A guide for programs with sex workers
By International HIV/AIDS Alliance, www.aidsalliance.org
This guide gives a detailed understanding of violence in relation to sex work and challenges some common assumptions. The guide provides example programs to illustrate ways in which HIV and AIDS projects can help reduce the incidence of violence against sex workers and provide support to those who experience violence. More

By Empower Foundation, www.empowerfoundation.org/
While most of us never challenge or even consider the role of linguistics in our daily lives, Empower, a group offering support for sex workers, has created the Bad Girls Dictionary, in which typical meanings of words are reworked in a new light. Written in the first person, the text works to present old ideas in a new prejudice-free light. More

In part 2 of our special focus on Ukraine, we present an interview with Ira Mishina, Iriska and Natasha about sex workers’ rights in this country, and about the All-Ukrainian Network of Sex Workers. More

In part 1 of 2 of our special focus on Ukrainian sex workers, we present the following interview with Elena a sex worker, social worker, and newspaper editor from Kiev. More

APROASE Mexico and the Network of Sex Work Projects, with support from OSI, is encouraging and coordinating the participation of male, transgender and female sex workers, sex work projects, advocates and networks in the International AIDS Conference which will take place in Mexico City from 3-8 August 2008. More

SWAN Press Release on December 17. Read (PDF)

Rights Groups: Universal Declaration on Human Rights Applies to Sex Workers Sex workers’ rights are human rights, say human rights groups in 15 countries

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In March 2007 UNAIDS published its terminology guidelines. As we know very well, language does matter and in most cases it is not only a question of syntaxes. More

International Harm Reduction Program (IHRD) of the Open Society Institute recently released the report "Women, Harm Reduction, and HIV", which discusses the difficulties women drug users face in accessing harm reduction, drug treatment, and sexual and reproductive health services. More