FACTSHEET: SEX WORK AND MIGRATION
Migrant sex workers face many challenges, including xenophobia from local sex workers and health and social service providers, language and cultural barriers, and restrictive migration laws and enforcement. Click here to check out all the factsheets produced in the Counting Sex Workers In! Campaign.
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. Click here to check out all the factsheets produced in the Counting Sex Workers In! […]
FACTSHEET: SEX WORK VERSUS ‘SEX TRAFFICKING’ AND UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE
There is a common misconception that all sex workers are victims of trafficking or exploitation. Worldwide, sex workers and sex workers’ rights advocates challenge this misconception. Click here to check out all the factsheets produced in the Counting Sex Workers In! Campaign.
FACTSHEET: FUNDING FOR SEX WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Sex workers in communities around the world are organising to end exploitation and violence, to access appropriate and respectful health care, and build movements for lasting change. However, due to criminalisation, discrimination and stigma, few institutions are willing to fund the fight for sex workers’ rights. Click here to check out all the factsheets produced in […]
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 […]
State violence against human rights defenders, journalists and feminists in Nicaragua
The Count Me In! (CMI!) consortium, made up of Mama Cash, including the Red Umbrella Fund, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Just Associates (JASS), CREA and Urgent Action-Africa (UAF-Africa) along with her sister funds in the United States (UAF) and Latin America (UAF-LAC), expresses its deep concern regarding the escalation of violence against human rights defenders, journalists, feminists, social movements and civil society organizations […]
Count Me In! report: Realising Women’s Rights
Change is invariably catalysed by those who experience injustice and know what needs to change. Women’s rights organisations and women human rights defenders are the drivers of social, economic and political change. Yet women’s rights organisations are severely underfunded: only 1% of gender equality funding from international institutions and governments goes to autonomous groups led by […]
