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45: 309:. According to ESWA executive director Sabrina Sanchez, 'The vote demonstrates that despite the onslaught of anti-rights attacks on sex workers and other marginalised groups, Europe is increasingly in favour of rights-respecting solutions to violence against our communities.' ESWA director of programmes Luca Stevenson (himself a former sex worker) stated that the Nordic model is "extremely anti-feminist" and "ignores the capacities of women and other people to make decisions about their own life." 251: 203:
in England (1975), the New York Prostitutes Collective (1979) which later became USPROS, the Australian Prostitutes Collective (1981) which is now known as the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria (PCV), and the Italian Committee for Civil Rights of Prostitutes (1982). The Canadian Organisation for the
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The ICPR was relaunched as the International Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) in Amsterdam in 2005. It drew up another charter of rights for sex workers, with a focus on European countries. When two sex workers, Dora in Turkey and Jasmine in Sweden, were simultaneously
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resolution on prostitution, which aimed at criminalisation of sex work in Europe. The resolution passed (234 votes in favour, 175 against and 122 abstentions) on 14 September 2023, but its most controversial parts were removed, including references advocating the
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murdered in the summer of 2013, ICRSE and its member organisations held protests in 29 cities across the world to end violence against sex workers. In 2021, the organisation adopted its current name "European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance" (ESWA).
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have said the Nordic model actually increases violence and dicrimination against sex workers, leaves them more excluded from society and more vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections such as
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and housing". The Charter established a human rights-based approach, which has subsequently been further elaborated by the sex workers' rights movement.
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and HYDRA in Germany also assumed significant roles in the movement. The International Committee for Prostitutes Rights was formed in 1985.
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On 5 September 2023, the ESWA was part of a coalition of many sex workers' rights and human rights organisations (also including
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Security Meets Gender Equality in the EU: The Politics of Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation
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ESWA's Luca Stevenson discussing sex workers' rights activism and overlapping interests with the
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decriminalisation of "all aspects of adult prostitution resulting from individual decision"
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In the mid-1970s a highly politicised prostitutes' rights movement, later known as the
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International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE)
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Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy
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Amsterdam-based European network of sex workers' rights organisations
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International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe
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International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe
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Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition
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International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights (ICPR)
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International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
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For the alleged cult based in the United States, see
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Sex Worker Union Organising: An International Study
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International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe
Eastern Service Workers Association

Non-profit organization
Sex workers' rights
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Europe
Central Asia
https://www.eswalliance.org/
sex workers' rights
nonprofit foundation
Amsterdam
Netherlands
sex workers' rights movement
strike by French prostitutes in 1975
English Collective of Prostitutes
Red Thread
World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights
feminist
forced prostitution
decriminalisation of "all aspects of adult prostitution resulting from individual decision"
human rights
civil liberties
freedom of speech
health insurance
digital rights
PrivacyCamp
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International

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