Advocacy

A grant to support the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Workers Project (SWP) to develop joint messaging and advocacy strategies linking debates on sex work and trafficking to a struggle for sexual and economic rights. Under this grant, SWP focused on three areas including: further developing the Working Group on Sex Work and Human Rights and continuing to utilize it as a resource for participants to share key policy updates and resources, and opportunities for joint advocacy; finalizing media advocacy documents which organizations can use to create their own advocacy documents and talking points, and which promote rights-based perspectives on sex work and human rights that are accessible to non-experts on this issue; and engaging in joint advocacy activities with journalists, allies, and donors on 3 key areas: the impact of the Anti-Prostitution Pledge on public health and human rights; creating rights-based policies on sex work, as opposed to demand-oriented policies; and on the general conflation of prostitution and trafficking, which feeds policies on sex work that sacrifice human rights standards.

New York, NY |  $50,000 |  1 year |  www.urbanjustice.org