ASWA and CHANGE analyse the effects of the U.S.A Supreme Court’s ruling -Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath (APLO) on sex workers. ASWA and CHANGE- https://srhrforall.org had discussions yesterday about the, Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath (APLO). The anti-prostitution loyalty oath (APLO) is a provision in the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (the Act) that

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated communities across Africa. It has disrupted means of livelihoods, strained health services and heightened human rights violations. Sex workers are among the worst impacted by both the pandemic and the response. Prior to the pandemic, most governments were unresponsive to the needs and human rights of sex workers. Presently, in

Basic protective measures against the new coronavirus.

The second Sex Workers Academy Africa (SWAA) this year kicks off today with 18 participants from Seychelles, Malawi and Kenya attending. This is the 21st edition since the inception of the innovative Academy in 2014 that has greatly led to building of a vibrant sex worker-led movement in Africa.   A notable aspect of this

Sex worker-led groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo have raised concerns rampant rape of sex workers by police and military officers. The Congolese Alliance for Human Rights (ACODHU-TS) and UMANDE, which are both sex worker-led collectives say the violence has been on the rise since 2018 when the government launched an operation called Ujana to apparently ‘rid the country of

Kenya’s male sex worker-led group, HOYMAS (Health Options for Young Men on HIV/AIDS & STI) is one of the recipients of this year’s VIIV Healthcare Positive Action Challenge on Sex, Work, Life and HIV: Stigma-Free Services for Sex Workers. The award presented during this year’s International Aids Society(IAS) Mexico 2019 conference was given to Hoymas

All over the world, sex workers experience high rates of violence. Even where there are high rates of violence against women, sex workers experience a higher burden The majority of sex workers have experienced violence in their lives, and the majority have experienced more than one violation. Indeed, many research studies have concluded that violence

The chairman of one of the administrative regions in Tanzania, Simon Tyosela, has called for recognition of sex work as work. During a meeting to discuss the region’s 2019-2020 budget this month, Tyosela asked fellow leaders to consider sex work as a business that could generate income for the regional government. He proposed that there

Leaders of several sex–worker lead organizations in Africa are attending this year’s UN session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. The leaders are part of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) delegation whose main objective is to lobby for inclusion and engagement of sex workers in high-level

Sex workers are some of the easy targets of human traffickers in Nigeria. Poverty and collapse of law and order in Libya has made it easy for various gangs to sneak sex workers from various states of Nigeria to Europe, where various reports show they suffer gross human rights violations and abuse. Hundreds of others