The International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) is a sex worker-led network representing 70 organisations led by or working with sex workers in Europe and Central Asia, as well as 150 individuals including sex workers, academics, trade unionists, human rights advocates, women’s rights activists, and LGBT rights activists.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMissed opportunities and exclusion: sex workers reflect on two decades of anti-trafficking
The Palermo Protocol has targeted sex workers since day one, and whenever sex workers having spoken up against it...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCOVID-19 shines a red light on sex workers’ lack of protection in Europe
European governments look the other way when we ask them how they will help sex workers survive the coming weeks and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat we talk about when we talk about trafficking
Being a feminist anti-trafficking organisation means being against a lot of what passes for ‘anti-trafficking’ these days.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘Send them back’: migrant sex workers deported from Europe
Anti-trafficking policies claim to support vulnerable women, however their implementation leads to imprisonment and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe two-fronted fight of sex workers against trafficking
Sex workers are caught between exploitation in the industry and the misguided policies designed to help them.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRights not rescue for migrant sex workers
The criminalisation of clients does nothing to protect sex workers from police harassment, border guards, racism,...