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Sex Work

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Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
APNSW facilitates sex worker participation and information-sharing on both technical and policy issues; encourages leadership amongst male, female, and transgender sex workers; and does direct advocacy.

Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network
CEERHN’s mission is to support, develop, and advocate for harm reduction approaches to drug use, HIV, public health, and social exclusion by following the principles of humanism, tolerance, partnership, and respect for human rights and freedoms.

Desiree Alliance
The Desiree Alliance is a coalition of health professionals, social scientists, professional sex educators, sex professionals, and their supporting networks working together for an improved understanding of the sex industry and its human, social, and political impacts.

Different Avenues
Different Avenues provides services to youth and young adults who are homeless or living in insecure housing, which may include: transgendered, gay, lesbian, bisexual, young parents, and those who engage in street survival strategies such as sex for favors.

Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a forum of 65,000 sex workers based in West Bengal, India, addresses the structural barriers sex workers face, which cause material deprivation or social exclusion.

EMPOWER Foundation
Empower offers services to sex workers, such as outreach, a drop-in center, counseling, education, and advocacy in Patpong, Bangkok. Empower sees that the problem in sex work is because of discrimination and other human rights abuses from society.

From Our Streets with Dignity (FROST'D)
FROST'D programs work with sex workers in harm reduction services: HIV testing, ID apps, case management, clothes, food, mobile units, and referrals.

HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive)
HIPS provides services for young male, female, and transgender individuals engaging in various forms of sex for gain on the streets of Washington, D.C.

International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE)
ICRSE brings sex workers and their allies together on an international level: to further the social acceptance and respect for sex workers; to guarantee their civil rights; and to organize the support of allies.

Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)
Based in Cape Town, South Africa, the NSWP is an international organization that promotes sex workers’ health and human rights.

New Zealand Prostitutes Collective
NZPC advocates at all levels for the rights of sex industry workers, lobbies for the repeal of prostitution laws in accordance with the models of decriminalization, provides mutual support and information for and by sex workers, and educates the public and media about issues affecting sex workers.

North American Task Force on Prostitution
NTFP is a network of sex workers, sex workers' rights organizations, and others who support the rights of sex workers to organize on their own behalf, work safely and without legal repression, travel without legal restrictions, have families and raise children, and enjoy the same rights, responsibilities, and privileges as other people.

Sangama
Sangama aims to bring sexuality, sexual preference, and gender identity into the realm of public discourse and link it to gender, human rights development, and other social movements. Sangama campaigns for changes in existing laws which discriminate against sexual minorities including sex workers and people living with HIV/AIDS.

SANGRAM
SANGRAM works to create a collective consciousness among women, to increase their ability to negotiate safety independently, and to strengthen women to assert their rights. It also helps discuss official policies and legal and ethical issues which affect marginalized groups and creates spaces which these groups can use.

Scarlet Alliance
Scarlet Alliance, the Australian Sex Workers Association, aims to achieve equality and social, legal, political, cultural, and economic justice for past and present workers in the sex industry, enabling them to be self-determining agents who build their own alliances and choose where and how they work.

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