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The sex workers led organization Silver Rose from St Petersburg, Russia, has published a security guide for sex workers. The guide was developed by sex workers. It contains the recommendations on how to protect health, privacy and personal belongings, how to provide the first aid to a client in case of emergency, how to chose […]

The case studies in this report offer a look at real-life sex workerled programming that has reduced police abuse, health risks, and other adverse impacts of bad laws and law enforcement on sex workers. The six case studies presented in this publication—in Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, South Africa, and Zimbabwe—capture a variety of approaches supported by […]

The research was conducted by Public Assotiation “Ameliya” in 2015. This report talks about sex work, violence and HIV infection in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It presents the results of a research completed by the community of Taldykorgan city and Almaty regions. This report describes daily violence inflicted on sex workers by their clients or […]

In a joint letter (Metro_Police_submission) to the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Police Department, members of SWEAT and Sisonke voiced their concerns about police abuse of sex workers. The letter highlighted illegal and abusive acts by police against sex workers, including the practice of false arrest, illegal profiling, violence, bribery, fraud, and numerous other serious […]

The Women’s Legal Center (WLC) has filed an allegation letter with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women detailing police abuse of sex workers in South Africa. In response, UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo has formally requested that the government of South Africa grant permission for her to undertake a mission to investigate […]

Pivot Legal Society and Sex Workers United Against Violence are spreading the word that Vancouver police have agreed not to arrest or harass sex workers for doing sex work. The groups have put together Know Your Rights cards to distribute to police, sex workers, and others in the community to let them know that the […]

The Center for Victims of Torture has developed an extensive step-by-step guide to planning out and executing human rights advocacy. The workbook is applicable to rights defenders working on diverse issues and covers a range of topics, including tactics for preventing abuse, for resisting abuse, for persuading key audiences, and for making full use of […]

Drawing By Numbers, a website created by the Tactical Technology Collective, is a collection of software tools and advice that organizations can use to turn information about human rights abuses into charts, maps, pictures diagrams and other visual instruments that can be used in advocacy, strategic planning, public education or training. Having something visual to […]

The Open Society Foundations has created a brief overview of the European human rights system. The guide describes ways in which civil society groups can participate in European processes to hold states accountable for their compliance with human rights law and provides contact information and useful links to key European institutions. Introduction to the European […]

The Women’’s Legal Center in South Africa has created a training manual (Sex Work and the Law: Desmond Tutu Foundation Training Manual)on sex work and the law to help paralegals and advocacy organizations understand the institutional and legal barriers facing sex workers, as well as how to address them. This rich guide provides information about […]