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This year's conference took place in le Sénat in Paris and it included a full day of panel discussions on topics of sex work and the Internet, the criminalisation of clients and the debate around re-establishing a brothel system in France. Participants i...
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"little could have prepared us for that day when ‘J’ arrived at one of our Our Space events. Without much of a hello, she pulled out her photo identification card, which read ‘SEX OFFENDER’ in block orange letters. She is only...
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After a series of regional awards events Rentboy.com, the "World's Largest Gay Escort and Massage Site", will host the Mr. International Escort of the Year at the Hookie Awards in on 19 March, 2010 in New York, USA. You can read more ...
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Wednesday on the 17th of February, STRASS met Chantal Brunel (1), MP for UMP in Seine-et-Marne to talk about her commitment through her amendment for the repeal of soliciting's criminalisation in the bill designed to combat violence against women which wi...
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The Sex-Workers Forum of Vienna has made a shadow report submission to the UNITED NATIONS’ COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE (UN'CAT) pertaining to Austria’s 5th periodic report CAT/C/AUS/4-5
at the 44th session to be held from 26 April to 14 May, 20...
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Start planning your trip to Paris!
Reservation Assises 2010
SEXWORK : NEW CHALLENGES
Sexwork Conference in France, March 24th at the Senate
NOTE: The room can only accommodate 117 persons; it means that the number of invitations will be limited....
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Excerpted from The Sex Workers in Europe Manifesto
Defamation of sex workers incites discrimination and hatred. We demand that sex workers be protected by anti-discrimination legislation.
Media and education
Our voices and experiences are often man...
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Kumjing of Empower Thailand is on her way to New York on her first unaccompanied journey!
"On March 8,2004 EMPOWER Foundation launch the project 'Labour Sans Frontieres', over one hundred of paper mache dolls, representing immigrant labours, were ...
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"20 years of sex worker, LGBT and other activist and arts interviews, performances and other video recordings..."
Created with the goal of preserving sex worker culture and discourse, the CSC Sex Worker Media Libra...
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For the second year, NYC-based organization Sex Work Awareness is hosting a media training workshop for current and former sex workers. Last year the training was one day - this year we're expanding to a whole weekend. Speak Up is taught by Audacia Ray a...
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Have you ever wanted to hand someone a list of answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about sex workers and sex work? Maria Nengeh Mensah at Stella Montreal has produced a booklet (pdf and web versions) that might be just what you are lookin...
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In honour of Lek from Empower Thailand who died January 2010 after a short battle with cancer. This video stars Lek and was posted by Empower "to honor her memory as a passionate sex worker activist, a creative artist, a funny woman and a won...
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On 25th-29th April 2010, the 21st International Harm Reduction Conference is taking place where it was first established in Liverpool, England.
Here is an update about sex worker and allies involvement, so far, in the conference. A major session on se...
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Leela Neena has been actively campaigning for the recognition of the rights of sex workers for a while now. In the words of Leela Neena "I'm going to post lots of things to help expose the anti-trafficking movement for the fraud they really are.......
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Bonjour tout le monde,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la creation de la premiere liste email internationale entre travailleurs du sexe activistes et leurs allies francophones.
Sur le modele des listes internationales anglophones, cette liste per...
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Launched in December of 2009 10 TACTICS provides original and artful ways for rights advocates to capture attention and communicate a cause. It includes a 50-minute film documenting inspiring info-activism stories from around the world and a set of cards;...
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SWAN Newsletter, Issue 26, 2009 (To download SWAN News PRINTABLE VERSION please click here.)
In Focus
World AIDS Day, Human Rights Day, Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
December is the busiest month in forging a global understanding ...
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Under the title "J’ai honte de mes parents" (I am ashamed of my parents) on French television station france2 programme Toute Une Histoir - spoke on 11 December with a panel of guests about their relationship to their parents - who may be ...
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Catch the promotion trailer here on the Micropunta website. Speaking in the video are Catherine Healy from the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective, Nicky Adams from the English Collective of Prostitutes. More video footage is also available from the http:/...
