The Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to SWIT

The Smart Sex Worker’s Guide to SWIT provides a short summary of the key points in ‘Implementing Comprehensive HIV/STI Programmes with Sex Workers: Practical Approaches from Collaborative Interventions’ or the ‘SWIT’, in plain English. The guide can be used by sex workers and sex worker organisations that are designing or running programmes for sex workers. It may also be useful as an advocacy tool when advocating for rights-based services.

Year of publication:

2015

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Economic Empowerment Programmes for Sex Workers: Africa Regional Report

This regional report evaluates both successful and failed economic empowerment programmes by sex worker-led organisations and non-sex worker-led organisations. The aim of the report was to document the lessons learnt and good practice examples to help build and strengthen the capacity of sex worker organisations working to promote the human rights of sex workers and to document sex worker-led responses in Africa. The report documents 7 case studies of economic empowerment programmes in 6 African countries: Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Nigeria; and Uganda.

Each of the case studies includes a discussion on the factors that contributed to a programme’s success or failure.

Year of publication:

2015

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The Right(s) Evidence: Sex Work, Violence, and HIV in Asia

123 peer-to-peer in-depth qualitative interviews with female, male and transgender sex workers and key informants was carried out in Indonesia (Jakarta), Myanmar (Yangon), Nepal (Kathmandu) and Sri Lanka (Colombo). “The research provides sound evidence that the violence that sex workers experience denies them their fundamental human rights and contributes to the spread of HIV,” said Meena Saraswathi Seshu, from Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation, one of the co-authors of the report.

Year of publication:

2015

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The Real Impact of the Swedish Model: Advocacy Toolkit

NSWP hopes that this advocacy toolkit will highlight the harms associated with this approach of criminalisation, both in relation to the simplistic and crude understandings of sex work and of sex workers that are used to justify the law, and in relation to the direct outcomes of the resulting legal framework of criminalising the purchase of sex. In contrast to claims that the Swedish model is a necessary and effective approach in protecting women from violence and exploitation, sex workers in Sweden note worrying consequences of the law in terms of their safety and wellbeing.

The advocacy toolkit will be an evolving set of documents. They will serve to continue to raise awareness of the outcomes of the law through the ongoing publishing of evidence-based fact sheets and advocacy tools, tools that will provide resources to sex workers, allies and researchers around the world to challenge widespread promotion of this detrimental legal and political approach to the regulation of sex work.

Year of publication:

2015

Global Action with Local Impact: Why Advocacy Matters

The report details strategies used and outcomes achieved by five constituency-led global network organizations focused on key populations, providing numerous case study examples illustrating the concrete impact of advocacy at the global level.

The report focuses on global-level work conducted as part of the Bridging the Gaps program, an international multi-agency effort devoted to achieving universal access to HIV services and ensuring full human rights for key populations. Supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the program is a collaboration between five Dutch-based organizations, five global key population networks, and 80 grassroots organizations across 16 countries.

Year of publication:

2015

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Сложные решения: инструмент принятия этических решений для работников, обеспечивающих уход и поддержку

Международный рабочая группа заполнено глобального программирования разрыв с выпуском испытана и утверждена этического инструмент принятия решений для использования в организациях ВИЧ на уровне общин. Инструмент , называемый “Трудные решения,” является результатом тщательного процесса три года, а предназначен для сотрудников или коллег работника поддержки использования, когда сталкиваются с этической дилеммой. Но он был разработан в консультации с ведущими специалистами по этике – от населения однозначно, пострадавших от ВИЧ: людям, употребляющим наркотики, секс-работников, трансгендеров и геев или других мужчин, имеющих секс с мужчинами. И, что примечательно, она включает в себя ссылку на дилемм, касающихся их детей.

В докладе также доступна на французском, английском и испанском языках.

Year of publication:

2015

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Décisions difficiles: Un outil pour la prise de décisions éthiques à l’intention des personnes aidantes

Un groupe de travail international a comblé une lacune de programmation globale avec la sortie d’un outil de prise de décision éthique testé et validé pour utilisation dans les organisations communautaires liés au VIH. L’outil, appelé ‘décisions difficiles,’ est le résultat d’ un processus rigoureux de trois ans, et est conçu pour un travailleur de soutien employé ou pairs à utiliser lorsqu’ils sont confrontés à un dilemme éthique. Mais il a été conçu en consultation avec les principaux spécialistes de l’éthique par – populations touchées par le VIH unique: les gens qui utilisent des drogues, les travailleurs du sexe, les personnes transsexuelles et les hommes homosexuels ou les hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec des hommes. Et, notamment, il comporte des références à des dilemmes concernant leurs enfants.

Le rapport est également disponible en anglais, russe, et espagnol.

Year of publication:

2015

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Decisiones Difíciles: Una Herramienta para Proveedores de Apoyo para la Salud o Servicios Sociales

Difficult Decisions: A Tool for Care Workers (Spanish)

Un grupo de trabajo internacional ha llenado un vacío de programación mundial con el lanzamiento de una herramienta de toma de decisiones ética probado y validado para su uso en las organizaciones basadas en la comunidad del VIH. La herramienta, llamada ‘ decisiones difíciles’, es el resultado de un riguroso proceso de tres años , y está diseñado para un empleado o compañero trabajador de apoyo para utilizar cuando se enfrentan a un dilema ético. Pero que fue diseñado, en consulta con los principales especialistas en ética por las poblaciones afectadas de forma única por el VIH : las personas que usan drogas , trabajadores sexuales, personas transgénero y hombres gay y otros hombres que tienen sexo con hombres. Y, sobre todo, se incluye una referencia a los dilemas que afectan a sus hijos.

El kit de herramientas también está disponible en francés, ruso, y inglés.

Year of publication:

2015

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