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Sex Workers' Action Program (SWAP) Hamilton is a sex worker-led advocacy group in Hamilton, Ontario led by Executive Director Jelena Vermilion. Begun...

Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers is an international day of action to protest the violence leveled against sex workers around the world. First observed...

This is a list of sex worker organizations which advocate for sex workers' rights. Almost all sex worker organizations around the world favour the decriminalization...

Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary. The term "sex worker" is used by some types of sex workers (i.e. prostitutes) to avoid invoking the stigma associated...

Jelena Vermilion is a Canadian sex work advocate and the executive director of Sex Worker Action Program (SWAP) in Hamilton, Ontario. Vermilion is outspoken...

American transgender sex workers were less likely to have access to job programs than Latina transgender sex workers. Sex workers as a population experience...

Sex workers' rights encompass a variety of aims being pursued globally by individuals and organizations that specifically involve the human, health, and...

Decriminalizing sex work Sex worker movements Prostitution and the law Sex workers' rights Center, Metta (2006-01-01). "Constructive Program". Metta Center...

carries out programs and outreach for HIV/AIDS prevention, and aiding street children, intravenous drug users, and sex workers. The program, founded in...

The Workers Party of Britain (WPB), also called the Workers Party of Great Britain (WPGB) or Workers Party GB, is a socialist and socially conservative...

successful peer education: a comparison of two HIV prevention programs run by sex workers in India and South Africa" (PDF). LSE Research Online. 44 (1–2):...

intimidation for being a sex worker. It is also important to recognise that undocumented migrant sex workers that are impacted by policing of sex work are predominantly...

affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or...

incentivizing non-trafficked sex workers to declare themselves to be trafficking victims and enter aid and rehabilitation programs to avoid prison sentences...

initiative, meaning that anyone who is a registered sex offender—including sex workers and those whose actions were not Internet-based—to turn over a list of...

regulate unsafe, exploitative practices against sex workers. The legalization of sex work also grants sex workers the autonomy to decide what they wish to do...

the sex work industry excludes the workers from protection provided by international, federal, and state regulations, making the rights of sex workers fundamental...

to sex services premises with more than three workers, promote safe sex education and practice by clients and sex workers, and enable sex workers to report...

exploitation". Many sex workers' rights organizations, however, argue that the new law entrenches and maintains harm against sex workers since sex workers are still...

criminal penalties for sex work. In countries that decriminalize sex work, sex workers receive the same protection and recognition as workers in other industries...