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drug users, especially women who were selling sex for money to buy drugs. During this policymaking process, all groups of sex workers were completely ignored. At the same time, feminists were advocating for the criminalisation of sex workers’ clients,...
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The Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center is a GAATW member in the United States. In November 2022, Borislav Gerasimov from the GAATW Secretariat conducted this interview with Mariah Grant, Research and Advocacy Director, to learn more about...
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Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration: Irregular migration and regular pathways, including decent work, labour mobility, recognition of skills and qualifications and other relevant measures 12 and 13 October 2017, Vienna Position paper...
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Women, Thank you for the opportunity to submit a contribution to your ‘Consultation seeking views on UN Women approach to sex work, the sex trade and prostitution’. This submission is made by the International Secretariat of the Global Alliance Against...
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nurses, and some women joined that health initiative to go to massage parlours where immigrant and migrant women worked in sex work to determine if they had access to healthcare; I think it was specifically an HIV project. When they went into massage...
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Gómez Jara. In the late 1980s/early 1990s, we conducted research in La Merced, the largest area in Latin America where sex work is carried out. One of our questions was whether sex workers used protection when they had sex. Some women responded that...
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determination and challenged the stereotype of ‘the victim of trafficking’ prevailing in the Global North. Trafficking and sex work GAATW has always been an ally of the sex worker rights movement. As feminists and human rights activists, our founding...
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seen as carriers and spreaders of AIDS and policymakers echoed this attitude. We understood that women on the margins like sex workers and single women have to be informed and made aware about HIV. A collective of sex workers gathered in front of a...
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Gloss • May 30, 2024 This article was originally published on PassBlue. Major progress has been made in the debate on sex workers’ rights through a recent paper, “Eliminating discrimination against sex workers and securing their human rights,” published...
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we had been involved in activism since 1982. We advocate for the recognition of the human, social and labour rights of sex workers on a local, national, and international scale. Also, we advocate for the decriminalization of all forms of sex work as...
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Astrid Renland, PION, 4 May 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has hit people engaged with sex work in Norway extremely hard both due to the lack of income and other financial problems, as well as the shutting down of health and social services for people...
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Lee la entrevista en español aquí ESWA (European Sex Workers Rights Alliance) is a member organisation of GAATW in Europe. In July 2022, Emilia Cebrián from the GAATW secretariat conducted this interview with Sabrina Sánchez, Coordinator of ESWA, to...
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they should be understood separately – going abroad to work and trafficking are not the same. For example, if I’m a sex worker and I want to go abroad to continue working as a sex worker, people can’t say, “Oh she’s so vulnerable, she’s been...
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members and partners from Africa, Asia, and Latin America working with women who earn their living from domestic work, sex work, agriculture, weaving, entertainment work, garment sector work, home based work and any available daily wage work....
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entrevista en español aquí. Fundación Quimera is a non-profit organization working to promote human and labor rights of Sex Workers in southern Ecuador, focused in migrants and national women. Vivian Cartagena, from the GAATW International Secretariat...
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and we have a department for advocacy and education. We have six shelters for victims of trafficking. We also support sex workers and advocate for the decriminalisation of sex work. Because in counselling we recognise that sex workers and victims of...
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FALSE ALARMS, FALSE SOLUTIONShttps://gaatw.org/resources/blog/1314-false-alarms-false-solutions
they would set up a platform to report on the "risks of prostitution" in housing so that landlords can be warned, and sex workers can be evicted. In May, AirBnB, the online home rental platform, signed a convention with the French government to develop...
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Shramajivi Mahila Samity is a member of GAATW in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India. It focusses on social and economic empowerment of rural and marginalised women. In November 2022, GAATW spoke with Purabi Paul and Ruby Parveen from SMS to learn...
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in Women welcomes Amnesty International’s ‘Policy on State Obligations to Respect, Protect and Fulfil the Human Rights of Sex Workers’, developed after two years of in-depth research and consultations with sex workers and various other stakeholders....
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Accem is a member of GAATW in Madrid, España who joined GAATW last year. In 2025, Vivian Cartagena from the GAATW secretariat conducted this interview with Carmen Martinez, Human Trafficking Programme Officer in Accem, to learn more about the work of...
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