The new Cambodian Anti-trafficking act. This act makes prostitution illegal in Cambodia and also makes it illegal to try to stop (illegal) rescues of sex workers by NGO’s.
It is currently being used to close down the entire brothel sector in Cambodia and large numbers of street sex workers are also being forcibly rescued or jailed
The Global Working Group on HIV and Sex Work Policy was convened by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects to formulate sex workers and civil society groups response to the new UNAIDS Guidance note on Sex Work. The group is a broad based coalition that believes in evidence informed, rights based programming in relation to HIV. This video shows the launch of our reworked Guidance Note and explains the principles we used in formulating it. We hope that this reworking is the start of a dialogue between sex worker organisations, HIV organisations, programme implemeters, governments UNAIDS, UNFPA and the other cosponsors. The document can be downloaded from sexworkpolicy.wordpress.com
In July APNSW hosted a regional Dialogue of Networks working in the areas of HIV/AIDS, sex work, sexual and reproductive rights, women’s rights and migrant rights organisations. It was an exciting event- being held at our newly renovated offices in Bangkok
It was the regional meeting for a project called : Building
Synergies in HIV/AIDS and sexual and Reproductive Health and
Rights” You can read more about it here
www.asiapacificdialogue.wordpress.com
This is a document produced by APNSW and endorsed by all the regional sex worker networks. It outlines sex workers opposition to the new UNAIDS guidance on sex work.
We took this to the UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board meeting in Geneva in June and got a motion passed that effectively makes the guidance a draft again and requires UNAIDS to again work with sex workers.
click link below for full document in PDF
Geneva June 2007
In our work networking sex worker groups and projects from across Asia and the Pacific we work with sex workers who speak many languages and bring with them very diverse experiences of sex work, culture, HIV and Human Rights issues.
We are united in our demand for sex work to be recognised as work and for female, male and transgender sex workers to be treated as human beings and have our human rights respected.
In working across languages cultures we use art based methods and actions so we are working with a common goal- not divided by language or country. You can read about our cross cultural methods on www.apnsw.org in the section called Making Sex Work Safe.
To date we have around 400 dolls made by sex workers from 18 countries that carry messages of sex workers hopes, aspirations and demands for rights and respect. The dolls pictures here are just a sample of those made at the recent APNSW sex work and human rights summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in March 2007.
Click on pic for larger image!!
1. Views and opinions of the 100% comdom use program
2. Information on the USAID PEPFAR anti-prostitution pledge and funding restrictions
3. Stop Gate Foundations Support of Raids on Sex Workers
4. Outrage at Chinese prostitutes’ shame parade
5. GCM meeting report : Changing Landscape of Prevention
6. Sex worker bank plans expansion
7. Bangladesh gets U.N. award for AIDS prevention
8. Drug trial news from Aidsmap
9. ICRSE Network Postcard Campaign
10. Story inside Srikandi Sejati Editorial
11. “Free Trade” and Higher prices for ARV’s
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