document types: Reports

The Right(s) Evidence: Sex Work, Violence, and HIV in Asia

The Right(s) Evidence: Sex Work, Violence, and HIV in Asia
123 peer-to-peer in-depth qualitative interviews with female, male and transgender sex workers and key informants was carried out in Indonesia (Jakarta), Myanmar (Yangon), Nepal (Kathmandu) and Sri Lanka (Colombo). “The research provides sound evidence that the violence that sex workers experience denies them their fundamental human rights and contributes to the spread of HIV,” said Meena Saraswathi Seshu, from Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation, one of the co-authors of the report.
Year of publication: 
2015
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Global Action with Local Impact: Why Advocacy Matters

Global Action with Local Impact: Why Advocacy Matters
The report details strategies used and outcomes achieved by five  constituency-led global network organizations focused on key populations, providing numerous case study examples illustrating the concrete impact of advocacy at the global level.

The report focuses on global-level work conducted as part of the Bridging the Gaps program, an international multi-agency effort devoted to achieving universal access to HIV services and ensuring full human rights for key populations. Supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the program is a collaboration between five Dutch-based organizations, five global key population networks, and 80 grassroots organizations across 16 countries.

Year of publication: 
2015
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Trans Sex Work: Briefing Paper 09

Trans Sex Work: Briefing Paper 09
The Trans Sex Work briefing paper focuses on the issues and needs identified by trans sex workers (TSW) as disclosed in NSWP forums including an online questionnaire and face-to-face focus groups. The issue of intersectionality is brought into focus with the aim of giving context to the community of TSW before looking at the needs and rights of trans sex workers. Legal situations are then discussed, noting how legislative systems can have an impact on the lives and work of TSW worldwide. Discussion then moves to look at the issues and needs of TSW, beginning with a discussion on violence before looking at how discrimination impacts access to education and employment, housing, justice, and appropriate health care services. The paper concludes by drawing attention to the need to support the advocacy and activism of TSW groups around the world in challenging the needs identified and offering recommendations for those who design and implement policy and programmes, and those who represent and work directly with TSW. The paper also includes examples of NSWP member groups’ efforts to mobilise communities of TSW to advocate for trans sex worker rights, showing activism that is being carried out by the community.
Year of publication: 
2015
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Male Sex Work: Briefing Paper 08

Male Sex Work: Briefing Paper 08
The Male Sex Work briefing paper focuses on the main issues faced by male sex workers (MSW) globally and highlights some of the advocacy and activism efforts by male sex worker communities that have challenged these issues. The paper is intended for those who make policy, design and implement programmes, and work directly with MSW in the hope of increasing awareness and understanding of the multiple realities and needs of this community. This paper is also intended as an advocacy tool for NSWP member groups to utilise in their attempts to raise awareness across the world of the needs of MSW and advocate for their rights from the grassroots community level to global forums for change.
Year of publication: 
2015
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How AIDS Changed Everything: MDG 6 Report

How AIDS Changed Everything: MDG 6 Report
A comprehensive report on the AIDS response over the last 15 years. It includes lessons learned, challenges and gaps that remain, and actions for the future. The majority of information on gay men and other men who have sex with men and transgender people can be found in the “Key Populations” chapter, beginning on page 342.
Year of publication: 
2015
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Respect, Protect, Fulfill: Best Practices Guidance in Conducting HIV Research with Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Rights-constrained Environments

Respect, Protect, Fulfill: Best Practices Guidance in Conducting HIV Research with Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Rights-constrained Environments
This guidance* has been developed for both researchers and community-based organizations in rights-constrained environments. The guidance is intended to help both researchers and community organizations to:

Better design and conduct meaningful research on HIV among MSM in challenging social, political, and human rights contexts;
Provide a check list of factors for researchers and community organizations to consider in the design, conduct, and implementation of research studies;
Offer lessons learned through case studies of research and community partnerships, recent successes, and challenges.

The guidance is also available in French, Russian, and Spanish.

*A 2015 update of this publication is available. 

Year of publication: 
2011
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Respecter, proteger, honorer

MSM Orientation de la recherche
Cette orientation a été élaboré pour les chercheurs et les organisations communautaires dans les milieux de l’homme sont limitées. Le guide vise à aider les chercheurs et les organismes communautaires à :

une meilleure conception et de mener des recherches sur le VIH significative chez les HSH dans des contextes difficiles des droits sociaux, politiques et humaines;
Fournir une liste de contrôle des facteurs pour les chercheurs et les organismes communautaires à prendre en compte dans la conception, la conduite et la mise en œuvre des études de recherche;
Offrir des leçons apprises à travers des études de partenariats de recherche et communautaires, les récents succès et les défis cas. 

Year of publication: 
2011
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