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NSWP has launched an update to our map of
#SexWork
laws around the world.
The map provides accurate and up to date information that can inform and support national and global advocacy.
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Today is International Sex Workers’ Day.
ISWD is held to mark the 1975 occupation of Saint-Nizier Church by around 100 sex workers, protesting their criminalised & exploitative living conditions. Sex workers continue to mark the day by calling for fulfilment of their rights.
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Today is Sex Worker Pride, an opportunity to celebrate & share stories of sex workers’ self-determination and the achievements of the sex worker rights movement.
Throughout the day we'll be sharing the words of some of our members & celebrating all that they do.
#SexWorkerPride
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Today is International Sex Workers’ Day.
ISWD is held to mark the 1975 occupation of Saint-Nizier Church by around 100 sex workers, protesting their criminalised & exploitative living conditions.
Sex workers continue to mark the day by calling for fulfilment of their rights.
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Today is International Sex Workers’ Day.
ISWD is held to mark the 1975 occupation of Saint-Nizier Church by around 100 sex workers, protesting their criminalised & exploitative living conditions.
Sex workers continue to mark the day by calling for fulfilment of their rights.
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Today is International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
Sex worker-led groups around the world are holding events and actions to mark this day and call attention to the theme of 'labour'.
Illustration by Molly Hankinson.
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
Is your feminism inclusive of sex workers?
When sex workers’ voices are denied in public-life, it is to the detriment of the empowerment of all women.
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Today is International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
Sex worker-led groups around the world are holding events and actions to mark this day and call attention to the theme of 'labour'.
Illustration by Molly Hankinson.
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Sex workers in India celebrate Supreme Court ruling recognising sex work as a ‘profession’.
Read more here:
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Today is International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
To mark the day, NSWP have launched new infographic and animation formats of key advocacy tools. Each was designed and created by Smo Sienkiewicz.
Explore more here:
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Tomorrow is International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
Sex worker-led groups around the world will be holding events and actions to mark this day and call attention to the theme of 'labour'.
Illustration by Molly Hankinson.
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Today is International Sex Workers’ Day.
ISWD is held to mark the 1975 occupation of Saint-Nizier Church by around 100 sex workers protesting their criminalised & exploitative living conditions. Sex workers continue to mark the day by calling for fulfilment of their rights.
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Today we celebrate Sex Worker Pride!
Sex Worker Pride extends to all marginalised by criminalisation, discrimination and stigma across the sex worker movement and celebrates the diversity within our community.
Image by Molly Hankinson
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Today marks the 20th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
Today our members call attention to hate crimes committed against sex workers all over the world.
Image by Molly Hankinson
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This animation looks at the harms caused to sex workers in countries where the Nordic Model has been introduced. Designed and created by Smo Sienkiewicz.
Find out more:
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Today, in honour of
#internationalsexworkersrightsday
we will share some of our members work campaigning for sex workers' labour rights this year
#sexworkiswork
#decrimnow
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Today is International Sex Workers' Rights Day!
We're sharing news and updates from NSWP members as they mark the day.
If you're planning an event or an action, let us know.
Tomorrow is International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
Sex worker-led groups around the world will be holding events and actions to mark this day and call attention to the theme of 'labour'.
Illustration by Molly Hankinson.
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An
#InternationalWomensDay
reminder:
👏🏽Sex 👏🏽Worker 👏🏽Rights 👏🏽are 👏🏽Human 👏🏽Rights
👏🏽Sex 👏🏽Worker 👏🏽Rights 👏🏽are 👏🏽Human 👏🏽Rights
👏🏽Sex 👏🏽Worker 👏🏽Rights 👏🏽are 👏🏽Human 👏🏽Rights
👏🏽Sex 👏🏽Worker 👏🏽Rights 👏🏽are 👏🏽Human 👏🏽Rights
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The conflation of sex work and human trafficking leads to the implementation of inappropriate responses that fails in realising rights, and can contribute to violence and oppression.
#WeAreNotProstituted
#DecrimSexWork
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Alongside our map of
#SexWork
laws around the world (), we have just published 7 country case studies on how laws work on the streets - from Mexico, Senegal, Greece, Malaysia, France, Kyrgyzstan and Aotearoa New Zealand
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Today marks the 18th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
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The struggles for sex workers’ & women’s rights are innately interconnected.
Worldwide, most sex workers are women, who share challenges in their fight for justice, equality, & the right to be free from violence, stigma, & discrimination.
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#IWD2024
Image by Molly Hankinson
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1. Sex workers have the right to associate and organise.
Criminalisation and discrimination against sex workers reduces sex workers' capacity to organise to improve sex workers’ health and safety
#ISWRD
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Here's the full programme for the Sex Worker Networking Zone at
#AIDS2018
: a daily programme of activities showcasing sex worker groups from around the world. Join us at 10:00, 14:00 and 16:00 each day!
#SexWorkersatAIDS2018
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Legalisation and decriminalisation are two distinct legislative models, yet they are often misunderstood and conflated.
This guide defines and clarifies the differences and dispels common myths surrounding decriminalisation.
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Conflation of sex work and 'sexual exploitation' can led to extremely harmful legislation that limits sex workers' access to justice and services, and prevents them from organising for better work conditions or asserting their human and labour rights
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Tuesday 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers - read more about what sex workers are doing to mark the day:
#IDEVASW
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The full decriminalisation of sex work will ensure that women sex workers are not left behind as we strive towards gender equality for all
#DecrimSexWork
#WeAreNotProstituted
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We've just published a new paper, outlining how conflating sex work with 'sexual exploitation' causes harm to sex workers.
Read more:
#SexWork
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NSWP is hosting a panel discussion of global and regional sex worker leaders to explore what is necessary to sustain and grow the sex worker-led movement, organisations and networks.
Tues 19th September, 2pm BST.
Register here:
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Decriminalising sex work is essential to the realisation of reproductive justice. My body, my choice.
#SexWorkIsWork
#WeAreNotProstituted
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Misinformation surrounding sex workers, sex work, and health leads to a range of negative consequences for sex workers. Learn more in NSWP's Briefing Paper on The Consequences of Misinformation about Sex Work and Sex Workers.
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Coming up on 2nd June is International Sex Workers' Day - started in 1975 when 100 sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, to protest against violence and criminalisation. Logo by Molly Hankinson.
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Feminist movements and sex worker rights movements have many things in common: campaigning for women's agency and bodily autonomy, for freedom from violence and discrimination, for rights at work and to work.
Amplify the voices of sex workers this
#InternationalWomensDay
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NSWP members to mark International Sex Workers’ Rights Day on 3rd March 2024:
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Confused about the difference between decriminalisation and legalisation?
Read more about the laws and policies affecting
#sexwork
in our Briefing Paper:
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Sex workers' rights are human rights. As all people, their rights to life, health, privacy, and bodily autonomy should be respected
#WeAreNotProstituted
#DecrimSexWork
Consensus Statement on Sex Work, Human Rights and the Law:
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This animation looks at the harms caused to sex workers in countries where the 'Nordic Model' has been introduced.
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Today we mark Sex Worker Pride. This day is an opportunity to share stories of sex workers’ self-determination and the achievements of the sex worker rights movement.
We'll be sharing news from NSWP members. Get involved using
#SexWorkerPride
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Do you know the differences between legalisation and decriminalisation?
NSWP's new guide defines and clarifies the differences and dispels common myths surrounding decriminalisation.
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India’s Supreme Court rules that sex workers have the right to refuse services
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Join us tomorrow to celebrate Sex Worker Pride.
Sex Worker Pride extends to all marginalised by criminalisation, discrimination and stigma across the sex worker movement and celebrates the diversity within our community.
Image by Molly Hankinson
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Sex workers who use drugs experience ‘double stigma’, which can become triple and quadruple stigma in the context of people living with HIV and/or being LGBT
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2. Sex workers have the right to be protected by the law.
Legal oppression and criminalisation force sex workers into isolation and dangerous working conditions, factors that contribute to sex workers being targeted for acts of violence
#ISWRD
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NSWP have released a statement on the Conflation of Sex Work and Trafficking ahead of the High Level Meeting on Trafficking of Persons.
#TraffickingInPersons
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NSWP is launching a fourth International sex worker rights day, Sex Workers’ Pride, on 14th September. Sex Worker Pride is a chance to celebrate sex workers’ self-determination and the achievements of the sex worker rights movement. Read more:
#SexWork
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2nd June is International Sex Workers' Day - started in 1975 when 100 sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, to protest against violence and criminalisation.
Click here for info on what NSWP members are doing to mark the day this year:
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“Sex workers are spied on, arrested, cut off from our families, [have] our savings confiscated, interrogated, imprisoned… all in the name of ‘protection against
#trafficking
’. It’s rubbing salt into the wound that this is called helping us"
#sexwork
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NSWP is co-sponsoring the launch of the new position paper from
@UN_WGDAWG
: 'Eliminating discrimination against sex workers and securing their human rights'.
📅11 October 2023, 10am CET
📍Zoom/Geneva
✍️Register for Zoom by sending an email to: hrc-wg-discriminationwomen
@un
.org
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Read our statement of support for the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls’ and their position paper on Eliminating Discrimination Against Sex Workers and Securing their Human Rights.
@UN_HRC
@volker_turk
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Join us in celebrating Sex Worker Pride on Tuesday 14 September.
Sex Worker Pride extends to all marginalised by criminalisation, discrimination and stigma across the sex worker movement and celebrates the diversity within our community.
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Today marks the 17th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
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The criminalisation of sex work remains one of the greatest barriers to sex workers’ access to sexual and reproductive health services
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Monday 17th December is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Read about the day and what sex worker organisations are doing to mark
#IDEVASW
:
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Sex workers are routinely denied their human rights all over the world. Sex workers’ human rights must be protected
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If we recognised sex work as work, workers would be more able to set industry standards, and provide legal support to those who are exploited
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Sex workers in Belgium celebrate historic vote for Decriminalisation in parliament:
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A community response to the recent murders of sex workers in France.
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This Briefing Paper on Misinformation About Sex Work examines the most common forms of misinformation about sex work and sex workers, as well as their impacts on policy, research, public discourse, and sex workers’ everyday lives.
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International Sex Workers' Day is tomorrow!
How are you marking the day?
Coming up on 2nd June is International Sex Workers' Day - started in 1975 when 100 sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, to protest against violence and criminalisation. Logo by Molly Hankinson.
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Sex work must be recognised as work and all aspects decriminalised to ensure that sex workers can access the same protections, financial support, and labour rights as all other workers.
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Sex workers must not be left behind in the response to COVID-19.
Read our joint statement with UNAIDS:
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Sex workers mark 17th December 2019: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
#IDEVASW
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Sex worker communities create a foundation for addressing violence through sex worker empowerment, capacity building, information and skill sharing
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The argument that sex workers should be afforded the same civil and labour rights as all workers, regardless of occupation, is central to the demand for decriminalisation
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STAR- STAR have supported their community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic by raising funds for food and hygiene packages.
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Today is the inaugural
#SexWorkerPride
! We will be sharing messages from our members around the world, celebrating sex workers’ achievements and self-determination
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The Nordic Model leads to clients changing their behaviour to avoid fines and arrest, which can jeopardise sex workers' safety. For outdoor sex workers, this includes working in more isolated areas
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First Swedish sex worker conference discusses the impact of the Nordic Model, and launches new community report: "Twenty years of failing sex workers"
#SexWork
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Join us for a discussion on 'Feminist Perspectives on Sex Work' Thursday March 12th. Register here:
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If the Nordic Model improved sex workers' lives, sex workers would support it (
@ScotPep
quoted in our Smart Guide to Challenging the Nordic Model)
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Sex workers’ already precarious situation has been heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
NSWP is conducting a survey to enable us to monitor the impact on sex workers around the world. Survey available in English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Chinese.
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NSWP Statement on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
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Since sex work is widely criminalised, most sex workers are denied access to the benefits and rights afforded to other workers under labour laws and face the risk of criminalisation, detention, deportation and legal sanction.
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Migrant sex workers' human rights are often overlooked in favour of driving broader political agendas to restrict migration and criminalise sex work
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"Sex workers should be the driving force behind anti-
#trafficking
policies, not the collateral damage of measures that aim to save them" - great new article from
@sexworkeurope
#SexWork
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Sex workers in Queensland, Australia celebrate as sex work decriminalised after decades of campaigning:
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Sex work must be recognised as work and all aspects decriminalised to ensure that sex workers can access the same social protections, emergency financial support, and labour rights as all other workers.
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2nd June is International Sex Workers’ Day. Today we will be tweeting about NSWP’s goals for all our work around the world. You can also read what our members are doing today on our website:
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NSWP is saddened by the passing of Dr Smarajit Jana.
He was a champion of the human rights of sex workers, working with sex workers in Kolkata to found DMSC in the 1990s, which is now the largest sex worker collective in the world.
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In most countries, sex work is not legally recognised as work, which restricts sex workers’ ability to be recognised as workers with human and labour rights, and can lead to unsafe and exploitative working conditions.
All illustrations by Molly Hankinson
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#HumanRightsDay
statement from
@Winnie_Byanyima
@UNAIDS
calls for decriminalisation of sex work and repeal of other laws targeting key populations
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In Sweden and Norway, where the purchase of sex is criminalised but selling sex is not, the authorities use third party laws to harass sex workers
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Sex workers call on
@GooglePlay
to reconsider decision to remove sex worker safety app
@uglymugsie
- screening apps provide essential info for sex workers about potential dangers
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8. Right to Work & Free Choice of Employment
In most countries sex work is not legally recognised as work, which restricts sex workers’ ability to be recognised as workers with human & labour rights and can lead to unsafe, exploitative working conditions.
Img by Molly Hankinson
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Australia's Northern Territory has voted to decriminalise sex work
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