Publicaciones y Herramientas

En preparación para nuestro segundo plan estratégico, hemos reflexionado sobre todo lo que hemos conseguido hasta ahora: ¿Qué hemos logrado, qué hemos aprendido y cómo podemos utilizar estas lecciones para hacer planes para el futuro? Para comprender el alcance de nuestro trabajo, recopilamos comentarios de lxs beneficiarixs, otrxs activistxs, financiadorxs, miembrxs del Comité Directivo Internacional (ISC) y del Comité Asesor de Programas (PAC), y el personal del Fondo.

This joint briefing paper by NSWP and INPUD highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs, as a community that spans two key populations. This document provides an overview of some of the most endemic and substantive ways in which sex workers who use drugs face double criminalisation and associated police harassment, intersectional stigma, compounded marginalisation and social exclusion, heightened interference and harassment from healthcare and other service providers, infantilisation, pathologisation, and an associated undermining of agency, choice, and self-determination. A Community Guide is also available.

This joint briefing paper by NSWP and INPUD highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs, as a community that spans two key populations. This document provides an overview of some of the most endemic and substantive ways in which sex workers who use drugs face double criminalisation and associated police harassment, intersectional stigma, compounded marginalisation and social exclusion, heightened interference and harassment from healthcare and other service providers, infantilisation, pathologisation, and an associated undermining of agency, choice, and self-determination. A Community Guide is also available.

Globally sex workers experience a number of barriers to comprehensive
sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, ranging from explicit
exclusion from international financing to discrimination within SRH
services leading to lower access rates.

This paper discusses the obstacles sex workers face when accessing
SRH services, and examines the quality of services available to them. It
also provides practical examples and recommendations for improving the
accessibility and acceptability of SRH services for sex workers.

A Community Guide is also available.

This Briefing Paper documents the stigma and discrimination experienced by LGBT sex workers and highlights differences in their experiences when compared with other members of their respective communities. It also includes recommendations for addressing the double stigma and discrimination experienced by those at the intersection of the sex work and LGBT communities.

This case study focuses on sex workers’ meaningful involvement in the development of rights-based sex worker program in national Funding Requests to the Global Fund in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Global Philanthropy Project (GPP), Red Umbrella Fund, Funders for LGBTQ Issues and SWDC collaborated to develop Diving Deeper: Factsheet on LGBTI Sex Worker Funding.

El informe detallado del Red Umbrella Fund sobre la creación de Red Umbrella Fund. Combina información de entrevistas con algunas personas clave que participaron en la creación del Fondo.

Esta Guía Útil identifica algunas de las tendencias actuales en el uso de las TIC, explora las buenas y malas prácticas, y examina los riesgos y desafíos en términos de seguridad, privacidad y bienestar para las personas que ejercen el trabajo sexual. También resalta la necesidad de desarrollar proyectos de TIC que cumplan con los más altos estándares de seguridad, que pertenezcan a la comunidad y estén liderados por la comunidad, que protejan la salud y los demás derechos humanos de las personas que ejercen el trabajo sexual, y que no se sustituyan a servicios presenciales esenciales para las personas que ejercen el trabajo sexual ni perjudiquen el empoderamiento comunitario a nivel local. La Guía Útil se basa en la experticia de personas que ejercen el trabajo sexual e informadores clave, y concluye con recomendaciones para los distintos actores implicados.

The European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance is proud to launch its latest Impact Report which highlights our key successes between 2010-2020. This report aims to educate members, partners, funders and other stakeholders on the impact of ESWA work over the last 10 years in areas such as advocacy, policy, capacity building and sub granting to its members. In these turbulent political times, fighting for sex workers’ rights and promoting a human rights and public health-based approach to sex work can be very challenging. We hope this Impact Report highlights some of the important changes ESWA and its members have achieved in our region.

In 2013, The WHO together with UNFPA, UNAIDS, UNDP the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and the World Bank published ‘Implementing Comprehensive HIV/STI Programmes with Sex Workers: Practical Approaches from Collaborative Interventions’ (or the SWIT as the document has become known). The SWIT reaffirms that the health of sex workers doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and that countries should work towards the decriminalisation of sex work, and the empowerment and self-determination of sex working communities, as a fundamental part of the fight against HIV.

«The lives of LGBTQ sex workers in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia are impacted by many hardships, including precarious living conditions, various forms and levels of criminalisation and discrimination as well as violence and human rights violations. […] This briefing paper developed by SWAN aims to fill the gap in knowledge about LGBTQ sex workers in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.» Available in English and Russian.

The investigation was presented on December 9, 2020, to commemorate the International Day of Human Rights Defenders and International Human Rights Day. It is a complete mapping of sex work legislation and sex workers’ political participation in the region.

2022 report «Myth-Busting the Swedish Model: The Evidence Debunking 10 Key Claims of Client Criminalisation» which find that «the benefits of the Swedish model by its proponents are not supported by the evidence. Sex workers are not decriminalised – a finding corroborated by an Amnesty International report on the situation in Ireland – and there have been rises in cases of human trafficking, with victims of this trade made even more vulnerable within a system of criminalisation.» This finding is supported Swedish sex worker-led organisation Fuckf?rbundet (member of ESWA and NSWP) in their 2019 report Twenty Years of Failing Sex Workers.

The paper covers various areas of law and law enforcement practices that disproportionately impact sex workers, including immigration laws, policing of public spaces, anti-LGBTQ laws, HIV criminalisation and religious codes. A Community Guide is also available.