Resources
NSWP collects resources about sex work and makes them available on our website. You can search NSWP’s online resource library via themes, resource types, language, region and year. The resource types include NSWP publications, member publications, international guidelines, research papers and other publications.
NSWP publications include a range of resources:
- Briefing Papers and Community Guides examine issues affecting sex workers globally and provide recommendations for policy and practices. They are developed through sex worker-led policy analysis and an in-depth consultation process with NSWP members.
- Policy Briefs and Community Guides examine issues affecting sex workers globally and provide recommendations for policy and practices. They are developed through sex worker-led policy analysis and e-consultation with NSWP members.
- Global and Regional Reports document the lived experiences of sex workers on particular issues and make recommendations for future policy and good practices.
- Research for Sex Work is a peer-reviewed journal, which explores a different theme in each issue.
- The Sex Work Digest provides a quarterly round up of news stories, events and other information relating to sex work issues.
- Smart Guides provide basic information on key issues that affect sex workers globally.
- Case Studies reflect on the results and lessons learnt of activities and policies affecting the lives of sex workers.
- Statements provide responses from NSWP and our members to emerging global issues that undermine sex workers’ human rights.
- NSWP documents include organisational documents such as NSWP Strategic Plans and Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and NSWP Consensus Statement.
NSWP publications that are available in Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish are featured on the language-specific sections of this website.
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Support Sex Workers’ Health & Human Rights: An Infographic of Evidence-Based Recommendations for Service Providers - 2021
Theme: Health, Human Rights
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Support Sex Workers’ Health & Human Rights: An Infographic of Evidence-Based Recommendations for Researchers - 2021
Theme: Health, Human Rights
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Support Sex Workers’ Health & Human Rights: An Infographic of Evidence-Based Recommendations for Policy Makers - 2021
Theme: Health, Human Rights, Legislation and Policy
The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) strongly supports efforts to decriminalise sex work that have been put forward by the Government of Malta. We reiterate the need for a human rights-based approach to sex work and encourage the Maltese government to continue with the law reform towards the full decriminalisation of sex work.
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NSWP Statement of Support for the Decriminalisation of Sex Work in Malta, NSWP - 2020
Theme: Legislation and Policy
As a global network committed to ending exploitation and abuse, NSWP strongly condemns the regressive and misinformed measures promoted within the CEDAW Committee’s General Recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration.
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NSWP Statement on CEDAW committee general recommendation no. 38 (2020) on trafficking in women and girls, NSWP - 2020
Theme: Migration & Trafficking
Produced by NSWP and International Women’s Right Actions Watch Asia Pacific, this series of infographics, compiled in PDF format, aims to raise public awareness about the deeply negative impact of ‘End Demand’ laws on the human rights of sex workers, and to encourage collective action to demand State accountability for violations of sex workers’ rights.
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Infographic: The Human Rights Violations Behind ‘End Demand’ Laws, NSWP & IWRAW Asia Pacific - 2020
Theme: Legislation and Policy
The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) would like to take this opportunity to express its support for Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, who in July 2020 was appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
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NSWP Statement of Support for Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng - October 2020
Theme: Health, Human Rights, Stigma & Discrimination
Este documento é uma versão traduzida autorizada e não-oficial do documento Community Guide: Shrinking Spaces and Silencing Voices produzido pela Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP). A tradução é de responsabilidade da Agência Piaget para o Desenvolvimento no âmbito do projeto POWER - Promote Sex Workers’ Rights, a qual assume a responsabilidade pelo conteúdo aqui produzido.
Você pode baixar este Guia da comunidade acima.
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Guia Comunitário: Espaços Diminutos e Vozes Silenciadas, APDES / PortoG - 2020
Theme: Legislation and Policy
O Guia Inteligente para profissionais do sexo: Políticas internacionais de afirmação dos direitos relacionados ao trabalho sexual é uma versão para a língua portuguesa do documento Smart Guide: Rights-Affirming International Policies Relating to Sex Work produzido pela NSWP.
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Guia Inteligente Para Profissionais do Sexo Instrumentos Internacionais de Afirmação dos Direitos Relacion, APDES/PortoG - 2020
Theme: Human Rights
This assessment on the impact of COVID-19 on sex workers’ access to health services in Europe and Central Asia was developed by the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) and the Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN) through consultations with their memberhips.
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COVID-19 crisis impact on access to health services for sex workers in Europe and Central Asia, SWAN and ICRSE - 2020
Theme: Health, Human Rights, Stigma & Discrimination
This is the 26th issue of NSWP's quarterly newsletter ‘Sex Work Digest’, covering the period July - September 2019.
STOPAIDS has published a new position paper supporting the decriminalisation of sex work, designed to support STOPAIDS members to advocate for decriminalisation within their own advocacy and programmes, and support the global sex worker rights movement.
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Position paper: Supporting the full decriminalisation of sex work - STOPAIDS, 2019
Theme: Legislation and Policy
This is the 25th issue of NSWP's quarterly newsletter ‘Sex Work Digest’, covering the period April - June 2019.
This is the 24th issue of NSWP's quarterly newsletter ‘Sex Work Digest’, covering the period January - March 2019.
Este recurso é uma tradução comunitária da The Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to SWIT. Você pode acessar este recurso acima ou no site da EANNASO.
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EANNASO Smart Guide to SWIT Community Translation
Theme: Human Rights
NSWP denounces the harassment, arrests and detention of sex workers as part of the recently launched ‘Ujana’ programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Theme: Human Rights, Violence
Este recurso é uma tradução comunitária da NSWP Consensus Statement on Sex Work, Human Rights, and the Law.
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Declaração de Consenso Sobre Trabalho de Sexo, Direitos Humanos, e Lei
Empower Foundation has released a new resource library on their website, comprising books, reports, letters and films on a variety of topics linked to sex workers' rights in Thailand. You can access the full set of resources here (most available in English and Thai).
Theme: Human Rights
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) has published a new report: Sex Workers Organising for Change: Self-representation, community mobilisation, and working conditions.
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Sex Workers Organising for Change, GAATW - 2018
Theme: Human Rights, Labour, Violence