Regional updates: Asia and the Pacific

Our members are listed on the left or you can click the red umbrellas on the map.

Regional Board Members

Sherry Sherqueshaa (Project X), Singapore

Yukiko Kaname (SWASH), Japan

Regional Network

The Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW) is a sex worker-led network whose members include national sex worker-led networks, sex worker-led organisations and community-based sex work projects representing female, male and transgender sex workers. APNSW was founded in 1994 at the International AIDS Conference in Japan and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

News articles from Asia and the Pacific region are listed below.

Regional updates

7th августа 2015 | Region: Global, Asia and the Pacific

Empower Foundation, the Thai sex worker organisation has written a letter of support to Amnesty International.

30th июля 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific

In an effort to network, build solidarity, increase understanding and contribute towards greater tolerance between the Singaporean sex worker and Muslim communities, Project X, Singapore’s sex worker advocacy network, invited a prominent Muslim speaker, Mr. Mohamed Imran, to a weekly sex worker discussion group, Kopi Session.

22nd июля 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific

Australian sex workers in the state of Victoria have formalised the program for the 2015 Festival of Sex Work.

20th июля 2015 | Region: Global, Asia and the Pacific

Image: Scarlet Alliance representatives at the launch of the report. Image provided by Scarlet Alliance.

20th июля 2015 | Region: Global, Asia and the Pacific

Image: Scarlet Alliance representatives at the launch of the report. Image provided by Scarlet Alliance.

15th июня 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific

Main image: Representatives from Nepal’s national sex worker, drug user and GLBTIQ networks upon completing the 2nd national ITPC training. Image attributed to NUNN Nepal.

4th июня 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific

On 28 May, 2015, the Nepalese Army imposed a strict 8pm curfew on entering and exiting the central Kathmandu, Tundikhel field where over a 1000 people are currently residing in tents following the 25 April 8.1 magnitude earthquake, which killed over 8000 people and left hundreds of thousands of people displaced.

27th мая 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific

On 25 April, 2015, Nepal was subject to an earthquake reported to be 8.1 magnitude.

26th мая 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific
Debby Doesn’t Do it For Free, an Australian- based sex worker art collective which over its 13 year existence has involved over 40 peer participants is due to launch a national exhibition of sex worker created art pieces and performances at
27th марта 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific, Europe

On May 1st, Thai sex worker Thanta Laovilawanyakul enters the Danish stage in Copenhagen to add a new perspective to the question; why do Westerns travel around the globe to get something as banal as sex.

One by one, people from the audience will be lead onto the stage to play different experiences with sex worker Thanta Laovilawanyakul at Betty Nansens Theatre in Copenhagen in May.

The controversial play ‘Love-Theatre’ has been developed by two Danish instructors: Tue Biering and Jeppe Kristensen.

27th марта 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific, Europe

On May 1st, Thai sex worker Thanta Laovilawanyakul enters the Danish stage in Copenhagen to add a new perspective to the question; why do Westerns travel around the globe to get something as banal as sex.

One by one, people from the audience will be lead onto the stage to play different experiences with sex worker Thanta Laovilawanyakul at Betty Nansens Theatre in Copenhagen in May.

The controversial play ‘Love-Theatre’ has been developed by two Danish instructors: Tue Biering and Jeppe Kristensen.

26th марта 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific
Women’s Network for Unity (WNU), registered with the Cambodian Ministry of Interior in 2004, is a non-religious and spearhead grassroots non-government organisation working to promote conceptual understanding of human rights.
3rd марта 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific

March 3, YANGON: Sex workers experience extreme violence at work, in health care and custodial settings, in their neighbourhoods and homes, according to a study conducted in four Asian countries.

2nd марта 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific

Migrant sex workers from Nepal are currently facing increased scrutiny from Indian immigration authorities and police as they travel through Indian airports to work in the United Arab Emirates.

2nd марта 2015 | Region: Asia and the Pacific

Sex workers mark International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, 17 December, 2014, Suva, Fiji. Image attributed to Sesenieli Naitala.