FACTSHEET: THE FAR-REACHING IMPACT OF THE LAWS GOVERNING SEX WORK
There are a variety of legal models to regulate sex work around the world. A few countries have laws that respect the rights of sex workers, others have various levels of punitive, oppressive laws with devastating consequences for sex workers, their families and society at large. Unfortunately, the latter characterises the approach of most countries […]
FACTSHEET: SEX WORKERS’ RIGHTS ARE WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Sex workers’ rights are central to the fight for women’s rights and for achieving gender equality. Yet, there continues to be disagreement about how best to ensure women in the sex industry are free from violence and discrimination. Click here to check out all the factsheets produced in the Counting Sex Workers In! Campaign.
Count Me In! supports the new bill that fully decriminalises sex work in South Africa
1 February 2023 Full decriminalisation of sex work ensures that the workers have access to health, justice, education, and employment opportunities and can enjoy all fundamental human rights. In South Africa, the Department of Justice has recently published a draft Amendment Bill that intends to decriminalise sex work fully. The Count Me In! consortium (CMI!) […]
Shaping the Dutch Feminist Foreign Policy: Special edition of Vice Versa with Count Me In!
Following the footprint of other countries, the Netherlands is on its way to developing a Dutch Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP). As a feminist consortium, Count Me In! joined with the Dutch media platform Vice Versa so that the policy can grow to the right direction to be gender-transformative, intersectional, and anti-racist. Evidence shows that feminist […]
FACTSHEET: VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF SEX WORKERS
To a large extent, the violence in the lives of sex workers is created by the conditions of criminalisation. Sex work is not inherently violent but discrimination and stigma against sex workers generate violence and limits sex workers’ access to justice. Find the factsheet in: English | French | Hindi | Russian | Spanish Go to this Counting Sex Workers In! campaign page for […]
CMI! on Vice Versa Global’s Gender-Based Violence Special
Restrictions of and attacks on civic space affect all human rights defenders. But women human rights and land defenders face additional and specific risks and violence because of their gender, identity, and work. The Dutch media platform Vice Versa Global sheds light on how some of the Count Me In! partner women human rights defenders, […]
Feminist Letter to guide the Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation policy
Together with five feminist consortia* funded by the Dutch government, CMI! sent a strong feminist statement to the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. In the letter, we urged her to continue the government’s support for women’s rights and feminist movements and to ensure that all policy areas contribute to and uphold gender equality, […]
“Be bold and ambitious”: Count Me In!’s recommendations for Dutch Feminist Foreign Policy
Count Me In! calls for a bold and ambitious approach from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation (MFA) to its Feminist Foreign Policy. CMI! strongly recommends that feminist foreign policy should be gender-transformative, intersectional, and anti-racist. In CMI!’s input for the Feminist Foreign Policy consultation process of the Ministry, we called the […]
To the CEDAW Committee: Sex work is work. It is not trafficking.
On 02 June, International Sex Workers’ Day, the Count Me In! Consortium stands in solidarity with sex worker-led organisations and networks advocating for sex workers’ rights and condemns the discriminatory and potentially harmful measures proposed in CEDAW’s General Recommendation 38.
CMI! recommendations on COVID-19 and women’s human rights
The first signs of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 are well-documented and alarmingly clear. It is exacerbating existing inequalities for women, girls, and trans people across the globe, as well as injustices based on race, class, and ability. It is vital and urgent to ensure that these inequalities are not reinforced and worsened. At the […]
