The Sex Workers' Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN) is a network of civil society organizations and sex worker led groups and organizations engaged in advocating for human rights of the sex workers in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. SWAN started in 2006 as a project within Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU/TASZ) and in 2012 became an independent organization with its headquarters in Budapest, Hungary. 

Mission, vision and values
Uniting sex worker advocates to create societies in Central-Eastern Europe and Central Asia where
- sex work is depenalized and decriminalized,
- sex workers can live and work free from violence, stigma and discrimination,
- sex workers are empowered and actively engaged in issues that directly affect their lives and health.

Values:

• We recognize the right of sex workers to take agency in their lives, health and decision-making
• We commit to actively involve sex workers in all levels of SWAN governance and to the protection of human rights operations
• We recognize sex work as work, which is an unforced sale of sexual services between consenting adult women, men and transgender individuals.

Goal:
To strengthen advocacy by civil society including groups of sex workers, for a safer legal environment that ensures human rights of sex workers in Central-Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

More about SWAN:

• SWAN Strategy 2014-2017 PDF
• SWAN Rules of Organization and Operation 2016 PDF
• SWAN Membership Application and Consent Form PDF
• SWAN Annual report 2013, 2015
• SWAN Auditor's Report 2012, 2013 (original hu PDF, translation to eng PDF), 2014, 2015, 2016.
• SWAN Financial Report 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.

Staff

Executive Director
Stasa Plecas

Marija Tosheva

Editor and Media and Communications Officer
Ekaterina

Mentorship Program Coordinator 
Katerina Partinova

Program Officer 
Roxana Vasi

Sex Worker Report Editor and human rights consultant
Anna-Louise Crago

Operations Manager
Lilla Kantor

Translator
Olga Zubkovskaya

Publisher 
SWAN Foundation for the Human Rights of Sex Workers (SWAN Foundation)

Members

	Aksion Plus
	Association PROI/ Udruženje PROI
	Health and Social Development Foundation
	"Women's Voice" Women for Freedom
	Red Umbrella Athens
	Association of Hungarian Sex Workers
	AMELIYA
	Tais Plus
	I Can Live Coalition
	Association for support of marginalized workers STAR-STAR Healthy Options Project Skopje
	YCC Juventas
	Support and Development of Human Rights Foundation
	ARAS – Romanian Association Against AIDS Carusel Association
	"Novaya zhizn (New life)" "Shagi" (Steps) Foundation Development of Civil Society Silver Rose
	Association Prevent JAZAS- Association Against AIDS Sloboda Prava/Equal Rights
	C.A. Odyseus
	Civil organization APEIRON ETIBOR/ DIGNITY NGO "BUZURG"
	Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association
	All-Ukrainian Charitable Organization «LEGALIFE-UKRAINE» Charitable Organization All-Ukrainian League "LEGALIFE" HPLGBT Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association

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