Documents [sex work]

Testimony on New York City Council Resolution
Sex Workers Project
06/11/2008
PDF - 232K
Testimony to NYC Council on a resolution regarding House and Senate versions of TVPRA.
Sex Workers' Rights Under CEDAW
Sex Workers Project
08/03/2007
PDF - 324K
A report to the committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Values Statement
Sex Workers Project
05/14/2007
PDF - 196K
The Anti-Prostitution Pledge
Sex Workers Project
03/30/2007
PDF - 388K
The Conflation of Trafficking and Sex Work
Sex Workers Project
03/30/2007
PDF - 320K
Demand
Sex Workers Project
03/30/2007
PDF - 264K
The Anti-Prostitution Pledge
Sex Workers Project
03/30/2007
PDF - 388K
The Conflation of Trafficking and Sex Work
Sex Workers Project
03/30/2007
PDF - 320K
Demand
Sex Workers Project
03/30/2007
PDF - 264K
Statement on Trafficking for Commission for the Status of Women
Sex Workers Project and Network of Sex Work Projects
02/22/2007
PDF - 56K
Statement highlighting SWP/NSWP
Comments on Report of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking
Sex Workers Project
09/01/2006
PDF - 271K
SWP comments to the Special Rapporteur on the notion of demand, conflation of sex work and trafficking and findings from Behind Closed Doors that highlight the experiences of migrant sex workers.
Sex Workers and Finances: A Case Study of New York City
Juhu Thukral
06/01/2006
PDF - 1024K
This article, published in Research for Sex Work 9, is based on data from "Behind Closed Doors."
Submission to NGO ICCPR Shadow Report
Sex Workers Project
05/01/2006
PDF - 227K
This report features information from "Revolving Door" and "Behind Closed Doors" regarding violence against sex workers and police response.
Fact Sheet: Unfriendly Encounters: Street-Based Sex Workers and Police in Manhattan, 2005
Sex Workers Project
03/21/2006
PDF - 32K
A fact sheet documenting aggressive policing of street-based sex workers in Manhattan and recommending alternatives.
Fact Sheet: Sex Workers and Taxes
Sex Workers Project
03/20/2006
PDF - 36K
A fact sheet on issues that sex workers should consider in paying their taxes.
Sex Workers and Police in New York City
Juhu Thukral and Alexandra Murphy
07/06/2005
PDF - 1.5888671875MB
This article, published in Research for Sex Work 8, is based on data from "Behind Closed Doors".
Sex Workers: Perspectives in Health and Human Rights
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
04/01/2005
PDF - 392K
This report includes articles by SWP staff on funding restrictions that affect sex workers, and on indoor sex workers.
Behind Closed Doors
Sex Workers Project
03/30/2005
PDF - 4.5MB
An analysis of indoor sex work in New York City
Fact Sheet: Federal Travel Act
Sex Workers Project
03/16/2005
PDF - 208K
A fact sheet about the implications of the Federal Travel Act (1961) for sex workers.
Fact Sheet: What is "demand" in the context of trafficking in persons?
Sex Workers Project
03/01/2005
PDF - 76K
A joint statement on the concept of 'demand' for trafficking by the Sex Workers Project, Network of Sex Work Projects and Prostitutes of New York.
Human rights violations: The acceptance of violence against sex workers in New York
Melissa Ditmore and Catherine Poulcallec-Gordon
12/01/2003
PDF - 56K
This article, published in Research for Sex Work 6, is based on data from "Revolving Door".
Revolving Door
Sex Workers Project
06/23/2003
PDF - 1.2998046875MB
An analysis of street-based prostitution in New York City.

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