ICRSE Response to UN Women Consultation

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2016

The International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) submitted the following response to the UN Women consultation on "sex work, sex trade, and prostitution." In their preamble, ICRSE criticizes UN Women's lack of meaningful consultation with sex workers in the development of their policy. They remind UN Women that the UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), of which UN Women is a Co-Sponsor, already has developed a sex work policy that is founded in UN Human Rights treaties. The UNAIDS support the decriminalisation of sex work and removal of all the discriminatory criminal and administrative laws targeting sex workers. ICRSE argues this should be the minimum standard and starting point of any further elaboration of UN Women’s approach to sex work.

In addition to this response, NSWP has published a response to UN Women's online consultation here and has developed a draft framework for a UN Women human rights affirming approach to sex work in response to a UN women e-consultation. NSWP is also petitioning UN Women to meaningfully consult sex workers in the development of their policy.

You can download this 5 page submission above. This submission is available in English.

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