Advocacy Tactics

ICRSE and SWAN members are talking about implementing SWIT in their countries. Watch the video in English here. In Russian here.

This Rose Alliance report provides, for the very first time, an extensive and detailed documentation of the myriad of ways in which sex workers are discriminated against in Sweden. It illustrates how laws and their implementation harm them, how poorly they are treated by authorities and how skewed media representations of them are. It also […]

Это новый доклад, посвященный влиянию законов, которые криминализируют секс-работу в Сербии, на защиту прав секс-работников, а также жертв торговли людьми. Читайте на английском и сербском языках.  

Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association published the Manual for the Ministry of Health in Turkey on Provision and Management of Health Services for Sex Workers in Turkey. The Manual has been developed with the support of the UNFPA Country Office and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Manual analysis […]

Here you can find a series of five publications about sex workers’ rights violations in Turkey. The publications are mostly about transgender sex workers.

SWAN wrote a submission to UN Women regarding their consultation on “sex work, sex trade and prostitution”. read it in english here, in russian here.

New UNAIDS strategy calls for decriminalisation of sex work, same sex acts, HIV transmission, and drug use. Echoing evidence from various research, and practices globally, UNAIDS has specifically called for the decriminalisation of sex work – especially in Africa where 70% of sex work is criminalised, in one form or the other – saying “Decriminalisation […]

This document provides ten reasons why decriminalizing sex work is the best policy for promoting health and human rights of sex workers, their families, and communities. Removing criminal prosecution of sex work goes hand-in-hand with recognizing sex work as work and protecting the rights of sex workers through workplace health and safety standards. Decriminalizing sex […]

Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective. A collaborative effort by 70 artist-activists-strategists and 10+ leading creative campaign organizations including the YesMen/YesLab, Ruckus Society, Other 98% and others, the project is already a success. Find out more […]

You can use Maps for Advocacy as a guide to using maps in your advocacy work. The mapping process for advocacy is explained vividly through case studies, descriptions of procedures and methods, a review of data sources as well as a glossary of mapping terminology. Hosting a map on your website is demystified as the […]