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SHARP Publication Wins Award for Excellence in Communications

Date:
May 1, 2009

Our Lives Matter: Sex Workers Unite for Health and Rights, a SHARP-funded report highlighting the creative ways in which sex workers in eight countries have organized to defend their human rights and health, has been awarded the Wilmer Shields Rich Excellence in Communications Silver Award for Public Information Campaigns. The award is sponsored by the Council on Foundations and recognizes effective communication efforts to increase public awareness of foundations and corporate giving programs.

Our Lives Matter describes how sex worker activists have challenged unfair incarceration, violence, extortion, eviction, and humiliation; fought for equal access to health care services; and called for sex work to be officially recognized as work.

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Our Lives Matter: Sex Workers Unite for Health and Rights
August 2008
This OSI report highlights the efforts of advocates and sex worker groups from around the world to organize and define their human rights.

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