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The struggle for sex workers’ rights intersects with many other social movements. Contrary to the monolithic abolitionist discourse, which portrays all sex workers as ‘prostituted women’ without agency, the sex worker community is diverse and resilient. Sex workers are male, female and non-binary, LGBTQ, migrants and non-migrant workers. Supporting sex workers’ rights means understanding the diversity and complexity of their lives and involving sex workers from diverse communities in decision-making, policy-making and debates.
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) published a report on 10 years of sex workers' rights activism and advocacy in Europe and Central Asia and launched it on 30 November 2015 at the European Parliament in front of an audience of sex workers, members of the European Parliament, European Commission representatives, and civil society groups.
