The Open Society Public Health Program invites concept forms from civil society organizations and networks that seek to advance the health and human rights of sex workers in Europe. Marginalized by stigma and criminalization, sex workers face enormous obstacles to realizing their human rights, and oppression has led to extreme levels of violence, disease, and exploitation. Justice and health systems routinely fail sex workers, and at times compound their marginalization through harmful law enforcement practices and insurmountable barriers to health care. Sex worker organizing is sometimes vilified, further exacerbating problems related to workplace health and safety. The myriad of health challenges sex workers face cannot be addressed squarely within the health system, and the structural—and often political—determinants of sex worker health extend far beyond health care.
E v G 9 Covered On Fox News
The legal challenge was brought by three ex-prostitutes, a would-be client, and ESPLER (Erotic Service Providers Legal, Educational and Research Project). They received good news Thursday after the 9th Circuit judges hinted that some scrutiny of the law was needed. “Why should it be illegal to sell something that it’s legal to give away?” asked, as the Chronicle reported. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White rejected the challenge last year, saying the 2003 Supreme Court ruling was concerning intimate personal relationship and did not apply to commercial sex, adding that California justified the law against prostitution as a deterrence to violence against women, sexually transmitted diseases and human trafficking, according to the Chronicle.
M Dante: I Support ESPLERP v Gascon
M. Dante explains why she supports ESPLERP v Gascon.
Spotlight Of Success: USPROS Rachel West
ESPU thanks you Rachel for all you do!
9/28 Listening Session at Crossroads Women’s Center
NO CRIMINALIZING SURVIVAL: Thanks @espunion for support of sex work inclusion in community discussions on women, poverty and incarceration! ⚜️ 9/28 Thur Eve 6:30 - 9:30 RSVP Required.
Urgent: New Hampshire to study decriminalizing sex work! Action Alert
Source: Urgent: New Hampshire to study decriminalizing sex work! Action Alert
Just Say No To Nordic
According to the PHILADELPHIA DA case records - as of 2014 - the Nordic Model is charging more sex workers than "johns"!
AK Ordinance 84
Stop Prosecuting Prostitutes For Reporting Violent Crimes
Some Real Sex & Labor Traffic Stats
Some Real Sex & Labor Traffic Stats
Savage Love Letter of the Day
Most potential clients I hear from—men and women—don't want to employ a sex worker who has been coerced into doing sex work either by another person or by their personal circumstances. But whatever brought someone to sex work, all sex workers should be treated with compassion—and contra this letter writer, not all sex workers will welcome suggestions on how they can improve their lives.
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!
Open Democracy: On Why Sex Workers Should Be Involved In Anti-Trafficking Efforts
Wendelijn Vollbehr is a sociology graduate of the VU University of Amsterdam. For her masterthesis she conducted qualitative research on sex worker-led organizations in collaboration with the Red Umbrella Fund. Her research interests are human rights, especially minority rights, marginalization and empowerment.
USPROS: On The “Prioritizing Safety for Sex Workers” Policy, California
Sex workers demand law enforcement focus their efforts on sex crimes and human trafficking. US PROS Collective | The US PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) is a multiracial network of women who work or have worked in different areas of the sex industry. Founded in 1982, US PROS campaigns for the decriminalization of prostitution and for justice, protection and resources so that no woman, young person or man is forced into prostitution through poverty or violence.
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