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Year
2019
Fuckförbundet launched a new report - "20 Years Of Failing Sex Workers" - as part of their 2019 conference "Sex Work, Human Rights And Health: Assessing 20 Years Of Swedish Model". It brings together available evidence from sex workers on the impact of the law. Contents include:
- Structural violence against sex workers: increasing stigma, exclusion and discrimination
- Media depictions of sex workers in Sweden
- Exclusion from feminist & LGBTQ/queer organising
- Governmental discourses conflating trafficking for sexual exploitation & sex work
- Unrecognised and unpunished: interpersonal violence against sex workers
- State-sponsored violence: the role of police and immigration authorities
- Exploitation & violence by non-state actors
- Sex workers' right to health impeded: abolition as a healthcare solution
- Services for sex workers: lack of non-judgemental, low threshold provision
- Intersecting stigma & discrimination: barriers to healthcare for sex workers who are migrant, LGBT and/or use drugs
- Client criminalisation beyond beyond Sweden: detrimental effects of a policy export
- Policy recommendations
You can download this 24 page report above or on the Fuckförbundet website. It is available in English.