REPORT: The European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration
By A. Sorfleet
(Taken from the SEX WORKERS’ RIGHTS: Report of the European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration, Brussels (2005)
Beginning in 2002 a small network of Dutch sex workers and activists gathered in Amsterdam to organise a conference that would give sex workers an opportunity to respond to the proliferation of repressive new legislation and policies being enacted throughout Europe. In 2003 the group, Sex-work Initiative Group Netherlands (SIGN), approached sex workers and allies across Europe and invited them to join an organising commit tee which would raise funds and host a European conference on sex workers' rights. (Allies are people and organisations who—although not sex workers—work in fields of importance to sex workers, such as labour, migration, human rights and health.)