More than 60 representatives from migrants’ and prostitutes’ counseling organizations, sex workers and other experts from around Europe participated in a red umbrella event in from of Austrian Parliament. Among them for representatives of SWAN. More

Warsaw, December 17, 2007 – 78 students of the Pomerania Medical University in Szczecin took part in a competition which had its finale today. Some played roles of sex work advocates using content related arguments; some were sex workers; others were sex workers’ enemies using arguments based on emotions and morality. This psychodrama was the end of a project run by Justyna Sobeyko who teaches at the Pomerania University and is also an activist with TADA, SWAN member from Poland. More

Warsaw, December 1, 2007 -- People Living with HIV/AIDS in family and society was the title of the International AIDS conference organized in Warsaw today. The President of TADA, SWAN member from Poland, presented the Declaration of Rights of Sex Workers at this conference sponsored by the Polish Government and UNAIDS. More

December 21, 2007 – Several SWAN members organized this week parties as part of the Rights, not Violence campaign to stop violence against sex workers. More

Justyna Sobeyko works as a lawyer for TADA, SWAN member from Poland. Maria is a sex worker in Poland. Both recently participated in the SWAN meeting in Kiev where Anna-Louise Crago interviewed them about sex work in Poland and the possible effects of a proposed anti-client law in that country (“The Swedish Model”). More

In a cornerstone development in Poland, several men were in July this year charged for wheedling money out of sex workers in one of Czestochowa’s night clubs and on one of the highways leading to the city – reports TADA, SWAN member from Poland. More

In recognition of the anniversary of the adoption of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948, Warsaw's Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights hosts WATCH DOCS - Human Rights in Film. Submissions deadline is August 31, 2007. More

Open Society Institute, Budapest and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw issue this call for proposals for the graduates of HFHR human rights skills training courses. More

Application deadline July 22! Human rights Summer School in Russian language, in Warswa, Poland. More