SEX WORK IN THE NEWS
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Community Resources
Sex Worker and LGBTQIA Resource Guide: COVID-19
(New York Transgender Advocacy Group, GLITS, and Decriminalize Sex Work, March 2020)
Academic Journals and Reports
Craigslist Reduced Violence Against Women
(Cunningham et. al, 2019)
A Review of the Criminalisation of Paying for Sexual Services in Northern Ireland
(Queens University Belfast School of Law/Ellison, Ní Dhónaill and Early 2019, on behalf of the UK DOJ)
The Impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the Health and Safety Practices of Sex Workers
(Abel et. al., 2007)
Community-Based Responses to Negative Health Impacts of Sexual Humanitarian Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Criminalization of Sex Work and Migration in the US
(Hoefinger et. al, 2020)
Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health (Cunningham and Shah, 2018)
Research Brief: After SESTA/FOSTA
(The Samaritan Women)
Twenty Years of Failing Sex Workers: A community report on the impact of the 1999 Swedish Sex Purchase Act
(Fuckförbundet, 2019)
A Decade of Decriminalization: Sex work ‘down under’ but not underground
(Abel, 2014)
Moving Beyond Supply and Demand ‘Catchphrases: Assessing the uses and limitations of demand-based approaches in anti-trafficking
(Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, 2011)
Diversion From Justice: A Rights-Based Analysis of Local “Prostitution Diversion Programs” and Their Impacts on People in the Sex Sector in the United States
(Yale Law School, 2018)
Decreasing Human Trafficking Through Sex Work Decriminalization
(Albright and D’Adamo, 2017)
Stigma in the Sex Trades
(Wolf, 2018)
The Nature and Prevalence of Prostitution and Sex Work in England and Wales Today
(University of Bristol, 2019)
New Directions in Research on Human Trafficking
(AAPSS/Weitzer 2014)
The Swedish Law To Criminalize Clients: A failed experiment
(American University, Washington College of Law/Jordan, 2017)
Un-Meetable Promises: Rhetoric and Reality in New York City’s Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
(Yale Law School, 2018)
The Human Cost of ‘Crushing’ the Market: Criminalization of Sex Work in Norway
(Amnesty International, 2016)
Beyond the Gaze: Briefing on Customers Who Buy Sex Online
(University of Leicester/Sanders et. al, 2017)
The Intersection of Sex Work and HIV Criminalization
(The Center for HIV Law and Policy, 2017)
Ten Reasons to Decriminalize Sex Work
(Open Society Foundations/Public Health Program, 2015)
Decriminalization of Sex Work To Fight HIV Infections Worldwide
(The Lancet, 2014)
DSW’s Book List
Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk, by Melinda Chateauvert
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights, by Molly Smith and Juno Mac
Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right, by Judith Lynn Hanna
Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, by Alison Bass
State of Sex, by Barbara Brents
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by Adrienne Maree Brown
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Organizations and Allies
Amnesty International
Sex Worker Rights are Human Rights (2015)
Amnesty International pushes policy and research on protection of sex workers rights (2016)
Q and A on policy to support the human rights of sex workers
Equality Now
Global Network of Sex Worker Projects
Don’t Hate or Conflate!: Trafficking Brief from NSWP
A Community Guide: Sex-Workers Experiments of Stock-Outs of Commodities and Treatments
Sex Work and the Law: Understanding Legal Frameworks and the Struggle for Sex Work Law Reforms
Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS) DC
Human Rights Watch
Why Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized (2019)
US: Block Law Endangering Sex Workers (FOSTA) (2019)
Stop Criminalizing Sex Work in DC: Dozens of groups urge passage of decriminalization Bill
New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG)
Dismantling Stigma in the Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Community
Red Canary Song
How Red Canary Song Is Advocating for Migrant Sex Workers
Sex Worker Outreach Project - United States
Know Your Rights Manual for the Sex Worker Community: Criminal Law (National Lawyers
Sex Workers Project (Urban Justice Center)
The Use of Raids to Fight Trafficking in Persons (2009)
Woodhull Freedom Foundation
Woodhull’s Lawsuit Against FOSTA