Women’s Rights Campaigning

Women’s Rights Campaigning: Info-Activism Toolkit is a new guide for women’s rights activists, advocates, NGOs and community based organisations who want to use technology tools and practices in their campaigning. You can get yourself familarized with it here: https://womensrights.informationactivism.org/

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Visualizing for Advocacy

VISUALISING INFORMATION FOR ADVOCACY by TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE Visualising Information for Advocacy is a book about creative advocacy, namely, how advocates and activists use visual elements in their campaigns. In this 170-page book we explore how to influence issues using the right combination of information, design, technologies and networks. Through over 60 examples of visual […]

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ICRSE briefing paper on LGBT sex workers

Underserved. Overpoliced. Invisibilised. LGBT sex workers do matter. The struggle for sex workers’ rights intersects with many other social movements. Contrary to the monolithic abolitionist discourse, which portrays all sex workers as “prostituted women” without agency, our communities are diverse and resilient. Sex workers are male, female and non-binary, LGBTQ, migrants and workers. Supporting sex […]

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A Guide for Sex Workers Human Rights Defenders

This publication is aimed at sex workers of all genders and backgrounds, sex worker projects, human rights organizations and advocates. It contains practical information on how to start human rights documenting projects, to organize human rights campaigns and to use formal human rights mechanisms. In this booklet you can find among others: – different models […]

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The new advocacy guide from SWAN

‘REPORTING FROM THE SHADOWS: Using CEDAW to Advocate for Sex Workers’ Rights in Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia’ here in english

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Open letters to Amnesty International supporting their proposal to decriminalize consenting adult sex work

Here you can find the links to different open letters, supporting AI’s draft policy proposal suggesting the decriminalization of consenting adult sex work. SWAN in english , in russian NSWP in english , in russian ICRSE in english African Sex Workers in english Thai Sex Workers in english UNAIDS in english Scholars in english OSF […]

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An Interactive Game about Police Confiscation of Condoms

What does it really mean for sex workers when police take and destroy their condoms or threaten them with arrest for condom possession? Cops & Rubbers is an interactive board game for health and human rights advocates, health practitioners, academics, and policymakers that demonstrates the real consequences of these policing tactics for sex workers—including increased […]

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Sex Workers Speak out Against Confiscation of Condoms

A short and gripping film produced by the Open Society Foundations uses first hand sex worker testimony to document the harm done to sex workers when police confiscate and destroy their condoms. Sex workers describe being extorted, abused and arrested for possession of condoms. The film illustrates the difficult choice sex workers must face, between […]

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How Criminalizing Condoms Harms Sex Workers

The Open Society Foundations has published a multi-country report uncovering the ways in which police destruction and confiscation of sex workers’ condoms puts sex workers at risk. The report, researched by sex worker advocacy groups in Kenya, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe, found that police often treat condoms as contraband and […]

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