We are in touch with sex workers and/or women
who work with sex workers in many countries: Hong Kong, Japan,
Sierra Leone, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda . . .
Although each situation is different, we all face poverty, lack of
economic alternatives, criminalization and abuse of power by the
authorities.
Public Meeting: Mon 19 December 2011 -
Decriminal
Evidence from different countries
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO:
In Trinidad we work with the National Union of Domestic Employees (NUDE) which has defended sex workers' rights against arrest and deportation.
NUDE, Trinidad and Tobago press
release in support of sex workers
Prostitutes face sexual harassment,
Trinidad &Tobago Mirror, June 2001
'They are workers, too' Trinidad &Tobago Mirror, June 2001
Ziteng One-person-one-letter campaign against police extensive raids on one-apartment women
SOUTH AFRICA:
Sex work should be decriminalised and regulated -- Institute for Security Studies report
INDIA:
India sex workers demand rights
UNITED NATIONS: Lobbying at UN conferences and NGO forums:
For an end to the discrimination of prostitute women everywhere. Our workshops at the Beijing forum in 1995 were attended by sex workers from many countries, South and North. They made clear how much we have in common -- all supported decriminalization and viable economic alternatives to prostitution.
Report to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women January 2007