Resources

AIDS 2022, the 24th International AIDS Conference, is taking place in 2022 both in-person and virtually. With this year’s conference being held in Montreal, NSWP member organisation Stella, l’amie de Maimie have produced a special issue of ConStellation—Stella’s annual magazine by and for sex workers and our friends now it’s in 27th year—as a way to orient sex workers and allies to all sex work content at the AIDS conference.

Sisonke South Africa submitted this shadow report in 2020 to the CEDAW committee as a complement to the fifth periodic report submitted by the South African government in October 2019.

Contents include:

NSWP member organisation the English Collective of Prostitutes and Dr Laura Connelly from the University of Salford have published new research that looks at EU Migrant Sex Work in the UK Post-Referendum.  

The research, conducted in 2019, shows that violence, xenophobia and threats of deportation against migrant sex workers from the European Union have risen since the EU Referendum.

Key findings from the research include:

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.

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.

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.

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). 

PION, Norway, with support from NSWP, submitted this shadow report to the 68th CEDAW Session, which took place October-November 2017. The report is based on in-depth interviews, conducted over a two-month period, with sex workers and social service providers. It documents how local administrative laws and the criminalisation of clients and third parties increase stigma and discrimination, impede access to justice and health services, and result in arbitrary deportations and evictions.

Este recurso será de utilidad para los profesionales del sexo que desean la evidencia de que la lucha contra el VIH requiere despenalización, y apoyar de trabajadora sexual auto-organización.

Trabajando Juntos es una guía para aumentar y mejorar la participación significativa del sector comunitario en todos los aspectos de las respuestas nacionales al VIH, con énfasis en la planificación y los procesos de toma de decisiones a nivel nacional.

Trabajando Juntos está basado en la evidencia que el sector comunitario tiene un rol vital en la respuesta al VIH. Sin embargo, las comunidades muchas veces también se benefician del apoyo práctico e intercambio de ideas sobre el fortalecimiento de su coordinación, consulta y representación.

A Copa do Mundo é um pretexto para boatos e disparates sobre tráfico de mulheres exploradas sexualmente, e esses boatos são pretextos para oprimir a prostituição. Esses boatos surgiram na Copa do Mundo de 2006 na Alemanha, na de 2010 na África do Sul e na Copa de 2014 no Brasil, e nada foi comprovado.

Se trata de un folleto sobre la seguridad en el trabajo realizado por profesionales del sexo y organizaciones de cinco países de la UE para profesionales del sexo. El folleto está disponible en búlgaro, inglés, francés, polaco, portugués y español. El folleto se dirige a las trabajadoras sexuales que trabajan en hoteles, apartamentos, burdeles, clubes, bares, salones de masaje, saunas, sex shops y otros lugares de interior. El folleto es el resultado de nuestras experiencias locales. Presenta consejos y consejos relacionados con la seguridad en el trabajo, e información sobre la legislación sobre el trabajo sexual en Bulgaria, Francia, Alemania, Italia y Portugal.

This is a leaflet on safety at work made for sex workers by sex workers and organisations from five EU countries. The leaflet is available in Bulgarian, English, French, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. The leaflet targets sex workers working in hotels, apartments, brothels, clubs, bars, massage parlours, saunas, sex shops, and other indoor venues. The leaflet is the result of our local experiences. It presents advice and tips related to safety at work, and information on sex work legislation in Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal.

This is a leaflet on safety at work made for sex workers by sex workers and organisations from five EU countries. The leaflet is available in Bulgarian, English, French, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. The leaflet targets sex workers working in hotels, apartments, brothels, clubs, bars, massage parlours, saunas, sex shops, and other indoor venues. The leaflet is the result of our local experiences. It presents advice and tips related to safety at work, and information on sex work legislation in Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal.

This is a leaflet on safety at work made for sex workers by sex workers and organisations from five EU countries. The leaflet is available in Bulgarian, English, French, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. The leaflet targets sex workers working in hotels, apartments, brothels, clubs, bars, massage parlours, saunas, sex shops, and other indoor venues. The leaflet is the result of our local experiences. It presents advice and tips related to safety at work, and information on sex work legislation in Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal.