Louis Sirkin, Preeminent First Amendment Lawyer, Will Argue Ninth Circuit Appeal Supporting Sexual Privacy, Against Criminalization Of Sex Work Sex Worker Activist’s Groundbreaking Court Case Scheduled For Oral Arguments In Ninth Circuit Of Appeal on October 19th
Reducing Criminalization to Improve Community Safety & Health Act Of 2017
In Washington DC HIPS hosted a historic event at our Center for Health and Achievement. Sex workers, allies, community members and more came together to celebrate the introduction of "The Reducing Criminalization to Improve Community Safety and Health Act of 2017". This is bill looks at the underlying systemic issues facing the residents of the District and offers a new approach to improve the health and safety of our residents,” says Cyndee Clay, Executive Director of HIPS, “Street-based sex workers who are engaged in survival sex work often bear the brunt of criminalization. Arresting those who are most at-risk causes irreparable harm, rendering people jobless, homeless, or subject to deportation. Our response to poverty and lack of traditional employment must be based in supportive services and housing, not incarceration.”
HIV Criminalization Beyond Non-Disclosure: Advocacy Toolkits on Intersections with Sex Work and Syringe Use
HIV Criminalization Beyond Non-Disclosure: Advocacy Toolkits on Intersections with Sex Work and Syringe Use
On Women Poverty & Incarceration
Thursday 9/28 7-9 A community town hall with Larry Krasner at the new Crossroads Center in Germantown. RSVP All are welcome RSVP
SAFE STATION: New Hampshire Harm Reduction
Eris Vayle and M. Dante joined Representative Elizabeth Edwards with public television hostess Elizabeth Kopp and Granite Pathways Ryan Fowler for a live stream discussion on Public Safety & Harm Reduction after the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee had a subcommittee meet to work on HB 287, a bill retained by the Legislature for further work, with the fascinating title of “Establishing a Committee to Study Decriminalizing Sex Work.”
NH Action Alert issued by US PROStitutes Collective
Global Women’s Strike testified in support of a bill to decriminalize prostitution in New Hampshire. A Sub Committee of the NH Legislature agreed to study the issue and are meeting on September 5. Please see Action Alert from the US PROStitutes Collective and write or call sub-committee members in support of decriminalization!
Consensus Statement on HIV “Treatment as Prevention” in Criminal Law Reform
The Consensus Statement on "HIV Treatment As Prevention" In Criminal Law Reform
NH ACTION ALERT: Study Of Sex Work Decriminalization Models
YOU CAN HELP STOP THE VIOLENCE BY SUPPORTING SEX WORKER FRIENDLY SERVICES. First meeting of Subcommittee is September 5: We are in touch with Elizabeth Edwards, one of the sponsors of HB 287. The first meeting of this Subcommittee is September 5. The committee hearing is open to anyone to attend. Campaigners for decriminalization including Bella Robinson of COYOTE/Rhode Island will be attending. Melanie Dante, a Pennsylvania advocate for sex workers and survivors, and Eris Vayle, both known well for the Philadelphia December 17th effort to de-escalate gender based violence, will also attend. CRIMINALIZATION & STIGMA CONTRIBUTE TO FACTORS KILLING SEX WORKERS
BY POPULAR DEMAND: Crossroads Fundraiser Rummage Sale
Saturday August 5, 10am-5pm Rummage Sale to benefit the new Crossroads Women's Center 5011 Wayne Ave., Phila 19144 (between Manheim and Seymour in Germantown) philly@allwomencount.net
Art For Social Justice: Street Workers On View
The Sanctuary dome will be part of a temporary installation about Philadelphia Sex Workers, and the violence they face. Assembled at The Philadelphia Museum of Art beginning Sept. 9. More information at: https://www.thefix.com/sex-workers-and-drug-users-speak-out-philadelphia
ESPU-PHILLY Endorses the Consensus Statement on HIV “Treatment as Prevention” in Criminal Law Reform
ESPU-PHILLY Endorses the Consensus Statement on HIV "Treatment as Prevention" in Criminal Law Reform. This is because the two biggest problems with almost all HIV criminal laws and prosecutions are that 1) they focus on HIV disclosure rather than on whether the PLHIV had an intent to do harm; and 2) HIV laws’ felony punishment and severe sentences treat any risk of HIV infection as the equivalent of murder or manslaughter. An April 2017 Pub Med article confirms: - diagnosis rates and laws criminalizing HIV exposure in the United States found no association between HIV or AIDS diagnosis rates and criminal exposure laws across states over time, suggesting that these laws have had no detectable HIV prevention effect.
Community Collaborative Survey
Data collected from this research will be used to help draft policy recommendation promoting the health and safety of US sex workers by sex worker rights-led organizations. It will also help identify what barriers sex workers face in accessing services, protecting their sexual health and reporting violence.
Dr. Anita Ravi for the Inquirer: What politicians don’t say about Medicaid and human trafficking victims
I am a family medicine physician who has worked in Philadelphia and New York City for three years, and I know how the BCRA will affect trafficked people: It will unequivocally harm them. I know this because I run the Institute for Family Health’s PurpLE Clinic (Purpose: Listen and Engage) in New York City, which provides health care for human trafficking survivors. Senators who tout the horrors of human trafficking must choose between supporting survivors or supporting the BCRA.
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