to be bad for the business. The report also analyses the actions of police, governmental organizations and […]

The Evidence Is In: Decriminalizing Sex Work Is Critical to Public Health

by Anna Forbes and Sarah Elspeth Patterson August 13, 2014 – 3:54 pm During the 2014 International AIDS conference, The Lancet medical journal released a series of articles focused exclusively on HIV and sex work. One study by Kate Shannon et al., demonstrates that decriminalization of sex work could reduce HIV infections by 33 to 46 […]

Working paper, No. 3 – Interrogating ‘Sexualities’ at Beijing+10?, by Angela Collet

SPW Working Paper 3, “Interrogating ‘Sexualities’ at Beijing+10?, written by Angela Collet, is an anlysis on the CSW and Beijing+10 process. Read it here.