Research for Sex Work, Issue 14: Sex Work is Work

This issue ncludes: Editorial, Sex Worker Politics and the Term ‘Sex Work’, Beyond Sex Work as Work, The German Prostitution Law: An Example of the ‘Legalisation of Sex Work’ Support for Sex Workers as Occupational Support? , Criminal, Victim, or Worker, United States Organising, Sex Workers Talk About Occupational Health in New York City. The Influence of Time to Negotiate on Control in Sex Worker-Client Interactions, and Report on Experience: Decriminalised Sex Work and Occupational Health and Safety in New Zealand.

Year of publication:

2015

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The Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to SWIT

The Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to SWIT provides a short summary of the key points in ‘Implementing Comprehensive HIV/STI Programmes with Sex Workers: Practical Approaches from Collaborative Interventions’ or the ‘SWIT’, in plain English. The guide can be used by sex workers and sex worker organisations that are designing or running programmes for sex workers. It may also be useful as an advocacy tool when advocating for rights-based services.

Year of publication:

2015

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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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The Real Impact of the Swedish Model: Advocacy Toolkit

NSWP hopes that this advocacy toolkit will highlight the harms associated with this approach of criminalisation, both in relation to the simplistic and crude understandings of sex work and of sex workers that are used to justify the law, and in relation to the direct outcomes of the resulting legal framework of criminalising the purchase of sex. In contrast to claims that the Swedish model is a necessary and effective approach in protecting women from violence and exploitation, sex workers in Sweden note worrying consequences of the law in terms of their safety and wellbeing.

The advocacy toolkit will be an evolving set of documents. They will serve to continue to raise awareness of the outcomes of the law through the ongoing publishing of evidence-based fact sheets and advocacy tools, tools that will provide resources to sex workers, allies and researchers around the world to challenge widespread promotion of this detrimental legal and political approach to the regulation of sex work.

Year of publication:

2015

Сложные решения: инструмент принятия этических решений для работников, обеспечивающих уход и поддержку

Международный рабочая группа заполнено глобального программирования разрыв с выпуском испытана и утверждена этического инструмент принятия решений для использования в организациях ВИЧ на уровне общин. Инструмент , называемый “Трудные решения,” является результатом тщательного процесса три года, а предназначен для сотрудников или коллег работника поддержки использования, когда сталкиваются с этической дилеммой. Но он был разработан в консультации с ведущими специалистами по этике – от населения однозначно, пострадавших от ВИЧ: людям, употребляющим наркотики, секс-работников, трансгендеров и геев или других мужчин, имеющих секс с мужчинами. И, что примечательно, она включает в себя ссылку на дилемм, касающихся их детей.

В докладе также доступна на французском, английском и испанском языках.

Year of publication:

2015

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Décisions difficiles: Un outil pour la prise de décisions éthiques à l’intention des personnes aidantes

Un groupe de travail international a comblé une lacune de programmation globale avec la sortie d’un outil de prise de décision éthique testé et validé pour utilisation dans les organisations communautaires liés au VIH. L’outil, appelé ‘décisions difficiles,’ est le résultat d’ un processus rigoureux de trois ans, et est conçu pour un travailleur de soutien employé ou pairs à utiliser lorsqu’ils sont confrontés à un dilemme éthique. Mais il a été conçu en consultation avec les principaux spécialistes de l’éthique par – populations touchées par le VIH unique: les gens qui utilisent des drogues, les travailleurs du sexe, les personnes transsexuelles et les hommes homosexuels ou les hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec des hommes. Et, notamment, il comporte des références à des dilemmes concernant leurs enfants.

Le rapport est également disponible en anglais, russe, et espagnol.

Year of publication:

2015

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Decisiones Difíciles: Una Herramienta para Proveedores de Apoyo para la Salud o Servicios Sociales

Difficult Decisions: A Tool for Care Workers (Spanish)

Un grupo de trabajo internacional ha llenado un vacío de programación mundial con el lanzamiento de una herramienta de toma de decisiones ética probado y validado para su uso en las organizaciones basadas en la comunidad del VIH. La herramienta, llamada ‘ decisiones difíciles’, es el resultado de un riguroso proceso de tres años , y está diseñado para un empleado o compañero trabajador de apoyo para utilizar cuando se enfrentan a un dilema ético. Pero que fue diseñado, en consulta con los principales especialistas en ética por las poblaciones afectadas de forma única por el VIH : las personas que usan drogas , trabajadores sexuales, personas transgénero y hombres gay y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres. Y, sobre todo, se incluye una referencia a los dilemas que afectan a sus hijos.

El kit de herramientas también está disponible en francés, ruso, y inglés.

Year of publication:

2015

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Difficult Decisions: A Tool for Care Workers

Difficulot Decisions: A Tool for Care Workers

An international working group has filled a global programming gap with the release of a tested and validated ethical decision-making tool for use in community-based HIV organizations. The tool, called ‘Difficult Decisions’, is the result of a rigorous three-year process, and is designed for an employee or peer support worker to use when faced with an ethical dilemma. But it was designed—in consultation with leading ethicists—by populations uniquely affected by HIV: people who use drugs, sex workers, transgender people and gay men or other men who have sex with men. And, notably, it includes reference to dilemmas involving their children.

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

Year of publication:

2015

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