Consultation-on-HIV-Sex-work-and-2010.pdf
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SWEAT South Africa
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Dialogue around the South Africa-based 2010 Soccer World Cup, proposals to introduce a moratorium on the harassment of sex workers by the South African Police Force, and the continued criminalisation of sex workers and their clients in South Africa sparked the production of this work. It outlines several key issues, considerations, challenges and recommendations for policy-makers, NGOs, sex workers and other actors in the fields of HIV and human rights, to help build a supportive and enabling environment for sex workers to realise their rights. (Quoted from World Aids Campaign website).
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]]>In 2008 the US Government gave Malaysia the lowest rating in its annual Trafficking In Persons Report. Rather than address the real labour trafficking issues, the government set out to close down the sex industry. Now nearly all brothels in Kuala Lumpur have been shut. Sex workers are forced to work in dangerous and difficult conditions on streets throughout the capital. For its violent efforts to suppress the sex industry the US Government raised Malaysia to tier 2 level in its 2009 TIP report.
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Author:
Flora Cornish, Riddhi Ghosh Banerji and Anuprita Shukla
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]]>Meena reflects on the approach that her organisation SANGRAM has used to support the work of VAMP the collective of women in sex work.
She introduces SANGRAM’s Bill of Rights which sets out guidelines for programming interventions around HIV and AIDS:
Theme: Health and HIV Theme: Human Rights and Law Author: Meena Seshu Relevant URL: Link to the film on the International Women's Health Coalition website ]]>For me AIDS 2010 was the culmination of months of work as a Community Programming Committee (CPC) member and co-chair of the Global Village. It was also the first time in several years that I have seen all the global and regional sex workers rights activists. In that time the Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and other networks have formalised and gathered funding and rights awareness has spread to more countries. So it was wonderful to see old friends and to meet the wonderful new activists from countries as diverse as Guyana, Kenya, USA, South Africa, UK, China and Uganda.
It was great to catch up with people who have gone from being peer educators to managing programmes and public advocacy, to see the materials sex workers are producing and to see the NSWP itself thriving under the leadership of my old friend Ruth Morgan Thomas (three months older than me). I am sure that for many people the Red Umbrellas would be the most potent symbol of the struggle for human rights they remember from the conference.
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From 18-23 July 2010, the 18th International AIDS Conference took place in Vienna, Austria - with a strong presence and visibility of sex workers. Through a number of booths, a big networking zone, presentations, film screenings and performances, on panels, in plenary and at protests - and with the ever present red umbrella - sex workers and their allies demanded that funders, policy makers, researchers, and other organisations recognise and support the human rights of sex workers.Congratulations to all those who helped to make AIDS2010 a powerful political moment in the history of sex worker rights!
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