Infographic: Sex Worker Community-led Responses to COVID-19
This infographic summarises the Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to Community-led Responses to COVID-19.
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Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to Community-led Responses to COVID-19
Sex workers were among the hardest hit at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to be impacted by this global public health crisis. The challenges that sex workers faced before COVID-19, as a result of criminalisation, stigma and discrimination, were all exacerbated by the pandemic.
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Animation: NSWP Consensus Statement on Sex Work, Human Rights, and the Law
The Consensus Statement details eight fundamental rights that sex worker-led groups from around the world identify as crucial targets for their activism and advocacy. Following a global consultation with members, the NSWP Consensus Statement reaffirms NSWP ’s global advocacy platform for sex work, human rights and the law.
The Consensus Statement animation is a new tool for sex workers' advocacy worldwide. It was designed and created by Smo Sienkiewicz.
Infographic: NSWP Consensus Statement on Sex Work, Human Rights, and the Law
The Consensus Statement details eight fundamental rights that sex worker-led groups from around the world identify as crucial targets for their activism and advocacy. Following a global consultation with members, the NSWP Consensus Statement reaffirms NSWP ’s global advocacy platform for sex work, human rights and the law.
The Consensus Statement infographic is a new tool for sex workers' advocacy worldwide. It was designed and created by Smo Sienkiewicz.
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Speaking Out: Personal Testimonies of Rights Violations Experienced by Sex Workers in Kenya
The National Empowerment Network for Persons Living with HIV and AIDS in Kenya (NEPHAK), the Kenya Sex Workers Alliance (KESWA), the Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) and the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) have published their report Speaking Out: Personal Testimonies of Rights Violations Experienced by Sex Workers in Kenya. This report focuses on human rights violations among female sex workers living with HIV. It is based on a literature review and interviews conducted in May 2014 among 30 sex workers living with HIV in six counties: Nairobi, Mombasa, Kiambu, Machakos, Kisumu, and Busia.
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Backpage Responds to Credit Card Crackdown by Offering Free Ads
Image: Screenshot of Backpage.com homepage.
The online classified web site Backpage.com, long used by sex workers as a low-cost means of advertising their services and screening clients, has announced that it is allowing users to post ads for free to the adult services section of its site.
Backpage has been sending e-mails to users of the adult services section of the site informing them that they could use free promo code "FREESPEECH" until their payment situation was resolved to post ads.
Visa and MasterCard Cut Sex Workers Off from Advertising Site
On Tuesday the 30th of June, MasterCard announced that its credit cards can no longer be used to pay for ads on the Backpage.com website, following a request from Chicago’s Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart, who claimed the site is used by sex traffickers. The following day Visa announced that it, too, would no longer allow its credit cards to be used to make transactions through the website.
Nepalese Army imposes curfew in outdoor post-Earthquake camps to ‘stop prostitution’
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.
Maggie de Vries | The Red Umbrella -- Sex Work, Stigma & the Law
Maggie de Vries on this TED Talk exposes her own life story in order to expose the stigma and discrimination around sex work.
Maggie remarks on how she had to come to terms with the life that her sister Sarah lived.
The Sex Workers’ Opera Returns for International Women’s Day
Following January’s sold-out run of shows at the Arcola Theatre, London, the Sex Workers’ Opera is returning for a one-off performance to mark International Women’s Day 2015.