Sex Workers' Rights Movement

The Sex Workers' Rights Movement is a movement in many countries worldwide which works to improve working conditions, increase benefits and eliminate discrimination on behalf of individuals working within the sex industry, whether legal or criminalized.[1]

Australia

The national organisation in Australia is named Scarlet Alliance.[2]

England

The English Collective of Prostitutes was founded in 1975.[3]

France

In Lyon 1975 100 sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier church to protest against working conditions.[4] Today there is the Syndicat du travail sexuel (STRASS).[5]

Germany

One of the first projects in Germany was Hydra formed in Berlin 1979.[6] The Bundesverband erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen (BESD) was founded in 2013.[7]

Ireland

The Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI)[8] was established in 2009.

United States

Carol Leigh coined the expression sex workers in 1978.[9] COYOTE is an American advocacy group for prostitutes.[10] BAYSWAN is a non-profit organization for sex workers in the San Francisco Bay Area.[11]

Latin America

Sex workers in Latin America and the Caribbean have a long history of organising. In 1888, a group of Havana sex workers founded a newspaper, La Cebolla,[12] and called for the establishment of a political party led by sex workers. Today there are sex worker rights organisations in almost all Latin American and Caribbean countries and two regional networks - Red de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (Network of Women Sex Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean—RedTraSex) and Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen el Trabajo Sexual (Latin American Platform of People Who Exercise Sex Work—PLAPERTS).[13]

See also

References
  1. Bindel, Julie (2019). "The 'Sex Workers' Rights' Movement". The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth. Springer. pp. 35–61. ISBN 978-1-349-95947-1.
  2. Kate DeMaere (16 October 2008). "Sex @ work: the ordinary, extraordinary lives of sex workers" (PDF). The HIV Consortium for Social and Policy Research on HIV, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases. p. 3. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  3. "Profile of our first spokeswoman, Selma James". English Collective of Prostitutes. 8 June 2012.
  4. "Internationaler Hurentag – Kirche soll Prostituierte nicht ausgrenzen (International Whores' Day: The church shouldn't exclude the prostitutes)". Die Welt (in German). Die Welt - Online. 2009-06-07. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
  5. "Les prostitués fondent leur syndicat et défilent pour la "Pute pride"". L'Obs (in French). 22 March 2009.
  6. "Die meisten sind eben keine Opfer". Jungle-world.com. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  7. Waldenberger, Almuth (2016). Die Hurenbewegung (in German). LIT Verlag Münster. p. 134. ISBN 978-3-643-50597-2.
  8. "Sex Workers Alliance Ireland". Sexworkersallianceireland.org. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  9. "Inaugural Hong Kong sex workers' film festival offers nuanced, diverse portrait of trade". Malaysia Star. AP. August 14, 2006. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
  10. Jenness, Valerie (August 1990). "From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work: COYOTE and the Reorganization of Prostitution as a Social Problem". Social Problems. 37 (3): 403–420. doi:10.2307/800751. JSTOR 800751.
  11. Mickle, Bryn. (2003-07-13). "Sex marks the spot — Lax enforcement draws hookers, johns to Flint." Flint Journal. Retrieved through Newsbank.com (subscription required) on 2007-06-04. Carol Leigh, identified as a spokeswoman for BAYSWAN, was a media source sought for comment in a newspaper story about prostitution in Flint, Michigan. BAYSWAN was described as "A San Francisco sex worker advocacy group argues that prostitution should be decriminalized and regulated like other industries."
  12. Fraunhar, Alison (2018). Mulata Nation: Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-4968-1446-3.
  13. Cabezas, Amalia L. (2019-04-29). "Latin American and Caribbean Sex Workers: Gains and challenges in the movement". Anti-Trafficking Review (12): 37–56. doi:10.14197/atr.201219123. ISSN 2287-0113.
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