Nadie piensa nunca en las putas, pero sí en sus hijas e hijos
Decidida y categóricamente, Aprosex se posiciona en contra de toda forma de violencia. Venga de donde venga. Hay múltiples formas de ejercer violencia, las putas lo sabemos de primera mano, porque las putas también somos negras, asiáticas, sudakas, migrantes, musulmanas, bollos, trans y conocemos bien todas las formas de violencia de las que puede y hace uso un estado y todas y cada una de sus instituciones, que lejos de velar por todos sus ciudadanos, lo hace únicamente con los que cree que sacará un rendimiento a la hora de ir a votar. Los réditos electorales cuentan más que los derechos de las personas.
Lamentamos las putas que un asunto total y absolutamente político, se tenga que resolver a porrazos, a pelotazos de goma, a empujones, a gritos y a insultos. Especialmente doloroso el ya famoso «hijodeputa» o «filldeputa» (en catalán) que tan en boca está de todo el mundo, sea el bando que sea. Todos se insultan mentando a nuestres hijes.
El pueblo ejerce sus derechos y grita hijodeputa y la policía en plenos grito de guerra, grita hijodeputa y aquí no pasa nada, porque no son hijos de nadie importante. Sólo de vuestras esposas, que para que no os sintierais atacados en vuestra masculinidad nunca os contaron de qué trabajaban. De vuestras hijas, que para que no os frustrarais en vuestra masculinidad nunca os contaron cómo se pagaron la carrera. De vuestras hermanas, que ayudaron a que vosotros sí fuerais a la universidad y tuvierais una carrera de la cual la familia pudiera sentirse orgullosa.
De vuestras madres, preocupadas por vuestro bienestar, una buena educación y un futuro seguro. Vosotres, sois las únicas personas que sois hijesdeputa y bien orgulloses debierais estar.
Sí, el Colectivo Puta se levanta y se persona en las manifestaciones a favor de los derechos de toda la ciudadanía, porque las putas estamos ahí, aún cuando no sepáis que lo somos. Las mestizas, las gordas, las anoréxicas, las neuro divergentes, las depresivas, las zorras, las santas, las respondonas, las peliteñidas, las bajitas, todas juntas hacemos un camino hacia la construcción de nuevos caminos, incluso cuando no se nos ha invitado a votar, incluso cuando, una vez más, se nos ha relegado de manera sorpresiva y cambiando discursos a las mismas de siempre. A las que nadie quiere mirar, a las que nadie desea ver.
Sea cual sea el resultado, nos vemos de poco a nada interpeladas en este conflicto al que no se nos ha invitado, del que no nos sentimos parte y que perjudica gravemente nuestro trabajo, nuestras relaciones con nuestros clientes y nuestro día a día creando aún más, si cabe, una línea incierta sobre nuestro futuro en la actual Monarquía o en la futura República.
Nos preguntamos si estaríamos en este punto de locura, si las políticas hubiesen sido mujeres y de verdad de izquierdas. Desgraciadamente, nos quedará la duda.
Orgullo Puta y LGBT
Este texto pretendía transmitir nuestras sensaciones y sentimientos después de la marcha del Orgullo que conmemoraba los 40 años de la primera manifestación por los derechos LGBT formando el bloque que denominamos «Lxs Inapropiadxs» que consistía en trabajadorxs sexuales, aliadas migrantes, sudakas, negras y gitanas y que fue fantástico para nosotras que esas aliadas marcharan junto con nosotras, esperando que para los próximos años nos vayamos sumando cada vez más ya que nuestras interseccionalidades, son eso, las más inapropiadas para este sistema.
En lugar de eso, será una réplica que además no quería hacer porque siempre ha sido un medio cuyos contenidos me han gustado en general, pero somos humanxs y metemos la pata, cosa que creo ha pasado aquí o es una manera de buscar más clicks con un tema que siempre tiene polémica y tiene dividido al feminismo, como buena puta que soy, no descarto nada.
El artículo en cuestión se llama Putofobia ¿sabes lo que es? se refiere a mi persona desde el principio y me presenta como mujer, bien por supuesto que eso no lo voy a rebatir porque así es como me identifico, aunque decir que soy una mujer trans, hubiera sido una información más completa.
En primer lugar no se acaba de entender la lógica de que “Las putas también somos LGTBIQ” ¿todas? Suponemos que habrá prostitutas lesbianas y trans, es más, desgraciadamente ésa ha sido durante muchísimos años una de las pocas formas de poder ganarse la vida de miles de mujeres transexuales en todo el mundo y no precisamente por vocación.
Evidentemente no todas somos LGBTIQ, y sí, hay prostitutas lesbianas y trans, como hay protitutos gays, gente no binaria y personas queer y es muchas veces por estas condiciones que las alternativas que te ofrece el sistema se reducen y si, durante muchísimos años y actualmente es una manera de que las trans nos ganemos la vida, te lo digo que justo antes de escribir este texto he tenido un servicio y ya tengo para pagar la luz, que me ha venido carísima, por cierto, hay mucha gente en otros trabajos que tampoco están ahí por vocación, sino para llevar comida a la mesa. Afortunadxs aquellos que estudiaron periodismo y al menos ahi medio escribes/transmites cosillas varias.
Las estadísticas muestran unas escalofriantes cifras de maltrato, muerte y prostitución forzada. Según informes de la Asociación Trans Cuirgénero Estatal, de las 1731 personas transexuales víctimas mortales de la transfobia entre 2008 y 2014, el 65 % con oficio conocido eran trabajadoras sexuales y 617 no llegaron a cumplir los 30 años.
Así es, vengo del segundo país del mundo donde más se asesinan a mujeres trans, que es México (que no es precisamente uno de «esos países musulmanes») pero la violencia es ejercida contra nosotras por salirnos del sistema binario de género, nos asesinan por el hecho de ser trans, no por ser prostitutas, evidentemente el estigma trans y el estigma puta le da via libre a cualquier energúmeno (en México y en otros países, los primeros son los policías) de atacarnos prácticamente de manera impune, como pasó con las compañeras Alessa y Paola en Ciudad de México en septiembre del año pasado o con Lorena en Canarias. Con la estadística del 65% sólo me reafirmas lo que he escrito líneas más arriba.
No es como para ponerse a aplaudir ni de repente caer en la demagogia de que todo lo que rodea la prostitución es guay.
En ningún momento mencioné que todo lo que rodea a la prostitución es guay y tampoco lo pienso. Llevo once años ejerciendo este oficio en pisos, particular, plazas en España y por Europa. Asisto a encuentros a nivel europeo con otras compañeras trabajadoras sexuales y estamos en contacto constante con las compañeras latinoamericanas y sabemos que hay millones de experiencias, negativas, positivas y a veces mezcladas. Esa afirmación simplemente es ofensiva.
Pero es que eso no es así y no es así porque en la inmensa mayoría de casos la prostitución es ejercida por las mujeres más pobres y sin derechos del planeta
¿Hola? aquí la que escribe es trans, migrante y bollera…muchos privis no es que vea demasiados por aquí. Aunque tal vez lo creas, aunque no sé por qué.
y no es sino una forma de violencia ejercida por el hombre contra la mujer ya que si “el consentimiento tiene que ser comprado ya no es consentimiento”.
Este es uno de los mantras que el movimiento neoabolicionista tiene y claro, conmueve al público en general porque todo el mundo esté en contra de la violencia contra las mujeres, eso si, a las empleadas les paga menos que a los empleados, por ejemplo…pero eso no es un tipo de violencia ¡qué va! Que por cierto, debido a esa violencia económica es que muchas hemos tomado la decisión, con toda la libertad de agencia que el feminismo siempre ha impulsado, por el famoso «mi cuerpo es mio» y si es mío para abortar, también es mío para usarlo para sobrevivir en el marco de este sistema heterocapitalista. En este marco el consentimiento en cualquier tipo de trabajo, es muy relativo, pero cuando se habla así es porque se hace desde el privilegio.
Les encanta fomentar la imagen de las pelis o series donde (según ustedes) el 99.99% están obligadas y esa imagen es siempre de estar encerradas en zulos encadenadas. Que existen, claro, como en otros trabajos donde se echa mano de las personas tratadas como la agricultura, servicio doméstico, pesca, etc. Y las trabajadoras sexuales somos las primeras que podemos detectar quién está en situación de trata y se la experiencia neozelandesa ha demostrado que somos las primeras aliadas de las autoridades si de verdad hubiera voluntad.
Puede ser que un trabajo no te guste, yo por ejemplo no podría meterme a las alcantarillas para hacer mantenimiento, pero menos mal que hay gente que sí y no por eso voy a descalificar a quien lo hace y a preguntarle ¿Te gusta tu trabajo? ¿Cómo te sientes con él? ¿Cómo es que siendo tan inteligente llegaste aquí?
La reivindicación era muy fácil: Somos un colectivo que no tenemos un solo derecho laboral y cargamos con muchísimo estigma y es por eso que nuestra intención en el orgullo era recordarle al colectivo que somos una parte bastante numerosa de él y porque los derechos del colectivo no se acaban con el matrimonio igualitario, sino que aún falta mucho por hacer como reconocer el trabajo que da de comer a mucha gente LGBTIQ todos los días.
Posición de Amnistía Internacional sobre el trabajo sexual
Gauri Van Gulick, de Amnistía Internacional, explica la posición de la organización sobre el trabajo sexual.
En todo el mundo, los trabajadores y trabajadoras sexuales están expuestos constantemente a sufrir abusos. Esto no es noticia. Tampoco lo es que sean un grupo sumamente marginado de personas, obligadas a menudo a vivir fuera de la ley.
Política para proteger los derechos humanos de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales
1. ¿Por qué necesita AI una política para proteger los derechos humanos de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales?
Los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales son uno de los grupos más marginados del mundo. En muchos países se ven amenazados por toda una serie de abusos, tales como la violación, las palizas, la trata de personas, la extorsión, el desalojo forzoso y la discriminación, que incluye la exclusión de los servicios de salud. Lo más habitual es que apenas gocen de protección jurídica, si es que gozan de ella en absoluto. De hecho, en muchos casos, estos abusos y violaciones de derechos humanos son perpetrados por la policía, por clientes y por terceras partes.
Por ejemplo, un estudio realizado en 2010 sobre los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales en la capital de Papúa Nueva Guinea, Port Moresby, concluyó que, a lo largo de un periodo de seis meses, el 50 por ciento de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales habían sido víctimas de violación (por parte de clientes o de policías).
2. ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre legalización y despenalización? ¿Por qué no pide Amnistía Internacional que se legalice el trabajo sexual?
La despenalización del trabajo sexual significa que los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales ya no infringen la ley por realizar trabajo sexual. No se ven obligados a vivir fuera de la ley, y hay un mayor espacio para proteger sus derechos humanos.
Si se legaliza el trabajo sexual, eso significa que el Estado formula leyes y políticas muy específicas que regulan formalmente dicho trabajo. Esto puede dar lugar a un sistema de dos niveles en el que muchos trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales –a menudo los más marginados, los que realizan su trabajo en la calle– actúen fuera de esa normativa y sigan sufriendo criminalización. La despenalización pone en las manos de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales un mayor control para actuar de manera independiente, autoorganizarse en cooperativas informales y controlar su propio entorno de trabajo de una manera que la legalización con frecuencia no permite.
Durante nuestra consulta con trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales, la mayoría de aquellos con los que hablamos apoyaban la despenalización, pero con frecuencia veían con inquietud las implicaciones de la legalización. Esto no se debía únicamente a su desconfianza en las autoridades encargadas de hacer cumplir la ley, sino también al temor a que, si se adopta el modelo erróneo de legalización, puede desempoderarlos o incluso llevarlos a sufrir criminalización y abusos.
Cuando los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales dejan de ser vistos y tratados como “delincuentes” o “cómplices”, corren menos riesgo de sufrir tácticas policiales agresivas, y pueden exigir protección y mejores relaciones con la policía y disfrutar de ellas. La despenalización devuelve sus derechos a los trabajadores y las trabajadoras, y los convierte en agentes libres.
No nos oponemos a la legalización en sí, pero querríamos asegurarnos de que las leyes que se aprueben promueven los derechos humanos de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales y cumplen el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos.
3. ¿Acaso la despenalización del trabajo sexual no alienta la trata de personas?
Es importante dejar muy claro que Amnistía Internacional condena enérgicamente todas las formas de trata de seres humanos, incluida la trata con fines de explotación sexual. La trata de seres humanos constituye un abominable abuso contra los derechos humanos y debe ser penalizada como cuestión de derecho internacional. Esto queda claro para todas nuestras deliberaciones sobre política.
La despenalización del trabajo sexual no significa eliminar las sanciones penales para la trata de personas. No hay indicios que sugieran que la despenalización da lugar a un aumento de la trata.
Creemos que las despenalización ayudaría a abordar la trata de personas. Cuando el trabajo sexual se despenaliza, los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales son más capaces de trabajar juntos y reclamar sus derechos, para lograr mejores estándares y condiciones de trabajo y una mayor supervisión del sexo comercial y de la posible trata de personas destinadas a este fin.
Cuando no están bajo la amenaza de la criminalización, los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales pueden también colaborar con las fuerzas encargadas de hacer cumplir la ley para identificar a los autores y las víctimas de trata.
Algunas organizaciones, como la Alianza Global contra la Trata de Mujeres, Anti-Slavery International y la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, están de acuerdo en que la despenalización puede desempeñar un papel positivo. La despenalización fomenta un mayor reconocimiento de los derechos de las personas que venden sexo y puede ayudar a poner fin a las violaciones de derechos humanos que sufren estas personas, incluida la trata.
4. ¿Cómo puede la despenalización del trabajo sexual proteger los derechos de las mujeres?
La política propuesta por Amnistía Internacional pretende proporcionar una mayor protección a los derechos humanos de las trabajadoras sexuales –que a menudo se encuentran entre las mujeres más marginadas de la sociedad– promoviendo una mayor protección y un mayor empoderamiento de dichas trabajadoras sexuales.
La desigualdad de género y la discriminación pueden influir enormemente en que una mujer se dedique al trabajo sexual. No somos ingenuos ni indiferentes respecto a este problema. Pero no creemos que el criminalizar a las mujeres por su falta de opciones o el utilizar leyes penales y prácticas policiales que hagan su vida menos segura sea la respuesta a este problema.
La criminalización de las trabajadoras sexuales hace que a éstas les resulte más difícil obtener un empleo de su elección. La política que proponemos expone una serie de acciones que los Estados deben tomar –además de la despenalización– para empoderar a las mujeres y a otros grupos marginados con el fin de garantizar que nadie tiene que realizar trabajo sexual para sobrevivir.
Los Estados deben proporcionar acceso oportuno y adecuado a medidas de apoyo, por ejemplo prestaciones sociales, educación y formación y/o un puesto de trabajo alternativo. Esto no significa que las personas que se dedican al trabajo sexual estén obligadas a participar en dichos programas.
5. ¿Qué pruebas tiene AI para respaldar su propuesta de política sobre trabajo sexual?
Hemos dedicado dos años a elaborar nuestra propuesta de política para proteger los derechos humanos de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales. Esta política se basa en una sólida investigación y consulta con una diversidad de organizaciones y personas.
Hemos examinado el amplio trabajo realizado por organizaciones como la Organización Mundial de la Salud, ONUSIDA, el relator especial de la ONU sobre el derecho a la salud y otros organismos de la ONU. También hemos examinado las posturas adoptadas por otras organizaciones como ONU Mujeres, Anti-Slavery International y la Alianza Global contra la Trata de Mujeres. Hemos realizado investigaciones detalladas, hemos entrevistado a más de 200 trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales, y también a ex trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales, la policía, gobiernos y otros organismos en Argentina, Hong Kong, Noruega y Papúa Nueva Guinea.
Nuestras oficinas nacionales en todo el mundo han contribuido también a la política mediante una consulta amplia y abierta con grupos de trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales, grupos que representan a supervivientes de prostitución, organizaciones abolicionistas, feministas y otros representantes de los derechos de las mujeres, activistas LGBTI, organismos contra la trata de personas, activistas que trabajan sobre el VIH/sida y muchos más.
6. Quienes venden sexo necesitan protección, pero ¿por qué proteger a los proxenetas?
Nuestra política no consiste en proteger a los proxenetas. Según el modelo que proponemos, los terceros que exploten a trabajadores o trabajadoras sexuales o abusen de ellos seguirán estando criminalizados.
Pero existen leyes excesivamente amplias, como las que prohíben “promover la prostitución” o “regentar burdeles”, que se utilizan a menudo contra trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales y criminalizan las acciones que emprenden para tratar de mantenerse a salvo. Por ejemplo, en muchos países, si dos trabajadores o trabajadoras sexuales trabajan juntos por motivos de seguridad se considera que forman un “burdel”. Nuestra política pide que las leyes se reorienten para abordar los actos de explotación, abuso y trata, en lugar de establecer delitos de carácter muy general que criminalizan a los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales y ponen en peligro su vida.
7. ¿Por qué no apoya Amnistía Internacional el modelo nórdico?
Aunque el modelo nórdico no criminaliza directamente a los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales, hay aspectos operativos –como la compra de sexo o el alquiler de locales en los que vender sexo– que siguen estando criminalizados. Esto pone en peligro la seguridad de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales y los hace vulnerables a abusos; pueden seguir siendo objeto de persecución por parte de la policía, cuyo objetivo a menudo es erradicar el trabajo sexual mediante el cumplimiento de la ley penal.
En realidad, las leyes contra la compra de sexo significan que los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales tienen que correr más riesgos para proteger a los compradores y evitar que sean detectados por la policía. Los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales con los que hemos hablado nos han contado de forma habitual que les piden que visiten a los clientes en sus casas para ayudarles a evitar a la policía, en lugar de ir a un lugar donde el trabajador o trabajadora sexual se sienta más seguro.
En el modelo nórdico, el trabajo sexual sigue estando sumamente estigmatizado, y contribuye a la discriminación y la marginación de quienes se dedican a él.
8. ¿Cree Amnistía Internacional que pagar por trabajo sexual es un derecho humano?
Nuestra política no trata sobre los derechos de quienes compran sexo: se centra exclusivamente en proteger a los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales que se enfrentan a una serie de violaciones de derechos humanos vinculadas a la criminalización.
Al adoptar esta política, Amnistía Internacional dice que creemos que deben protegerse los derechos de un grupo de personas que pueden ser sumamente vulnerables a los abusos contra los derechos humanos.
9. Como organización de derechos humanos, ¿significa esta votación que ustedes promueven el trabajo sexual?
No. No creemos que nadie deba realizar trabajo sexual contra su voluntad, y nadie debe verse nunca obligado o coaccionado para convertirse en trabajador o trabajadora sexual. Existen pruebas de que, a menudo, los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales se dedican a este trabajo como su único medio de supervivencia, y porque no tienen otra opción. Esto sólo perpetúa la marginación de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales, y es por eso por lo que queremos garantizar que contamos con una política que defienda sus derechos humanos.
10. Amnistía Internacional ha adoptado una decisión pero, ¿qué sucederá a continuación?
La votación ha dado a nuestra Junta Directiva Internacional luz verde para elaborar y acordar una política con la que proteger los derechos humanos de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales. Esta política se debatirá en su próxima reunión de octubre. La Junta se basará en las conclusiones de la consulta y en la investigación llevada a cabo hasta la fecha y tomará una decisión sobre la mejor política para reflejar el compromiso de Amnistía Internacional de proteger los derechos humanos de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras sexuales.
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Amnistía Internacional con las PUTAS
11 de agosto de 2015
Queridas Reinas Magas:
Queremos daros las gracias por este regalo que nos habéis hecho hoy. Ciertamente vais con mucho retraso, pero como somos un grupo de personas buenas, consideradas, empáticas y confiadas, siempre creímos que aquello que veníamos demandándoos desde que la noche de los tiempos quiso cernirse sobre nuestro bello y artesanal trabajo, nos sería concedido. Hemos esperado mucho. Os lo hemos pedido año tras año, y la magia no estuvo de nuestro lado, cada 6 de enero nos llevábamos un nuevo disgusto.
Pero si bien la magia nos rehuía, a las Reinas las sabíamos muy cerca de nuestras peticiones y muy cerca de nosotras. A ellas también se les resistía el hechizo, así que han redoblado sus esfuerzos, han consultado con otras magas e incluso con brujas buenas y hoy por fin, el trabajo se ha visto recompensado. A pesar de los maleficios de las malvadas brujas que tienen sus casas en la otra orilla. En ésa en la que sólo viven esas arpías que pueden incidir en las decisiones mágicas, gracias a su poder y su dinero.
Sin embargo, el duro trabajo, el esfuerzo de las brujas y hechiceras que velan por los derechos de TODAS y no sólo de las poseedoras de los viejos y viles garrotes, ha dado como fruto y resultado esta estupenda noticia que nos ha dejado a todas nosotras emocionadas y felices.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aprosex/469148596438963?fref=ts
Y es que, las derechos no deberían regularse en función de la moral, ni de la impresión que cada unx tenga de su cuerpo, ni de religiones, ni de derechas, izquierdas, centros y bucles. Los derechos son inherentes a los seres humanos. A todos y cada uno de ellos. De nosotros.
En APROSEX nos adherimos a esta carta, que era una petición mundial a entrar en razón y a hacer valer los derechos olvidados de todo un colectivo que jamás ha merecido esta injusticia y este oprobio, dignos de la Edad Media y a los que vamos sobreviviendo como activistas que somos, por la firme convicción de luchar por la justicia y la verdad que necesitamos que los gobiernos pongan en marcha de manera inmediata.
Agradecimientos al grupo ICRSE (Red Europea de Proyectos de Trabajadoras del Sexo) que ha puesto en marcha este ambicioso cometido que, finalmente, nos ha llevado a la victoria. ¡Gracias a las Reinas. Gracias a las Magas!
Gracias a todxs lxs asociadxs de APROSEX que no dudaron en avalar con sus nombres, nuestro legítimo derecho a no ser penalizadas, ni criminalizadas.
SOMOS PUTAS
SOMOS BRUJAS
SOMOS FEMINISTAS.
¡QUEREMOS NUESTROS DERECHOS!
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ICRSE, 1000 ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS ASK AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TO SUPPORT DECRIMINALISATION OF SEX WORK
The International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE), Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (SWAN), Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), La Strada International, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), and Transgender Europe are amongst the 200 organisations signatories of a letter to Amnesty International Board of Directors urging them to show courage and support the draft policy on decriminalisation of sex work.
More than 800 individuals including 100s of sex workers and researchers expert on sex work and human rights have also signed the letter.
Sex workers and allies (individuals and organisations) are invited to read and sign the letter available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish here.
Image above by @photogroffee. Visit https://researchprojectkorea.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/celebrating-hollywoods-gender-studies-scholars/ for links to articles on the issue and other images.
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Dear Mr. Shetty and the International Board:
We write to you in regard to Amnesty International’s “Draft Policy on Sex Work”, which will be submitted for consideration at AI’s International Council Meeting in Dublin, 7-11 August 2015.
The International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) is a sex worker-led network representing 70 organisations led by or working with sex workers in Europe and Central Asia, as well as 150 individuals including sex workers, academics, trade unionists, human rights advocates, women’s rights activists, and LGBT rights activists. ICRSE, its members, and the signatories below are expressing their full support for Amnesty International’s “Draft Policy on Sex Work”. We commend the evidence-based draft policy that has been developed with careful consideration of the diversity of sex workers’ voices and experiences.
We are aware that Amnesty International will be pressured to back down from this position, but we urge you to show courage and tenacity and to adopt this policy. Sex workers worldwide are organising and advocating, often in very precarious and dangerous contexts, for the decriminalisation of sex work. Having Amnesty International take this position would make a significant contribution to promoting sex workers’ human rights and protecting them from discrimination and violence. A non-position by Amnesty International would be seen as an approval of the status quo and—in some national contexts—an implicit support for the criminalisation of paid consensual sex (namely through the criminalisation of clients), causing very grave consequences for the human rights of sex workers.
We, sex workers and those that support our struggle for human rights, know that any form of criminalisation (including criminalisation of clients) directly affects our livelihoods and working conditions. We urge Amnesty International to listen to sex workers and to support decriminalisation of consensual adult sex work.
We read with attention the letter addressed to Amnesty International by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). In the briefing note we included below, we would like to respond to some of their key arguments and highlight some of the gaps in the information that they provided.
We are urging Amnesty International to take into consideration the below arguments of the European sex worker movement, stay true to its values and vote in favour of decriminalisation of sex work. As long as sex work is criminalised—directly or indirectly through laws and practices targeting sex workers, clients, or third parties—sex workers will be at risk of police violence, arrests, rape, blackmail and deportations, and will be unable to report abuse committed by clients, third parties and members of the public.
By voting for this policy, Amnesty International will not side with exploiters and clients. On the contrary, Amnesty International will side with the universality of human rights and with sex workers, supporting us in our struggle to access justice and hold accountable those that abuse and attack us.
We hope that Amnesty International will listen to its own research, conducted over two years, to the growing evidence for decriminalisation and to the voices of all the current and former sex workers who are the most affected by laws criminalising sex work.
BRIEFING NOTE
Content:
a. On the Swedish Model and its implementation
b. On legalisation and decriminalisation
c. On male and trans sex workers
d. On migrant sex workers
a. On the Swedish Model and its implementation
First of all, there is no evidence that the Swedish model reduces the numbers of sex workers or victims of trafficking. The Swedish National Board for Health and Welfare notes:
It is also difficult to discern any clear trend of development: has the extent of prostitution increased or decreased. We cannot give any unambiguous answer to that question. At most, we can discern that street prostitution is slowly returning, after swiftly disappearing in the wake of the law against purchasing sexual services. But as said, that refers to street prostitution, which is the most obvious manifestation. With regard to increases and decreases in other areas of prostitution—the “hidden prostitution”—we are even less able to make any statements.
In their annual report on trafficking, the Swedish police noted that “in 2009 … there were about 90 Thai massage parlours in Stockholm and vicinity, most of which were judged to be offering sexual services for sale. At the turn of 2011/2012, the number of Thai massage parlours in the Stockholm area was estimated to be about 250 and throughout the country about 450”. This is a threefold increase in three years.
There is, however strong evidence that this model is detrimental to sex workers, as it pushes them underground, prevents them from reporting violence, and deprives them of the ability to work together for safety. In particular, we urge you to understand the “The Danger of Seeing the Swedish Model in a Vacuum” and how sex workers are still marginalised and made vulnerable in Sweden itself by the Swedish Model.
Furthermore, we are concerned that the letter provided by CATW purposefully ignores the actual effects of the implementation of the Swedish Model in other countries.
A Norwegian governmental report stressed that “women in the street market report to have a weaker bargaining position and more safety concerns now than before the law (criminalising clients) was introduced. At the indoors market, prostitutes express concern for the ‘out-door’ calls”.
What Swedish Model advocates also conveniently and constantly forget to mention is that countries which have debated or considered the criminalisation of clients have not removed the criminalisation of sex workers themselves. Even worse, in such countries, the debate framed by politicians, some women’s rights and religious organisations, and the media about “abolishing prostitution” has led to a very significant increase in stigmatisation of sex workers and the associated development of policies and by-laws directly targeting sex workers.
For example, in Europe, Lithuania extended penalisation to clients, while retaining it for sex workers. In Northern Ireland, the criminalisation of clients was added to the other laws criminalising many aspects of sex work. In other parts of UK, each attempt to introduce the criminalisation of clients has been in addition to laws criminalising sex workers. In France, the three year legislative debate on the criminalisation of clients has actually delayed and possibly buried the removal of passive soliciting, a law which directly targets street based sex workers. Meanwhile, many French councils, emboldened by the debate on “abolishing prostitution”, have passed municipal by-laws banning sex workers from city centres and residential neighbourhoods, pushing them to the outskirts of the cities where they are more vulnerable to violence.
b. On legalisation and decriminalisation
We hope that directors of Amnesty International will have a clearer understanding than the authors and signatories of CATW’s letter regarding the differences between the legalisation and decriminalisation of sex work.
Sex workers globally—as well as the numerous institutions and international organisations including UNAIDS, WHO, and The Lancet, which have extensively researched the impact of criminalisation—advocate for the decriminalisation of sex work, referring to the system implemented in New Zealand in 2003.
We recognise the complex issues associated with legalisation. In Germany, sex work has been legal since 1927, not 2002 as stated in the CATW letter. What the new prostitution law of 2002 changed was to recognise contracts between clients and sex workers and introduce the right of sex workers to sue clients refusing to pay for their services. Thus, what is misleadingly called the “legalisation” of prostitution was actually the recognition of sex work as labour. Many issues in Germany are related to the non-implementation of the law in many federal states: in effect, many sex workers are criminalised in Germany through zoning laws. We reject the biased reporting made by CATW and object to the claims (unfounded and insulting to actual victims of torture) that “torture” is now available as a service in German licenced brothels.
Regarding estimates of the number of victims of trafficking, which is often wrongly conflated with the sex sector, the Federal Crime Office of Germanynoted: «The number of identified cases of human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Germany has been decreasing in the past years and in 2013 it has reached the lowest point since 2006». In the Netherlands, the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings concluded “that it is not (yet) possible to give an answer to the question of the extent to which legalisation of prostitution leads to more human trafficking.”
c. On male and trans sex workers
Moreover, the CATW letter ignores that sex work is a multi-gendered phenomenon and that both male and trans sex workers in many countries face some of the most serious violence and human rights violations. Although the majority of sex workers are women, to deliberately ignore the large number ofmen and trans people working in the sex industry shows an incomplete and dangerous understanding of sex work. Violence and murders of trans sex workers in particular, often by the hands of or with the complicity of the authorities and police, are revoltingly high and the voices of trans sex workers should not be sidelined and ignored.
Between 2008 and 2014, 1,612 reported killings of gender-variant/trans people in 62 countries have been documented, including 90 in thirteen European countries. Of those whose profession was known, 65 per cent were sex workers. In our region, Turkey has seen 35 trans women, the majority sex workers, murdered in the last five years. Notably, any form of criminalisation significantly increases sex workers’ vulnerability to violence on the part of the police and other perpetrators. Ignoring the voices of trans sex workers is a form of social marginalisation and violence.
d. On migrant sex workers
As a last point, we would like to focus on some of the issues faced by migrant sex workers.
In many European countries migrants may constitute up to 75 per cent of sex workers. They may lack documentation and may be subjected to violence and labour exploitation. What CATW ignores in their letter is—again—that the so-called Swedish Model or partial criminalisation puts migrant sex workers under a constant threat of police repression, arrest or/and deportation, denying their right to access to justice and redress. This is particularly relevant at a time when the world is facing the highest crisis in numbers of displaced persons since World War II. Around 60 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide, and those that reach Europe face limited access to decent work and often have little or no access to benefits. Some of those seeking refuge and migrating to Europe choose selling sexual services out of very limited options to earn their living. Any argument made towards the criminalisation of sex work that ignores the working and living conditions of migrant sex workers is not only dangerous but plays into the hands of the increasingly racist and anti-migrant agendas of some state and non-state actors.
The call for the criminalisation of sex workers’ clients in the name of preventing and ending trafficking in human beings has been rejected by many anti-trafficking organisations that have learned through decades of working with trafficked persons that the criminalisation of sex work does not solve any of the problems they experience, nor does it prevent or stop human trafficking.These approaches have not been shown to protect sex workers, halt human trafficking, or dismantle criminal networks. They have rather led to violence and rights violations against sex workers and others. The stakes are simply too high here not to speak out and call for a different approach. Amnesty International must remain strong and focused on the human rights principles at issue. The decriminalisation of sex work and practices around it reduces the opportunities for exploitative labour practices in the sex sector.
ORGANISATIONS
- ICRSE – International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe
- SWAN – Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) – International Secretariat, Bangkok, Thailand
- Global Fund for Women, USA
- La Strada International Secretariat, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Global
- The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), New York, USA
- International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), Global Office, Kenya
- Transgender Europe
- Genera, Associación en Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres, Barcelona, Spain
- Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Organisation Ankara, Turkey
- Pembe Hayat/Pink Life LGBTT Solidarity Association, Ankara, Turkey
- Pink Life – Red Umbrella Sex Workers Initiative, Ankara, Turkey
- LGBTT Solidarity Association, Ankara, Turkey
- PROUD, Dutch Union for Sexworkers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Carusel Association, Bucharest, Romania
- Sexworker.at, NGO for Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- voice4sexworkers, Germany
- Sex Worker Open University, UK
- English Collective of Prostitutes, UK
- SCOT-PEP (Scottish Prostitutes Education Project), UK
- AS – Center for the Empowerment Youth of People who are living with HIV and AIDS, Serbia
- Sex Work Polska, Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers in Poland
- Odyseus, Slovakia
- Sage Community Health Collective, Chicago, IL, USA
- St James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA, USA
- STAR-STAR, the first sex worker collective in the Balkans, Macedonia
- Project SAFE, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Sex Workers Outreach Project – Philadelphia, USA
- Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination – Guyana
- Rights4Change, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Sex Work Association of Jamaica- SWAJ, Jamaica
- Friends 4 Life- Jamaica
- FIRST Decriminalize Sex Work, Canada
- PIECE Edmonton, Sex Workers Advocacy Group, Canada
- Desiree Alliance USA
- Sex Workers Outreach Project – Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Sex Workers Outreach Project Sacramento, CA, USA
- Respect Inc, Queensland, Australia
- Justicia Digna, New Mexico, USA
- Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago IL, USA
- Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters (COSWAS), Taiwan
- Empower Foundation Thailand
- ASPASIE, Genève, Switzerland
- Association of Hungarian Sex Workers, Hungary
- BOULEVARDS, Geneva, Switzerland
- Ban Ying Coordination and Counselling Center against Trafficking in Persons e.V., Berlin, Germany
- Kisauni Peer Educators, box 91109 Mombasa, Kenya
- Scottish Secular Society, UK
- Seksualpolitisk Forum / Forum for sexual politics, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Ragazza e.V., organisation for drug using sex workers, Hamburg, Germany
- Lady Mermaid’s Bureau, Kampala, Uganda
- Ragazza-Kontakt, outreach team for indoors-based sex workers, Hamburg, Germany
- HOPS-Healthy Options Project Skopje, Macedonia
- Union “Positive in the Rainbow” – Warsaw, Poland
- Hydra e.V., Advice and Support Centre for Prostitutes, Berlin, Germany
- Sex Workers Outreach Project – Tampa Bay, USA
- Gadejuristen // The Danish Street Lawyers, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Out Now, Massachusetts, USA
- Madonna e.V.,Bochum, Germany
- Midnight Blue, Hong Kong
- LEFÖ, Beratung, Bildung und Begleitung für Migrantinnen, Vienna/Austria
- Morel LGBTI formation, Eskişehir,USA
- Pivot Legal Society, Vancouver, Canada
- Davida – Prostituição, Direitos Civis, Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Daspu, sex worker fashion label, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Beijo da rua, sex worker journal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Red Light Rio project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- International Women’s Health Coalition, USA
- Association Program STACJA, Warsaw, Poland
- BesD, Berufsverband für erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V., Germany
- Comitato per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute Onlus, Pordenone, Italy
- Humanitas Prostitution Welfare Work, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Hearts on a Wire, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- La coalition pour les droits des travailleuses et travailleurs du sexe (Montréal, QC), Canada
- Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland
- Etnoblog Associazione Interculturale – Trieste, Italy
- Shenzhen Xiyan Communication Centre, China
- BAYSWAN (Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network), San Francisco
- SisterLove, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia, USA & Witibank, South Africa)
- Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC), Kingston, Jamaica
- Double Positive Foundation, Suriname
- Guyana Sex Work Coalition
- PiA Information und Beratung für Sexarbeiterinnnen, Österreich
- Sex Worker’s Outreach Project New Mexico
- Сharitable organization «All-Ukrainian League «Legalife» ,Ukraine
- Sex Worker Outreach Project, Tucson AZ, USA
- Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti, Italy
- move e. V., Berlin/Germany
- BSD e. V., Berlin/Germany
- Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice Alliance (RESURJ)
- Balance Promocion para el Desarrollo y Juventud, Mexico
- SWAN, Supporting Women Alternative Network, Vancouver Society – Vancouver, BC Canada
- Sex Work Association of Jamaica
- Women With a Vision, New Orleans, USA
- Diverse Voices and Action for Equality, Fiji
- Transgender Resource Center, Hong Kong
- Anis – Instituto de Bioética, Direitos Humanos e Gênero, Brazil
- Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
- Sex Workers Outreach Project – Las Vegas, NV, USA
- African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA)
- Kenya Sex Workers Alliance(KESWA)
- MIT (Movimento Identità Transessuale) – Bologna – Italy
- Unzip the Lips Platform for HIV Key Affected Women and Girls (Asia Pacific)
- Ideadonna
- CATS Comite de Apoyo a las Trabajadoras del Sexo, SPAIN
- Social AIDS Commitee (SKA), Warsaw, Poland
- FIZ Fachstelle Frauenhandel und Frauenmigration, Zurich, Switzerland
- Prostitution Information Centre (PIC), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality, Beirut, Lebanon
- SIO Sex Workers Interest Organisation, Denmark
- Maria Magdalena, Project of the Health Department of¨the Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Divergenti Festivl Internazionale di cinema trans, Bologna, Italy
- Colectivo Hetaira, Spain
- Basis-Projekt, Beratungsstelle für Sexarbeiter, Hamburg, German
- HIV Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
- Asociación de Profesionales del Sexo – Aprosex, Spain
- Betty&Books Associazione Culturale – Bologna (Italy)
- SOPHIE BildungsRaum für Prostituierte (Austria)
- Lilith e. V. (i. G.), sex worker peer education project in the course of formation, Bielefeld, Germany
- Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights (UAF)
- Aids Hilfe Bern, Switzerland
- Observatório da Prostituição – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- COYOTE Los Angeles
- ISWFACE International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education
- Best Practices Policy Project, (USA)
- Fundación Triángulo. (España/Spain).
- COGAM Colectivo de Gays, Lesbianas, Transexuales y Bisexuales de Madrid (España/Spain)
- Sekswerk Nederland (NL)
- Animus Association Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
- International Public Association “Gender Perspectives”, Minsk, Belarus
- La Strada, Prague, Czech Republic,
- International Women’s Rights Centre “La Strada”, Chisinau, Moldova
- La Strada Foundation against Trafficking, Exploitation and Slavery, Warsaw, Poland
- Open Gate – Association for Action against Violence and Trafficking in Human Beings, Skopje, Macedonia
- International Women’s Rights Protection and Promotion Centre “La Strada”, Kyiv, Ukraine
- AIDS Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- The Naked Truth, Canada
- Feministinen aloite – Feminist Initiative Finland, Feminist organization supporting sex workers’ rights, Finland
- Acceptess-T, France
- Health Global Access Project (Health GAP), USA
- CSD-Piraten Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Associação Existências (Portugal)
- New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective, Aotearoa/New Zealand
- New York Anti-Trafficking Network (NYATN), New York, USA
- Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), New York, USA
- The Seltzer Firm, New York, PLLC, New York, USA
- Program on Global Health and Human Rights, University of Southern California
- Rights Reporter Foundation, Hungary
- Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, the organisation of sex workers in West Bengal , India
- The International Union of Sex Workers, UK
- Amra Padatik, the foot soldiers, the organisation of the sex workers Children,Kolkata,West Bengal India
- Komal Gandhar, the cultural wing of DMSC ,Kolkata,West BENGAL India
- Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, Dublin Ireland
- PION – Norwegian sexworkers rights organization.
- Organisations: Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de Andalucía (APDHA), Andalucía, Spain
- TERRE DES FEMMES Schweiz, Bern Switzerland
- Balaram Dey Street Anandam, LGBTKH organisation, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
- USHA Multipurpose Cooperative Society,Ltd a financial institute for the sex workers and run by the sex workers.Kolkata,West Bengal,India.
- Durbar DiSHA, Mohila Griha Sramik Samanwaya Committe, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Transgender Network Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland
- Associazione Enzo Tortora Radicali Milano
- Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL) (Austria)
- Austrian Society for Sexologies – ÖGS (Austria)
- Swiss Rainbow Families Association, Zurich, Switzerland
- PortoG, APDES, Portugal
- Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI), Ireland
- National Forum for Democracy and Development, Kathmandu Nepal
- Loom-Nepal, Kathmandu Nepal
- Migrant Sex Worker Project, Canada
- Butterfly: Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Network, Canada
- Association Fleur de Pavé, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Winnipeg Working Group for Sex Workers’ Rights, Canada
- Drodrolagi Movement, Fiji
- Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales MUJERES DEL SUR – PERÚ
- Power Inside, Baltimore, Maryland, (United States)
- Tamaulipas Diversidad VIHDA Trans A.C., Mexico
- National Center for Transgender Equality, USA
- Associazione Non si Tratta, Bologna, Italy
- Peers Victoria Resources Society, Victoria, BC, Canada
- Stichting Ultimate Purpose, Suriname
- Calala Fondo de Mujeres, Spain
- Project “Social work for Male Sex Workers”, Austria
- bufas e.V., Bündnis der Fachberatungsstellen für Sexarbeiterinnen und Sexarbeiter, Berlin, Deutschland
- Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (South Africa)
- Sisonke – The National Sex Worker Movement of South Africa
- Asia Pacific Masters Alumni for Human Rights and Democratisation (APMA)
- Prostitutas Indignadas, Colectivo de Mujeres Trabajadoras de Sexo, Spain
- Feminist Ire, Ireland
- Dortmunder Mitternachtsmission e.V. , Germany
- GAT – Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
- Collectif des Femmes de Strasbourg Saint Denis sexworkers,Paris, France
- STRASS (Syndicat du Travail Sexuel), France
- Scarlett Umbrella Southern Art Alliance/ GA Coyote chapter. Atlanta & Athens GA. USA
- PACE Society, Vancouver, Canada
- ACT UP NY – AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power – USA
- Grupo Transexual Portugal – Portugal
- Urban Realists (sex work) health, safety and planning consultants, Sydney, Australia
- PONY, USA
- Gayten-LGBT, Serbia
- TAMPEP International Foundation
- Cabiria, communtiy-health organisation for sex workers, Lyon, France
- Life Quality Improvement Organisation Flight, Croatia
- TARSHI, New Delhi, India
- Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, Canada
- Network for the Elimination of Police Violence, Toronto, Canada
- Sex work Projects Programme, Aids Fonds, the Netherlands
- Political Critique Ukraine, web-magazine, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Young Conservatives, Unge Høyre, Norway
- MAP Foundation, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center, USA
- Sex Workers Outreach Project – NYC Chapter, USA
- Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), USA
- Enhedslistens queerudvalg // Queer feminist working group of the Danish Red-Green Alliance
- Le Graziose- sex worker colletive Genoa-Italy
- XENIA, Fachstelle Sexarbeit, Bern, Switzerland
- Ca Revolta. Associació sociocultural. València-País Valencià-Spain
INDIVIDUALS
- Dr Teela Sanders, Reader in Sociology, University of Leeds (UK)
- Katie de Long, author, former sex worker- US
- Alessandra Voutsinas, social worker, Palermo, Italy
- Sonia Corrêa, research associate at ABIA, co -chair of Sexuality Policy Watch, Brazil
- Paul J. McConnochie – Producer / Director / Animator – Vortex42Studios, Scotland, Denmark, Germany
- Professor Jane Scoular, Law School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK
- Tanya Serisier, Lecturer in Criminology, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
- Eurydice Aroney, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology, Sydney, (Aus)
- Caoimhe Mader McGuinness, PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London (UK)
- Luca Stevenson, sex worker, coordinator ICRSE, UK
- Veronica Munk, coordinator TAMPEP-Germany
- Dr Alison Phipps, Director of Gender Studies, Sussex University (UK)
- Ali Can Kalan, MA East European Studies, IR Coordinator at Pink Life
- Stewart Cunningham, PhD candidate, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
- Eva Klambauer, PhD candidate at King’s College London (UK)
- Dr. Lucy Neville, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University (UK)
- Professor Phil HUbbard, University of Kent (UK)
- Laura Connelly, PhD Student, University of Leeds (UK)
- Dr. Billie Lister, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Leeds Beckett University (UK)
- Alex Feis-Bryce, National Ugly Mugs
- Francisca Funk, Sexworker , Germany Frankfurt
- Dr P.G. Macioti, Hydra e.V., Berlin, Germany
- Mark McCormack, Co-Director, Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities, Durham University (UK)
- Irina Maslova- – Chair Coordination Committee on prevention and fight against HIV/AIDS
- in the Russian Federation and Leader Silver Rose
- Laetitia, Harm reduction and sexual health educator (Portugal)
- Dr Jane Pitcher, Loughborough University, UK
- Silke Suck, sysadmin, ex sexworker, Germany
- Dan Gallin, Global Labour Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
- Filipa Alvim, Anthropologist, Lisbon, Portugal
- Cameron Watt, student and community activist, Napier University, UK
- Simona & Ramona, performance art duo, Bucharest, Romania
- Dr Anne Mulhall, Director, Centre for Gender, Culture & Identities, University College Dublin
- Sonja Dolinsek, PhD candidate, University Erfurt (Germany)
- Kolja Sulimma, Engineer, Frankfurt (Germany)
- Dr Kate Hardy, Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations, University of Leeds (UK)
- Margaret Corvid, sex worker and writer (UK)
- Dr Agata Dziuban,Faculty Member, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)
- Roxana V, sex worker (Romania/Hungary)
- Dr Heidi Hoefinger, Gender/ Sexuality Studies, Institute of South East Asian Affairs, (Thailand)
- Magne Pihl, Socialworker, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Sarah Jenny Bleviss, M.P.S., co-founder and organizer, Sex Workers Outreach Project – New York City (SWOP-NYC), member, U.S. Women and PReP Working Group and U.S. Center for Sex Work Research and Policy (USA)
- Derek J. Demeri, South Jersey Regional Director, New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance
- Janet Duran, North Jersey Regional Director, New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance
- Amber Dawn, former sex worker, educator and author, Vancouver, Canada
- Ekaterina, sex-worker, Russia, Spain, France, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Italy
- Jury Kalikov, The Head of AIDS Information & Support Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
- Stefanie Lohaus, Journalist, Missy Magazine, Germany
- Alex Cooper, MA Critical Gender Studies, USA
- Dafna Rachok, co-editor, Political Critique Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Rachel Carlisle, Sex Worker, Volunteer Member SWOP Denver
- Toni Mac, sex worker, activist with SWOU, London, UK
- Remi Soileau, Sex Worker, New Orleans, USA
- Sabrina Chap – Writer, Musician and Mental Health Activist
- Minerva Valenzuela. Former sex worker, Cabaret artist. Mexico.
- Professor Paul Braterman, MA, DPhil., DSc
- Helga Pregesbauer, Writer,Vienna
- Emy Fem-Sexworker, performer and Sexworkactivist-berlin, germany
- Marlon Taylor, President Sex Work Association of Jamaica
- Emily Kissner, MAT, Former Volunteer, Veronica’s Voice, Kansas City, KS,USA
- Katherine Koster, Director of Communications – Sex Workers Outreach Project – USA
- Shira Hassan, MSW, former sex worker and past Executive Director of Young Women’s Empowerment Project, Chicago, IL
- Daniela Danna, researcher at the University of Milan, Italy
- Tanuja Jagernauth, former Board Member and adult ally with Young Women’s Empowerment Project
- Cyd Nova, Programs Director at St James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA sex worker and transgender activist, USA
- Ronald Weitzer, Professor of Sociology, George Washington University, USA — research on sex work in the USA and internationally, expert testimony, author of two books and many scholarly journal articles on prostitution, pornography, and human trafficking
- Seth Holmes, PhD, MD, Martin Sisters Endowed Chair Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley, USA
- Alice Calin, writer, Romania
- Brigitte Obrist, Ex-Seworker, Switzerland
- Sharon Oselin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Riverside
- Lindsay Roth, MSW, Sex Worker, Board Chair of Sex Workers Outreach Project -USA
- Borche Bozhinov, male sex worker, Macedonia
- Ntokozo Yingwana, sex worker rights scholar-activist, Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) Africa Correspondent (South Africa)
- Jenny Webber GMB member, Ruskin College
- Marjan Wijers, MA, LL.Mresearcher, consultant and trainer human rights and human trafficking, former president of the European Experts Group on trafficking in human beings, established by the European Commission, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Alicja Palecka, sociologist, Warsaw, Poland
- Jody Paterson, communications strategist and former executive director of Peers Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada
- Charna Albert, BA University of Chicago, Public Health Researcher
- Ralston Beckford
- Blake Nemec, Former Sex Worker, Chicago, Illinois
- Giulia Garofalo Geymonat, PhD, Researcher, University of Lund, Sweden
- Kerry Porth, former Sex Worker, Independent Researcher, Chair, Pivot Legal Society, Vancouver, Canada
- Meg Munoz, Former Sex Worker and Domestic Sex Trafficking Survivor, Founder of Abeni (CA)
- Anna Marya Smith, journalist, performing artist, sex worker, Triple X society co-director, Vancouver B.C.
- Laura Dilley, Executive Director PACE Society, Vancouver, Canada.
- Daniel Rodriguez, Director SWOP Los Angeles, Community Organizer HOOK Online, current sex worker
- Dr Calum Bennachie, Programme and Operations Co-ordinator, New Zealand Prostitutes Collective
- Manta Alexandra, PhD student, CEU
- Dr. Paul J. Maginn, Programme Co-ordinator (Urban/Regional Planning), University of Western Australia.
- Tara Birl , Former Board Chair, Sex Workers Outreach Project
- Carol Leigh, Sex Worker Rights Activist
- Erica Magenta, sex worker and youth-focused peer educator at Respect Inc, Queensland, Australia
- Nandita Sharma, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Michelle Aldrich, retired meeting planner, Original Coyote Member, San Francisco, CA
- Carolina M. Ramos, Esq, Human Rights Attorney
- Lissa M. Knudsen, MPH, New Mexico Health Policy Advocate
- Pardis Mahdavi, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College, Los Angeles, California
- Adrien Lawyer, Co-Director, Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico
- Erica Elena Berman, current sex worker, director of SF Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Art Festival, and founder and director of Whore’s Bath, a sex worker only healing arts project.
- Dan Bigg, Director, Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago IL, USA.
- Dr. Maria Wersig, Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
- Liz Hilton Empower Thailand
- Marianne Schweizer, coordinatrice ASPASIE, Switzerland
- Almuth Waldenberger, sex work historian and anthropologist, Vienna
- Justyna Struzik, sociologist, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
- Dennis van Wanrooij, programme associate, Red Umbrella Fund (NL)
- Shane Anthony Petzer C.S.A.W (SA), M.D.O. Ashoka Fellow, MA Student
- Sylvie Mathys, lawyer, Présidente Association Boulevards, Geneva, Switzerland
- Sarah Kingston, Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Lancaster & Sex Worker Support Volunteer Streetlink Preston, UK
- Mistress Geneva active worker and volunteer support for Aspasie Geneva Switzerland
- Holger Fehmel,lawyer,Germany
- Olivia Benyoussef, programme officer, prévention et formations, Groupe sida Genève, Switzerland
- Ruxandra Costescu, researcher, non-academic feminist, Bucharest, Romania
- Petra Timmermans, (ex)sex worker, activist, lecturer on sex work policies in the Netherlands, member of SWexpertise, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Wuddri Rim, Aids Hilfe Bern
- Borislav Gerasimov, Communications officer, La Strada International and Global Alliance against Traffic in Women, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Anna Ratecka, Faculty Member, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland)
- Neil Howard, Marie Curie Fellow, European University Institute
- Sandro Cattacin, professor, Institute for sociological research, University of Geneva
- Sherry HUI, activist, Executive Officer, JJJ Association(HK).
- Gudrun Greb, coordinator of ragazza e.V. Hamburg, Germany
- Christian Groes-Green, Anthropologist, Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
- Jo Vearey, Associate Professor, University of the WItwatersrand, South Africa
- Pippa Grenfell, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Paula Riedemann, Project Coordinator, Ban Ying Coordination and Counselling Center against Trafficking in Persons, Berlin, Germany
- Jenny Coetzee, Co-Head of Prevention in Key Populations, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Soweto, South Africa and Medical Research Council of South Africa National Health Scholarship PhD Candidate.
- Theodora Becker, PhD Student and Sex Worker, Berlin Germany
- Amalia Jurj, social work student, Romania
- Dr. Katherine Allison, Politics, University of Glasgow, UK
- Nicola Mai, Professor of Sociology and Migration Studies, London Metropolitan University, UK
- Ine Vanwesenbeeck, Professor of Sexual Development, Diversity and Health, Utrecht University; and Senior Advisor at Rutgers, Knowledge Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Kohoutek, private
- Dr Richard de Visser, University of Sussex , UK
- Laura Oso, Professor of Sociology, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
- Noëmi Landolt, Journalist, Zurich Switzerland
- Onkokame Mosweu, Male Sex Worker, BA (Hons) Law and Research, Botswana, Africa
- Steen Schapiro, filmmaker, spokesperson for Seksualpolitisk Forum / Forum for sexual politics, Denmark
- Eini Carina, screenwriter and feminist activist, Denmark
- Sylvie Mathys, attorney, President of Boulevards, an association aiming to defend and promote the rights of street sex workers , Geneva, Switzerland
- Daniel Seiler, President European Lesbian and Gay Manager Association
- Sharlene Kessna-Duncan, Nurse/Project Coordinator.Parish HIV/AIDS Association. Jamaica,working with sex workers
- Nadia van der Linde, Coordinator, Red Umbrella Fund, the Netherlands
- Linda Kristiansen, Selfemployed, member of Seksualpolitisk Forum / Forum for sexual politics, Denmark
- Ashit BK, President, Young Professional Development Society Nepal (YPDSN), PO Box 19243, Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Dr Tuppy Owens (Sex Therapist) of the TLC Trust where Disabled Men and Women find Responsible Sexual Services
- Marie Bruvik Heinskou, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen; Denmark
- Ursula Probst, Anthropologist, Berlin, Germany
- Erman Dolmacı, Queer Cyprus Activist, Cyprus
- Ida Lobba-Schönfeldt, Streetworker, Hamburg, Germany
- Lina María Pinzón Ruiz, Fitnesstrainer, Hamburg, Germany
- Gladys Adriana Becerra, Lawyer and Independent Researcher, MA in Critical Gender Studies, Colombia
- Gosia Stachowiak, outreach worker, Hamburg, Germany
- Valentina Duelli, Student
- Derya Buket, Istanbul, Graphic Designer
- Dr. Melinda Chateauvert, University of Pennsylvania, author, Sex Workers Unite! A History of the movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk
- Alexandre Teixeira, Psychologist and PhD Researcher Porto University (Portugal).
- Dr Sharron A. FitzGerald, Academic, Munich, Germany
- Fabienne Freymadl, Sexarbeiterin, Politische Sprecherin, Berufsverband für erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V., Berlin, Germany
- Martine Collumbien, Senior Lecturer in Sexual Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Mark Gordon, Secular Activist, Switzerland
- Nanna W. Gotfredsen, director, Gadejuristen // The Danish Street Lawyers, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Giovanna Gilges, MA Gender Studies, Germany
- Dr. Jill McCracken, University of South Florida St. Petersburg; SWOP-Tampa Bay, USA
- Yiğit AYDIN, sex worker, activist, Glasgow-SCOTLAND
- Ewelina Ciaputa, sociologist, Kraków, Poland
- Anne Wizorek, Consultant, Author, Feminist activist, Berlin, Germany
- Dorothee Schmidt, Historikerin, Germany
- Holly Richardson, Massachusetts, USA
- Dr Zuzanna Dziuban, research fellow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Austria
- Anna Forbes, MSS, Maryland, USA
- Lizzie Seal, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Sussex
- Emre Busse, Curator & Director, Berlin, Germany
- Bo Jensen, M.Sc. and scholar in the history of prostitution, Denmark
- Tamara O’Doherty, PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Semih Togay, student, istanbul- TURKEY
- Fabio Casagrande,M.A. Social Work , Lecture, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Fakulty of Business & Social Sciences, Department Social Work, Germany
- CARRÉ Jean-Michel, film director
- Ferhat YILDIZ, LGBTI Rights activist, sex worker, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
- Elisa Ludwig, Project Manager, LEFÖ-IBF (Intervention Center for Trafficked Women), Vienna Austria
- Eylül Yıldız, trans* sex worker, Eskişehir-TURKEY
- Dilara Akarcesme, student, editor at HOSI Salzburg (Homosexual Initiative), Salzburg, Austria
- AV Flox, writer, California, United States
- Njáll Hvalreki, writer, former programmer for Sexworker CC-debit systems, Germany.
- Megan Grime, researcher, Decision Science, Strathclyde University, Scotland.
- Gregory Mitchell, PhD Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
- Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
- Julie Ruvolo, Editor, Red Light Rio project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Kerwin Kaye, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University, Middletown , CT, USA
- Katrina Pacey, Executive Director, Pivot Legal Society
- Ellen Berger, alternative Körperwahrnehmung,Seminare, Deutschland
- Katharina Beclin, Assistant Professor for Criminology, University of Vienna
- Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Political Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Carla Corso sex worker and writer, President Comitato per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute Pordenone, Italy
- Pia Covre sex worker founder of Comitato per i diritti Civili Delle Prostitute, Pordenone, Italy
- Dr. Emily van der Meulen, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Ryerson University, Canada
- Dr. Robert Heynen, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, York University, Canada
- Mag. Julischka Stengele, former sex worker, artist, activist and writer, Vienna, Austria
- Flavio Lenz Cesar, journalist, Davida, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Friederike Strack, sociologist, Hydra and Davida, Berlin, Germany
- Dr Zuzanna Dziuban, research fellow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Austria
- Dr. Svati P. Shah, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Petra Östergren, PhD student, Social Anthropology, Lund University, Sweden
- Nicole D. McFadyen, PhD(c), Social Anthropology, York University, Canada
- Daniel Seiler, Director, Swiss Aids Federation, Switzerland
- Ralf Neugebauer, Jurist, Cologne, Germany
- Ray Lam, Male Sex Worker, China
- Liliane Maury Pasquier, MP; Switzer
- Carla Sabrina Marenco, Venice, Italy
- Kay Garnellen, sexworker Berlin
- Camelia Badea, anthropologist, Romania
- Alexandra Oliveira, Professor at University of Porto (Portugal)
- Fiona Gilbertson,
- Kristen DiAngelo, Executive Director Sex Workers Outreach Project, Sacramento, CA, USA
- Christine Nagl, Österreich
- Rainer Pommrich, teacher, Germany
- Andray Patterson- Volunteer- Guyana Sex Work Coalition.
- Jordan Flaherty, Television Producer, TeleSUR English News Network
- Simon Kowalewski, speaker for equalisation, Pirate faction, Berlin Parliament
- Laura Lee, Sex worker and sex workers’ rights advocate, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland
- Cracey Fernandes- Co- Chairman Guyana Sex WOrk Coalition
- Patrick Lalor – Human Rights Advocate and Sex Work Projects Supporter.
- Olena Tsukerman (former sex worker, Ukraine)
- Raven Bowen, MA (crim)-Program Manager SPACES Project, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Annalee Lepp, University of Victoria and GAATW Canada
- Molly Merryman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of LGBT Studies, Kent State University, United States
- Stephanie Klee, sexworker, Berlin/Germany
- Jasna Lisha Strick, author, feminist activist, Berlin, Germany
- Matteo Torcinovich, Venice, Italy
- JM Kirby, Human Rights Advocate, New York, USA
- Jennifer Tyburczy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies and Director of LGBTQ Minor,, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
- Karen Gardiner, Former sex worker, Sex Workers Outreach Project New York
- Daniel Hellmann, artist & sex worker, Berlin, Germany
- Quentin Barthassat, student social science, Lausanne, Suisse
- Isabelle Johansson, PhD-candidate, Lund University, Sweden
- Rev. Elder Pat Bumgardner, Global Justice Institute and Metropolitan Community Churches
- Lena Morgenroth, sex worker, Berlin, Germany
- Helga Amesberger, social scientist, Institute of Conflict Research, Vienna
- Jan Glogau, student, Potsdam, Germany
- Dr. Mithu M. Sanyal, author and broadcaster, Germany
- Charlotte Jahnz, student, Germany
- Roos Schippers, sex worker, member of SWexpertise, Netherlands
- Andrea Knabe-Schönemann, certified business manager, Berlin
- Sven Gramstadt, PhD candidate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Lene tymoshenko, former sexworker Berlin germany
- Paula Marija Balov, student, feminist activist, Berlin, Germany
- Raik Lorenz, student, Leipzig, Germany
- Melissa Gira Grant, journalist and author, former sex worker, New York, United States
- Eve Rickert, author and entrepreneur, Canada
- Franklin Veaux, author, United States
- May-Len Skilbrei, Professor Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
- Boughalem Faterha Suisse
- Rhett Epler, M.A. University of Wyoming
- Gus Grannan, harm reductionist and member of SWOP-Philadelphia, USA
- Hans Christian Voigt, sociologist, human rights activist in Vienna, Austria
- John Michael Lopez, social activist, Germany/USA
- Kristy Choi, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow, Berlin, Germany
- A.D. Burns, author, RWA, RRWA,Missouri, United States
- J. C. Maia, author, therapist, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
- Jean Mabbs, proofreader and editor, UK
- Cassandra Damm, LCSW, Chicago, IL
- Arthur Paris, Chicago, IL
- Kelli Dorsey. former Executive Director of Different Avenues, Washington, DC, USA
- Jane Deaux, Sex Workers Outreach Project, New Orleans Chapter
- Louise LO, Female Sex Workers Outreach Officer, JJJ Association, HK
- Cynthia Rothschild, Independent activist and former AIUSA Board Member, New York, USA
- SWexpertise 21.NL, Dutch Platform for the Improvement of the Position of Sex Workers, The Hague, The Netherlands.
- SHOP, The Hague, The Netherlands
- M.A. Scali, Manager of SHOP The Hague, The Netherlands
- Kristina Mahnicheva, the member of Tais Plus, strong ally, Kyrgyzstan
- Dr Matthew Weait, Professor of Law and Policy, former member, Technical Advisory Group, Global Commission on HIV and the Law, London, United Kingdom.
- Christian Klein, liberal politician, Luxembourg
- Johanna Weber, Germany, Berlin – Sexworker and politcal spokeswomen of German Sexworker Organisation BesD
- Dr. Fuensanta Gual, sex workers support committee, CATS Spain
- Giuliana Gilges-Richards, text trainee, Germany, Düsseldorf
- Jennifer J. Reed, Sociology Ph.D. Candidate, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA
- Dr. LUK Kit-ling, Lecturer, Hong Kong Community College, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University – teaching gender and sexuality subjects and working on research on sexuality education
- Frankie Mullin, journalist, London, UK
- J. Lange, Germany
- Marta Zoppetti, Venice, Italy
- Emiliano Cibin, graphic designer, Venice, Italy
- Julia Stempel, tantric bodywork, Cologne Germany
- Aya de Leon, novelist, lecturer African American Studies Dept. UC Berkeley, California, USA
- Kendy Yim, Hong Kong
- Daughtie Ogutu-African Sex Workers Alliance- Regional Coordinator -Africa
- Anna Bongiovanni- Minneapolis MN United States
- Melanie Schwarz, Sexworker, Bielefeld, Germany
- Phelister Abdalla – Kenya Sex Workers Alliance (KESWA)
- Gábor Szegedi – Research Fellow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna
- Franco Boldini operatore sociale – Modena – Italia
- Birgit Sauer, Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna
- Cristiano Berti, artist, Jesi, Italy
- Pieke Biermann, former sex worker, writer
- Christa Ammann, Social Worker, Member of the legislative council of Berne, Switzerland
- Soraya Simoes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
- Observatório da Prostituição – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Casper Hunnerup Dahl, part-time lecturer, University of Copenhagen, Ph.D.
- Hazwany binti Jamaluddin, statistician, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Mariska Majoor, (ex) sex worker, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Tamara Vukasovic, ASTRA – ANti Trafficking ACtion Serbia
- Marija Andjelkovic, ASTRA Anti Trafficking ACtion Serbia
- Ivana Radovic, ASTRA Anti Trafficking ACtion, Serbia
- Cynthia El Khoury, MPH, Lebanon
- Philipp Oelwein, IT Consultant, Hamburg
- Elouise Abandon, Sexworker, Stuttgart, Deutschland
- Chiara Bertone, Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture, Univ. Eastern Piedmont, Italy
- Jad Adams, Historian, UK
- Antonella Ciccarelli, operatrice sociale, MIT (Movimento Identità Transessuale), Bologna, Italy
- Francisco Majuelos Martínez, Antropólogo, Universidad de Almería, España.
- Stefan Lucke, M.A., PhD Student of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, USA
- Alexander Hofmann (Germany)
- Veronika-Maria Schmid, accountant, Munich, Germany
- Nadine Schreiterer , Sozialpädagogin, München
- Sabine Skutella, social worker, Munich, Germany
- Erin Sanders-McDonagh, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Middlesex University, London, UK
- Tomer Barnea, PhD candidate at the Université de Genève, Switzerland
- Maria Michalski, Social Worker Munich, Germany
- Andrés Sarabia, PhD, Central European University, Hungary
- Marlon Lacsamana, Filipino Migrant Rights Advocate, The Hague, Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Mario Di Martino – Divergenti Festival internazionale di cinema trans – Bologna, Italy
- Marija Jozic, social worker, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Niilas Helander, Artist, Berlin
- Cecilie Lolk Hjort, former sex worker, writer, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Iadrina, social worker, Frankfurt(Oder)/Berlin, Germany
- Christiane Perregaux, Université de Genève (Switzerland)
- Loris Fuschillo, Vicenza
- Artiom Zavadovschi, LGBT activist, Republic of Moldova
- Claire Hayward, PhD Student, London
- Agnès Boulmer, Everybody’s Perfect Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
- Jelena Seidel former sex worker, Copenhagen Denmark.
- Nicolás Acosta, PhD Student, Cultural Anthropology. Oulu, Finland
- Porpora Marcasciano, ex sex worker and President of M.I.T. Movimento Identità Transessuale, Bologna, Italy
- Sara Manfredi, Bologna, Italy
- Rayna Dimitrova, coordinator of outreach work, Bulgaria
- Boysan Yakar, LGBTI Rights Advocate, Mayoral Advisor – District Municipality of Şişli, Istanbul, Turkey
- Kendy Yim, Hong Kong
- Thierry Moosbrugger, roman-catholic theologue, basel, Switzerland
- Sara Thapa Magar,Young Key affected Population (YKAP Nepal)-Program Coordinator
- Nicole Sanner, Sexworkerin, Düsseldorf-Germany
- Dr. Sumeeta Hasenbichler, Frau und Arbeit, Salzburg, Austria
- Ali Channon, Programme Officer in GBV and Sexual Diversity Rights, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Easthertrans, sexworker, the Netherlands
- Annie Tidbury, former Women’s Officer at University College London Union, UK
- Rita Alcaire, PhD Researcher in Human Rights and member of the Portuguese Network on Sex Work
- Michaela Engelmaier, Soziologin, Beratungsstelle f. Sexarbeiterinnen, Graz Austria
- Salome Kokoladze, Philosophy MA, Central European University, Batumi, Georgia/Budapest, Hungary.
- Chi Adanna Mgbako, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic, Fordham University School of Law School, New York. Author, To Live Freely in This World: Sex Worker Activism in Africa (NYU Press)
- Maaike van Groenestyn, SHOP/Spot 46, The Hague, The Netherlands
- Denise Tomasini-Joshi, attorney working in philantropy, New York
- Professor Ulrike Lembke, Law Faculty, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Sarah Oughton, citizen journalist, UK
- Joel Quirk, Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
- Golde Carlsson, co-foundress Berufsverband erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e. V., executive chairwoman at Lilith e. V. (i. G.), sex worker peer education project in the course of formation, Bielefeld, Germany
- Christiane Howe, researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
- Mark Pendleton, Lecturer, School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield
- Mareen Heying, historian, Ruhr-University Bochum/Università di Padova
- Anne Dölemeyer, researcher,Leipzig University, Germany
- Ghiwa Sayegh, Editor in Chief of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, Lebanon
- Anne Burgmer, roman-catholic theologian, switzerland
- Weronika Justyńska, LGBTQ activist [NGO: Factory of Equality], Łódź, Poland
- Arianne Shahvisi, Lecturer in Ethics and Medical Humanities, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
- Irina Krause, social worker, Erfurt, Germany
- Kiesia Carmine, sex worker, Berlin / New Zealand
- Irina Stiop, Beratungsstelle f. Sexarbeiterinnen,Graz, Austria
- Natascha Wey, Switzerland
- Helga Bilitewski, Aktivistin, Berlin, Germany
- Astrid Gabb, Social Worker, Germany
- Amy, former sex worker, Scotland
- Anastacia Ryan, PhD researcher, University of Glasgow, UK
- Jan Lis, researcher, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
- Estelle Pralong, Genève, Suisse
- Laurens Buijs, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- deema kaedbey, PhD in gender and sexuality studies, Kohl: Journal for Body and Gender Research, Lebanon
- Zohra Moosa, The Netherlands
- Béatrice Aebersold, Bern, Switzerland
- Y. Spada, transgender rights activist, Berlin, Germany
- Arikia Millikan, Founder and EIC of LadyBits, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Barbara Zwahlen, Bern, Switzerland
- Lawrence Mamabolo, Registered Counsellor:. independent/private practice. South Africa
- B. Herzog, Social Worker, Leipzig, Germany
- Cemil Inangil, social worker, Munich, Germany
- Dirk Schuck M.A., Political scientist, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Dearbhla Quinn, Student of Equality Studies, University College Dublin
- Nicolas Barnes, Sex Worker & Nurse, Belgium.
- Jasper Lenderink, Consultant sustainability, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Jenny Olaya-Peickner,Social Worker, Vienna, Austria
- Sally Armstrong, Housing Professional and Sex Worker Ally, UK
- Moriah Oxnard, Nurse, New York, NY
- Marie-Eve Volkoff-Peschon retraitée Geneva Switzerland
- Marianne Jonker, Swexpertise, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Norma Jean Almodovar Sex worker rights activist Los Angeles CA
- Alexandra Holmes, MA student, Freie Universitaet, Berlin
- Amanda Mercedes Gigler, Director of Philanthropic Partnerships and Communications, Mama Cash, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Lady Tanja Hamburg Sexworker, Germany
- Maria K. Powell, JD, LLM, Sex Worker Advocate and Articling Student, NB, Canada
- Soraya Silveira Simões, Anthropologist, Professor Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional- IPPUR-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Jess Rousse, cleaning lady, France
- Pietro Saitta, researcher and lecturer in Sociology, University of Messina (Italy)
- Heather Berg, PhD Candidate, Santa Barbara, CA
- Shaun Kirven, Human Rights Activist, Kathmandu Nepal
- Jack Harrow, author/human, Seattle, WA
- Melisa Stephen, BA Northwestern University, activist
- Elene Lam, activist , Canada
- Hella Dee, sex worker (NL)
- Faika El-Nagashi, Human Rights Activist, The Green Party Vienna
- Marissa Ram, Esq., LGBTQ Rights and Immigration Attorney, New York, New York, USA
- Olaf Göbel, Tantra-Massage-Teacher, Velbert, Germany
- Marina Kronkvist, Sexsibilitycoach, Founder of Ritual Play, Finland
- Suzanne B Seltzer, The Seltzer Firm, PLLC, NY, NY USA
- Annie Temple, Sex Worker, The Naked Truth, Surrey BC Canada
- Frannie Blew Velvet, Sex Worker/Performance Artist, Liberty, Tennessee, USA
- Frank Cipriani, Activist, Florida, USA
- Erika S. Becker, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Flora Pagan, social services worker, Victoria BC, Canada
- Anne Lieberman, Program Officer, Sexual Health and Rights, American Jewish World Service, NY,NY
- Ana Mohr, outreach worker, CARUSEL, Romania
- Dr. Marian Ursan, Executive Director, CARUSEL, Romania
- Dr. Susanne Dodillet, Gothenburg University, Sweden
- Niina Vuolajarvi, PhD student, University of Eastern Finland & Rutgers University, United States
- Agnes Foldi,Human Rights Activist, Hungary
- Matilda Bickers, SWOP-PDX, STROLL, SWOC Portland, Portland, OR, USA
- Sunny Maguire, LCSW, NYC
- Niamh Brown, PhD Student, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Anushka Aqil, Public Health, GA, USA
- Marlen Löffler, PhD candidate, University Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
- Mathilde Bouvard, Artist, Bretagne France
- Chris Atchison, Research Associate, University of Victoria, Canada
- Jessica Whitbread, AIDS Activist, Toronto, Canada
- Alice Iancu, Lecturer, Romania
- Patrick John Burnett, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Catherine Fertel, feminist and activist with the LGBTQ Task Force to Undo Mass Incarceration & Institutional Racism, Woodstock, NY, USA
- Frands Sørensen, Denmark
- Ahi Wi-Hongi, Community Liaison at New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective, ONTOP – Ongoing National Transgender Outreach Project, Sex Worker. Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Raviva Hanser, Program Associate, Sexual Health & Rights, American Jewish World Service
- LiLi K. Bright, UK
- Noemi Katona, PhD student, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)
- Dee-Amela Conti, Secretary of Respect Inc, Australia
- Sara Regensburger, Archaeologist and activist, CT, USA
- Paulo Anjos, Social Worker, Portugal
- Maria Lobo, Psychologist, Portugal
- Elizabeth Pride, paralegal, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Teresa Dobney, Health Resource Specialist, Volunteer at Project Safe, Philadelphia, PA, U
- Rebecca Hiles, The Frisky Fairy Sex Education and Coaching, Sex Worker, Herndon, VA US
- Juhu Thukral, Esq, Human Rights Lawyer and Advocate for Women and LGBTQ People, USA
- Florrie Burke, Consultant and Chair Emeritus, Freedom Network USA
- Sealing Cheng, Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
- Tessa de Ryck, human rights worker and trainer, Indonesia
- Magdalena Simstich, Gender Student, sw & Activist, Germany
- Ulrike Rothe, NRW, Sexarbeiterin
- Leyla Safta-Zecheria, PhD Candidate, Central European University Budapest
- Agnieszka Walendzik-Ostrowska, PhD, Poland
- Dr. Elisabeth Greif, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Rhoda Tretow, Feministisches Institut, Hamburg
- Dr. Meike Lauggas, university lecturer and freelance counselor, Vienna
- Karina Laursen, prosex forum member, Denmark
- Fiona Montagud, Calala Fondo de Mujeres, España
- Sinem Hun, Human Rights Lawyer, Turkey
- Nihan Erdoğan, Human Rights Lawyer,Turkey
- Evelyn Probst, Psychologist, Vienna/Austria
- Eva Kaufmann, Councelor, Austria
- Christien Rijks, social worker for sex workers, SHOP, The Hague, The Netherlands
- Jo Bindman, former activist, UK
- Ferenc David – Biopolitics expert, Hungary, Budapest
- Laura María Agustín, UK, Sweden, Spain
- Petra Gugler, Graz, Österreich
- Ovidiu Anemtoaicei, PhD, HECATE Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania.
- Pia Poppenreiter, Entrepreneur, Berlin, Germany
- Adina Manea, Programmes Director, Youth for Youth Foundation, Romania
- Dr Kathryn McGarry, Centre for Rights, Recognition and Redistribution, Maynooth University, Ireland
- Dr Soma Roy, Ph D,Research Officer,Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee,Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Catherine Stephens, sex worker for 15 years
- Mónica Aragonés Padilla, Sociologist,Barcelona, Spain
- Jessica Cusell Fernández, Barcelona Spain
- Leila Ghorbel, Translator, Barcelona, Spain
- Przemysław Hasiński, Łódź, Polska
- Andrés Lekanger, outreach worker, PION, Norway
- Morten Sortodden, sexworkers rights activist, PION, Norway
- Monica Clef, board member PION, Norway
- Jean Cristal, board member, PION, Norway
- Kristin (workname), sexworker, Norway
- Alexandra (workname), sexworker, Norway
- Emilie (sexworker), sexworker, Norway
- Camilla Winther-Griffenfeldt, activist, Norway
- Mr. $, male sexworker, Oslo, Norway
- Mr. Tony, male sexworker, Oslo, Norway
- Mr. AMIR, male sexworker, Oslo Norway
- Rico, male masseur and sexworker, Oslo, Norway
- Mr. Marco, male sexworker, Norway
- Miss Jeanette, female sexworker, Norway
- Miss Donna, transexual sexworker, Norway
- Paramita Chowdhury,Project Coordinator,Amra Padatik, DMSc, Kolkata India
- Esther Wortmann-Knoth, communication consultant, Germany
- Abhijit Lodh , Program Coordinator,Durbar Disha Mahila Griha Sramik Samanwaya Committee,Kolkata,West Bengal India.
- Sergio Lo Giudice, italian MP, Italy
- Jessica Cusell Fernández Barcelona
- Ratan Dolui, Assistant Secretary,Amra Padatik,organisation of the children of sex workers,DMSC,Kolkata,West Bengal, India.
- Puja Roy, Director,TI DMSC, Kolkata,West Bengal India.
- Letonde Hermine Gbedo, cultural mediator , Etnoblog Interculural association, Trieste, Italy
- Rama Debnath, Outreach Worker, working in the organisation for the last 14 years of DMSC, West Bengal India.
- Mampi Halder, Amra Padatik, Kolkata,West Bengal, India,
- Sampa Basak, Amra Padatik, Kolkata,West Bengal, India.
- Stefanie Grabatsch, BASIS-Projekt Hamburg, Germany
- Momita Naskar, Secretary, Durbar Disha, Kolkata, India
- Baby Naskar, President, Durbar Disha Kolkata West Bengal.
- Sintu Bagui, Secretary Anandam, Balaram dey Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Antonella Ius, ideadestroyingmuros, Italy
- Marty Huber, queer-feminist activist, Vienna Austria
- Dr Kiril Sharapov, Senior Lecturer, University of Bedfordshire
- Henrik List, authour, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Matthias Lehmann, Doctoral Researcher, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
- Stefan Benedik, Centre for Gender History, University of Graz, Austria
- Elisabeth Armstrong, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College, US
- Professor Kamala Kempadoo, York University, Toronto Canada
- Boglarka Fedorko, Human Rights, Sex Worker Rights, Trans* Rights activist
- Agnes Foldi, Chairwoman, Association of Hungarian Sex Workers
- Istvan Kobanyai, Social Counsellor
- Marta Gergovics, Social Counsellor
- Jacqueline Suter, Bern, Switzerland
- Dr. Henry Hohmann, Trans* activist, Bern, Switzerland
- Professor Deborah Brock, York University, Canada
- Dr. Sarah Speck, Visiting Professor Universität Tübingen, Germany
- Judith Brandner, Rechtsanwältin und Fachanwältin für Sozialrecht, Berlin, Germany
- Dr. Amanda Glasbeek, Associate Professor of Criminology, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Lubica Vysna, social worker and PhD. candidate, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Dr. Denise Brennan, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
- Pablo Hörtner & Stefanie Klamuth, Librería Utopía – radical bookstore vienna, Austria7
- Janine Revillet, retired accountant, member of Aspasie, Geneva, Swizerland
- Marta Graça, PhD student, Department of Education, University of Aveiro, Portugal
- Dr. Mary Laing, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Northumbria University, UK
- Nine, former project worker at Scot-PEP & consultant to NSWP, Malaysia
- Niall Mulligan, Co. Meath, Ireland
- Alexandra Podova, sex worker, Slovakia
- Kat Kolar, PhD Student University of Toronto, Canada
- Dr. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Melissa Hope Ditmore, Ph.D. Editor, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (Greenwood, 2006)
- Juliana Piccillo, filmmaker, I was a Teenage Prostitute, Whores on Film
- Maria Cecilia Hwang, PhD Candidate, Brown University, USA
- Billie, Community Support Worker, GOSHH (Gender, Orientation, Sexual Health, HIV (Ireland))
- Dr. Helmut Graupner, attorney-at-law (Vienna, Austria), president Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL) (Austria), co-president Austrian Society for Sexologies (ÖGS), member World Association for Sexual Health (WAS)
- Lauren Pragg, PhD Candidate, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Jacqueline Suter, XENIA, Bern Switzerland
- Grogg, Artist, Bern Switzerland
- Jensen Byrne, LGBTI and Human Rights Project Officer, Bangkok, Thailand/Dublin,Ireland
- Simone Wiegratz, Hydra, Deutschland
- Anna Elisabetta Benucci, Venice, Italy
- Gloria Pasqualetto, Venice, Italy
- Samuel Fried, Artist, Bern Switzerland
- Janine Althorp (MA), former exotic dancer, sex work researcher
- Christine Hibbert Sex Worker Jamaica
- Peta-Gay Ebanks- Sex Worker Jamaica
- Emma Eastwood, Senior Media Officer, London
- Angela Wright Sex Worker Jamaica
- Michele Lancione, University of Cambridge
- Sinéad Redmond, abortion and maternity rights activist, Ireland
- Princess Brown – Vice President SWAJ
- Jenice Jackson Public Relation Officer SWAJ
- Samantha Walton Field Officer- SWAJ
- Suzan Brown – Sex Worker- Jamaica
- Rushell Frame- Sex Worker – Jamaica
- Tanisha Boode – Sex Worker – Jamaica
- Andrean Reynelds – Sex Worker- Jamaica
- Andrea Brackett- Sex Worker – Jamaica
- Dr. Linda Duits, affiliated researcher Utrecht University, Amsterdam the Netherlands
- JAshett Cunningham Sex Worker Jamaica
- Christol Stewart Sex Worker Jamaica
- Darlet Williams Sex Worker Jamaica
- Althea Williams – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Michelle Ann-Marie Bennett Sex Worker Jamaica
- Natoya Williams – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Lucy Smith, UglyMugs.ie, Ireland
- Lindsay Blewett, sex worker and PhD student in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies, Toronto, Canada
- Ben Gwalchmai; maker, writer, worker – United Kingdom
- Alessandro Iannelli, communication manager, Berlin Germany
- Siobhan O’Donoghue, Social Justice Activist, Ireland
- Dearbhla Ryan, Community Worker, Irelan
- Kedar Maharjan, Human rights activist, Kathmandu Nepal.
- Paul Formaran, writer, human rights and peace advocate, Philippines
- Michelle Sands, sex worker and sex worker rights activist
- Meghan Maury, former sex worker, Senior Policy Counsel, National LGBTQ Task Force, United States
- Mojca Pajnik, researcher, Peace Institute, Slovenia
- Dr. Erica Lorraine Williams, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA USA
- Damián Castañeda Hidalgo, Social Community Worker, Spain.
- Wellington Pedroso da Silva sex worker Madrid Spain
- Nacho Pardo Benavente, Sex Workers Support Comeettee
- Ana Karen Lopez Quintana, Mexico
- Iztok Šori, researcher, Peace Institute, Slovenia
- Eka Iakobishvili, PhD candidate, University of Essex, Law School/Human Rights Center
- Linda Kavanagh, pro choice activist ireland
- Helen Guinane, pro choice and maternity rights activist Ireland
- Sine Plambech, Anthropologist, Ph.D, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
- Sven Beck, Belgium
- Susan Davis Sex Worker and Advocate, Vancouver BC
- Elena Shih, PhD, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Brown University, United States
- Anlina Sheng, NSWP, Winnipeg Working Group, sex worker, Canada
- Professor Julia O’Connell Davidson, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Mario Esteve sex worker Madrid Spain
- Anne Fehrenbacher, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
- Robert WALOCH, Vienna, Austria
- Martina Weiser, Ananda Tantra Massage Institute, Cologne, Germany
- Ana Luz Mamani Silva, Mujeres del Sur – Perú
- Miriam Needham, Pro Choice Activist Ireland
- Dénes Türei, activist and ally, Budapest Hungary
- Julie Ham, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong
- Spencer Patterson King, Maine, United States
- JaneMaree Maher, Director, Centre for Women’s Studies & Gender Research, Monash University, Australia
- Oryane Mitchell Male Sex Worker- Assistant Treasurer SWAJ
- Athena Thiessen, Winnipeg Working Group, sex worker, Canada
- Whit Forrester, Sex Worker and Artist, Illinois, United States
- Mariah Grant, Freelance Human Rights Consultant, United States
- Ilana Burness, Consultant, Fiji
- Jacqueline Robarge, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Daniela Ponce, Mom. Glendale, California.
- Fairleigh Gilmour, PhD candidate and Assistant Lecturer, Monash University, Australia
- Deepika Soni, Masters of Human Rights and Democratization Student, University Sydney; Intern at UN-ACT Bangkok
- Dr. Rachel Phillips, Research Associate, Centre for Addictions Research of BC, University of Victoria, Canada
- Christian Niederwolfsgruber, Innsbruck, Austria
- Anna Turley, South Africa
- María Palomares Arenas, Calala Fondo de Mujeres, Spain
- Sergio Hoyos Ramos, Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Carla Kuiken, former researcher HIV, Mexico
- Katarzyna Dułak, Psychologist, Sexologist, Antidiscrimination Educator, Gdańsk, Poland
- Grupa Edukacyjna BezTabu, sex educators group, Gdańsk, Poland
- Johannes Albrecht Geist-Herz, Social Worker, Researcher, Vienna, Austria
- PAULA EZKERRA CONSELLERA DE DISTRITO E CIUTAT VELLA, BARCELONA ESPAÑA
- Aleksandra Migalska, sociologist, PhD Candidate, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Guest Researcher in Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo
- Jasmin Qureshi, Communications Officer, Thailand
- Sara Trindade, Social
- Ely-Sex worker, dancer, choreographer, Trieste, Italy
- Ruth Morgan Thomas, former sex worker, Global Coordinator NSWP
- CCM Suriname, Mylene Pocorni
- Ruth Orli Moshkovitz, student of Women’s and Gender History,Vienna, Austria
- Yossef(a) Mekyton, LGBTI activist
- “Mashpritzot” – Queer Anarchists for sex workers rights
- Hanna Hofmann, BesD Leipzig
- Wendy Lyon, human rights lawyer, Ireland
- Zofia Noworól, sociologist, PhD Candidate, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
- Dr Marlise Richter, Gender based violence advocate, South Africa
- Barbara Belliato, Venice, Italy
- Sasha John, Student, India
- Nadja Feicht, Student, Germany
- Nicki Turton. Scotland.
- Laura Aguirre, sociologist, Berlín, Germany
- Katarzyna Dułak, Psychologist, Sexologist, Antidiscrimination Educator, Gdańsk, Poland Grupa Edukacy…
- Tom White, writer, UK
- Georgina Perry, NHS Service Manager, Open Doors, Homerton Hospital, London
- Sina Muscarina, Psychologist & Polyamory Researcher, Vienna, Austria
- Rosa Hannreich, Historian, Vienna, Austria
- Alina Kopytsa, artist, Switzerland
- Trendl Fanni, assistant lecturer, University of Pécs, Hungary
- Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, artist, activist and former sex worker, Berlin, Germany.
- Judith Brandner, Rechtsanwältin und Fachanwältin für Sozialrecht, Berlin, Germany
- Ryan Paul Martinez, Medical Student, Davao, Philippines
- PD Dr. Monika Mokre, Political Scientist, Vienna Austria
- Tobia Tomasi, Venice, Italy
- Parodi Anna Maria, Genova, Italy
- Transgender Punk Activist, Taiwan
- Garret Fitzpatrick, Dublin, Ireland
- Stella Zine, Former Sexworker, Director, Scarlett Umbrella Southern Art Alliance/ GA Coyote chapter. Atlanta & Athens GA. USA.Enid Vazquez, Associate Editor, Positively Aware, Test Positive Aware Network, Chicago, IL U.S.A.
- Kari Hartel , Denver, CO, USA
- Marijana Radulovic, NGO ALTERO, Serbia
- William Chase, College Station, TX, USA
- Annette Gaudino, member ACT UP/NY, Bronx, NY, USA
- Natasha Potvin , PEERS Victoria Resources Society, Victoria, B.C.
- Maya Paley, Social Justice Advocate, Los Angeles, CA
- Morgane Merteuil, sex worker, spokesperson for STRASS, sex worker union, Paris, France.
- Nina Sastri, The Sophian Siren, Former Sexworker, Europe
- Savitri Persaud, PhD Candidate, York University, Canada
- Thomas Jensen, Socialworker, Denmark
- Thorsten Beiderbeck, male nurse, Germany
- Miriam Haughton Assistant Secretary SWAJ
- Lorenzo Paolo Marconi, Entertainment, Fermo, Italy
- Dr Charlotte Cooper, London, UK
- Claudette Johnson- Sex Worker Jamaica
- Maria Reichmann, Vienna, Austria
- Jermaine Burton- Executive Director Colour PinkCreatrix Tiara, creative producer/media-maker/artist/activist/writer, USA / Australia / Malaysia
- Eduarda Alice Santos, co-founder of Grupo Transexual Portugal, Portugal
- Lara de Sousa Crespo, co-founder of Grupo Transexual Portugal, Portugal
- Giorgia Serughetti, Postdoc. Fellow, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Dr Jay Levy, Policy and Advocacy Officer, INPUD Secretariat, London, UK
- Miranda Haroun, Sex Worker, Philadelphia, USA
- Rachael Brennan, BA LLB GradDipIntlHlth, USA/Australia/UK
- Dr. Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Department of Political Science, SFU, Canada
- Vincent Carroll, Councillor, London Borough of Haringey
- Shauna Kelly, social justice activist, Ireland.
- Felicia Anna, sex worker, PROUD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Walter Dietz, Vienna, Austria
- Shaela Dennis, intersectional feminist and LGBT+ rights advocate, sex educator, Indiana, USA
- Amit Malaviya, California, USA
- Kaylin C. Anderson, Washington, USA
- Jennifer Kowalchuk, Sex Worker, Canada
- Petra Boynton, PhD, Social Psychologist, UK
- Hamish Noonan, librarian, Auckland, New Zealand
- Julie Bates, Sex Worker/Sex Worker rights advocate and researcher, Sydney, Australia
- Daria Mogucheva, Translator/Activist, Russia
- Pearl Wong (Queer Theology Academy, Hong Kong)
- Frans van Rossum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Joie Yiu, Body Minister, Hong Kong
- Joseph Cheung, Hong Kong
- Grace Bok(Church pastor,Hong Kong
- Markéta Hronková, human rights lawyer, Czech Republic
- Mieke van der Burg, president Association Women and Law, The Netherlands
- Rose Wu, Feminist theologian
- Rela Mazali, Writer, Independent scholar, Activist, Israel
- John Burridge, supporter of anti-censorship and sex-positive feminism, Swansea, UK.
- Aitch Giles, artist, Edinburgh, UK
- Amber O’Hara (working name), independent sex worker, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- Alicia Sola Prado, Professor, Spain.
- Laure Merindol, Community health official, France
- Tracy Quan, New York, NY, USA
- Ignacio Gámiz Ruiz, social worker, member of acciónenred, Granada, Spain
- Milena Chimienti, Professor, Switzerland
- Holly Combe, TV editor and writer at The F-Word, media pundit and member of Feminists against Censorship, UK. (Signing in individual capacity.)
- Jelena Vidic, psychologist, Serbia
- Serge Balaes, sex workers’ rights advocate and PR specialist.
- Iván Morales, stage author and director, screenwriter, actor. Barcelona.
- Luis G Santiago, New York, USA
- Victoria Columba, Activista, Barcelona, España
- Gabrielle Le Roux, artist and activist for social justice, South Africa
- Matthew Waites, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow, UK
- Justine Murphy, musician and reproductive rights activist (Ireland)
- Timoshka Yakov, sex worker & trans* activist with SWOU & X:Talk, London, UK
- Beth Morgan, sex worker and writer USA
- Sharon Byran`- sex worker- jamaica
- Linda Porn, sex worker, director and actress X, Barcelona Spain.
- Jordi Bordas i Villalba, Conseller de Districte d’ERC Ciutat Vella. Barcelona – Catalonia
- Monique Reid Sex Worker Jamaica
- Christal Gunter – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Linda Williamson – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Suzette Forrester – Sex Worker – Jamaica
- Arriana Walker – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Igor Vuckovic – waiter, Croatia
- Sandra Haughton – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Ruschell Beckford – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Nicolette Baker Sex Worker Jamaica
- Tamara Master- Sex Worker Jamaica
- Bilinda Johnson – Jamaica
- Juan Vera, translator, Cartagena – Spain
- Antonio Centeno, social activist and co-director of “Yes, we fuck!”, Barcelona, Spain
- Mikael Jansson, Ph. D. Scientist, Centre for Addictions Research of BC, University of Victoria
- Hege Grostad, activist and former sexworker, Oslo, Norway
- Kaydene Williams Sex worker Jamaica
- Stacy-ann Robinson Sex Worker Jamaica
- Jenique Coley sex Worker Jamaica
- Kadian Roach – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Tina Poyser -SexWorker- Jamaica
- Kemar Henry- Male Sex Worker -jamaica
- Carol Douglas-Sex Worker Jamaica
- Angela Wilson- sex worker jamaica
- Ophelia Banton- SW Jamaica
- Cavel Lewis Sex Worker Jamaica
- Simone Brooks Sex Worker Jamaica
- Sandra Williams – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Lynette Morris Sex Worker Jamaica
- Saskiah Bennett- Sex Worker Jamaica
- Annmarie Thorpe Sex Worker Jamaica
- Nikeisha Gordon – Sex Worker Jamaica
- Sabrina Sanchez – Sex Worker/Journalist/Mechanic, Barcelona
- Edward Nelson- Friends 4 Life Jamaica
- Kimarley Samuels- Friends 4 Life Jamaica
- Michael Atkinson- Friends 4 Life Jamaica
- Lisa-Marie Ferla, Blogger and Journalist, Glasgow, Scotland
- D.O’brian Russell- Friends 4 life Jamaica
- Andrew Ellis- Friends 4 Life jamaica
- Jahmar chambers- friends 4 Life Jamaica
- Damion Dawkins- Friends 4 Life Jamaica
- Dagfinn Hessen Paust, law graduate, Oslo, Norway
- Brain Mendes-Sex Worker- Friends 4 Life Jamaica
- Brenton Chambers- Friends 4 Life Jamaica
- Nelson Winkler Former Friends 4 Life Member Jamaica
- Martin Wanvik, Trondheim, Norway
- Javon Thompson- Male Sex Worker Jamaica
- Juan Enrique Hernández Muñoz, Bartender,Barcelona, Spain
- Kristof Lahousse, Belgium
- Kate Zen – Migrant labor organizer at the Street Vendors Project (Urban Justice Center), Migrant Sex Workers Project, sex worker, NYC
- Lisa Keogh Finnegan, Biomedical Scientist, Dublin, Ireland.
- Marcelo Maia , Photographer & HIV Activist, New York, USA
- Juliet Brando, sex worker and writer, UK
- Dr. Nicholas de Villiers, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- Syar S. Alia, writer, Selangor, Malaysia
- Zandra L Ellis, MA, LCDC, Founder and Lead Masters- Level Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor at Rise Above Counseling Services, Dallas, TX, USA
- Christoph Theis, Eisenstadt,Austria
- Adele Palazzi, Venice, Italy
- Silvana Parodi,Genova, Italy
- Luciano Torcinovich, Venice, Italy
- Ayesha Sen Choudhury, Human Rights Researcher and Advocate, India
- Marina Tupran, PhD candidate, Bucharest, Romania
- Michael Dresser, Sexological Bodyworker, UK
- Maria Alejandra Ferradas Donnes Lliures deAlicante -españa.
- Dr Calogero Giametta, Aix-Marseille University, France
- Jet Young, trans sex worker, NZ and UK
- Petra Unger, Feminist Researcher and Activist
- Franziska Wallner, student, Vienna/Amsterdam
- Nathan Schocher, researcher, Zurich, Switzerland
- Kieraen Ross, Teacher, Vienna, Austria
- Manuela C. Beyer, trans* sex worker, Munich
- Kate Sheill, human rights advocate, UK/Thailand
- Sara Wondie, Master of social studies of Gender, Denmark
- Anders Dahl, anthropologist, consultant on HIV/AIDS, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Scott Long, human rights activist, researcher, author, Cairo, Egypt
- Matt Schwenteck, Germany, sexual bodyworker and educator, worldwide
- Kate D’Adamo, sex worker advocate and community organizer, USA
- Lea Emilie Dam, BS in gender studies, Master’s student, Lund University, Sweden
- Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, artist and curator, Collectivo TRENZA, Viena, Austria
- Daniela Ortiz, artist, Barcelona, Spain.
- Dr Katrina Forrester, historian, Queen Mary University of London
- Josep Pasqual Requena Pallarés, public worker, retired, València-País Valencià-Spain
- Matilde Senís Canet, teacher, retired. València-País Valencià-Spain
- Isabel Cercenado, teacher. València-País Valencià-Spain
- José Trasancos Fernández, public worker. València-País Valencià-Spain
- Edmée Charrière Lausanne Suisse
- Mitch Cosgrove, Edinburgh
- Amanda Berger, sex worker, Switzerland
- Leontine Bijleveld, independent researcher women’s human rights (member of Amnesty International NL), the Netherlands
- Lesley Finch, former sex worker support worker, Scotland
- Yonatan Zunger, engineer and writer, USA
- Assunta Signorelli- Femminist and gender study expert- Psichiatra, Trieste Italy
- Francesca Corsini educator and social operator of LE GRAZIOSE Genoa- Italy
- Thomas Lundbye, Norway
- Dickon Edwards, blogger and academic, London, UK.
- Undine de Rivière, sex worker, Hamburg, Germany
- Kirstin Innes, author of Fishnet and journalist, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- AB Silvera, trans feminist writer, performer and activist, Glasgow, Scotland
- Vaula Tuomaala, Social psychologist, researcher, Helsinki, Finland
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Trabajo Sexual, es TRABAJO
En su afán por confundir, no son pocas las instituciones públicas, privadas y/o subvencionadas
que, con premeditación, alevosía y una cantidad ingente de odio hacia las Putas, usan los términos
Trata de Personas, Explotación Laboral y Prostitución como si todo fuese lo mismo.
Desde APROSEX queremos y pretendemos despejar tus dudas al respecto de estas locuciones para que tengas claras
tus ideas para la mejor aclaración de los distintos conceptos, no sólo pro abolicionistas, si no además, claramente putófobos.
-La Trata de Personas, englobaría la captación, el transporte, el traslado y la recogida de personas de cualquier sexo, edad, raza y religión con el fin de retenerlas en contra de su voluntad, sometiéndolas a maltrato, amenazas,
secuestro de documentación, etc..con el fin de que se preste un servicio no consentido por la persona tratada.
Independientemente si el trabajo que realiza se refiere a la agricultura, a la industria, al servicio doméstico, o al sexual. Trata es trata y es ilegal.
-Explotación Laboral: Lamentablemente, el nuestro es un país que ha visto seriamente dañados sus derechos laborales y éste ha sido
un detonante para que las personas trabajadoras se hayan visto inmersas, en un alto porcentaje, en una situación
de Explotación Laboral que puede consistir en peores o inexistentes contratos de trabajo, obligación de trabajar
más horas de las que el empresario está dispuesto a satisfacer económicamente, condiciones insanas y/o inseguras,
sueldos ínfimos, incluso por debajo del mínimo establecido por la ley, etc…
El Trabajo SExual, al igual que el resto de los sectores laborales, no está exento de la Explotación Laboral.
– El Trabajo Sexual, consiste en la prestación de determinados servicios que incluyen sexo a cambio de dinero.
Los servicios serán siempre pactados previamente y tanto la persona trabajadora sexual, como la persona contratante, serán mayores de edad. El Trabajo Sexual se ejerce de forma libre y voluntaria, independiente o para terceros. En este último caso, la absurda ley española no permite la contratación por parte del empresario de sus personas empleadas como trabajadoras sexuales, puesto que, con el código penal en mano, sería considerado un proxeneta.
Así pues, si las personas que ejercen Trabajo Sexual no están amparadas por el régimen general de la Seguridad Social es, única y exclusivamente, responsabilidad de las políticas institucionales violentas en lo que al trabajo sexual y sus trabajadoras, se refiere.
No toques a mi Puta. No me toques.
Este artículo ha creado mucha polémica y no sólo en Francia. Me resulta curioso porque, nosotras las putas, luchamos contra las multas a nuestros clientes y la criminalización que ello conlleva. Peor situación para ellos, peor situación para nosotras. En eso, creo que todas estamos de acuerdo.
Sin embargo, cuando son ellos, nuestros clientes, los que reivindican su derecho a nos ser criminalizados, reivindicando también los nuestros al hacerlo, se clama al cielo, hablando de paternalismo y de patriarcado y de qué se yo qué más cosas que la sociedad no comprende.
Personalmente agradezco el gesto que han tenido estos hombres, dando nombres y apellidos, algo que la gran mayoría de las putas aún no se atreven a hacer. ¿Y les atacamos por ello? Cada unx es muy libre de decidir cuándo y cómo sale del armario pero morder a quien da la cara por nuestro Colectivo Profesional, lo veo absurdo. Simplemente no lo comprendo.
Desde www.aprosex.org luchamos y lucharemos por incluir a los clientes en la lucha por nuestros derechos y libertades. Tal vez deberíamos recordar que nuestra premisa ante muchas manifestaciones, aunque con otras palabras ha sido, No Toques a mi Putero.
PaulaVip
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