Regional Updates COVID-19 Migrant Sex Workers and Sex Worker Responses
COVID-19 and its impact on sex workers in Europe – Netherlands, Germany, Austria, UK, Ireland & Russia, Switzerland & Belgium We are gathering information from all over Europe, but the situation is overwhelming. Please help us by contributing...
Migrant Sex Workers Rights in Light of Coronovirus
Migrant Sex Worker Needs and Rights in Light of COVID-19 As Coronovirus continues to spread at an unprecedented rate across the world, TAMPEP shares in grave concern for all sex workers, particularly those who are migrant and are facing additional pressures with...
Solidarity Message from Red Umbrella Fund Secretariat – Red Umbrella Fund
Solidarity Message from Red Umbrella Fund Secretariat - Red Umbrella FundSolidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective. – Samora Machel In the last few days and weeks and months, the Coronavirus/COVID-19 has spread...
Notes on Coronavirus and Sex Work Part 01
Sex Workers are Advised as a Minimum to Take the Same Precautions as Health Workers Tampep Network Facebook page
BesD Information Sheet for Sex Workers in Light of Coronovirus Outbreak
BesD, The Professional Association for Erotic and Sexual Service Providers, have produced a helpful guide for sex workers in light of the Corona-Virus outbreak. The information is available on the website in German and English Stay safe.
TAMPEP Presents at ‘Wellbeing Economy – A Way to Sustainability in the HIV and AIDS Response’ Seminar, Helsinki
In the Official side event during Finland's Presidency of the Council of the EU, TAMPEP joined other key population networks, advocates and activists in sharing a presentation no the rights and heath of migrant sex workers in Europe. The topic of the Seminar was...
Corona-Virus: What Sexworkers* (and Everyone Else) Should Be Aware of Now – BesD e.V. Berufsverband Sexarbeit
"The risk to the health of the population is currently assessed as “moderate”. In the long term, the corona virus – like the already known flu viruses – will occur worldwide and the individual risk of contracting a serious illness is not high. However, not at...
Posters advocating sex work decriminalisation appear on the London tube
Posters advocating sex work decriminalisation appear on the London tubeThe adhacking campaign precedes a protest to call for the normalisation of sex work and point out the dangers of outlawing it Tampep Network Facebook page
TAMPEP Steering Committee Elections Open!! Deadline 20th March 2020 to Self Nominate
TAMPEP Call for Self-Nominations to the Steering Committee Calling all sex workers’ rights activists with the desire to be part of a growing strategy to support migrant sex workers’ rights across Europe. Do you wish to be part of a sex worker-led committee that steers...
Sex Worker Activism on International Women’s Day 2020
Calling all sex worker-led groups, what are you doing to mark International Women's Day 8th March 2020? Does the Women's movements in your country include our calls as sex workers for human rights, labour rights and decriminalisation? Is the International Women's Day...
Thank you for writing this Thierry Schaffauser Another life lost at the interse…
Thank you for writing this Thierry Schaffauser Another life lost at the intersection of harmful laws, stigma and state condoned and perpetuated violence. Devastating news from France again where their Swedish-informed legal framework, purported to “protect” is...
Introducing 2nd time grantee Tampep Network which focuses exclusively on advocac…
Introducing 2nd time grantee Tampep Network which focuses exclusively on advocacy and networking. TAMPEP’ aim is leveraging the network alliances and long legacy to make the migrant sex work community voices heard by documenting their stories, needs and good...
Congratualtions to PROUD Dutch Union for Sex Workers on their 5th Anniversary | TAMPEP
https://tampep.eu/congratualtions-to-proud-dutch-union-for…/ Felicitations to PROUD, the Dutch Union for Sex Workers celebrating their Fifth Anniversary on 15th February 2020, named by sex workers’ rights activists as ‘The Day of Paid Love’ The 15th February is named...
Congratualtions to PROUD Dutch Union for Sex Workers on their 5th Anniversary
Felicitations to PROUD, the Dutch Union for Sex Workers celebrating their Fifth Anniversary on 15th February 2020, named by sex workers' rights activists as 'The Day of Paid Love' The 15th February is named the 'Day of Paid Love' as an anti-stigma and advocacy...
TAMPEP Call for Membership of Sex Worker Led Groups | TAMPEP
Are you a sex worker-led organisation, group or network? Do you sign up to TAMPEP’s core values? Do you want to be part of a growing movement for the promotion and protection of the rights of migrant sex workers? Join us to have your vote in the upcoming TAMPEP...
TAMPEP Call for Membership of Sex Worker Led Groups
Are you a sex worker-led organisation, group or network? Do you sign up to TAMPEP's core values? Do you want to be part of a growing movement for the promotion and protection of the rights of migrant sex workers? We have an exciting year ahead in TAMPEP, expanding our...
Decriminalise sex work to prevent trafficking and abuse
It's Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the US and Beyond Trafficking and Slavery has launched a new series where sex workers and allies share arguments that work or don't work in advocating for the decriminalisation of sex work. We have sent in a piece too,...
TAMPEP Launches Newsletter 2019 to Mark International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
The International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers | IDEVASW On the 17th of December each year, sex workers and our allies come together to commemorate the lives of sex workers lost at the intersection of unjust laws, repressive practices and deeply engrained...
Call for Support and Solidarity to Sex Workers in Opposing Dutch Law Reform Proposals
Calling for support in opposition to proposed reforms to Dutch Laws that will harm sex workers, particularly migrant sex workers. ***Deadline 15th December 2019*** All info about the law proposal and submission call (English, French, Dutch and Spanish) are at...
Sex Workers Tell Us What Support They Actually Need From Politicians
SWP and many of our comrades are quoted in this well done article by Bustle.com Sex Workers Tell Us What Support They Actually Need From PoliticiansTamika Spellman has been a sex worker since she was 15, after she had her first child. "You can't tell me that...
Demonstrators protest against the sex purchase prohibition in Hamburg | TAMPEP
https://tampep.eu/demonstrators-protest-against-the-sex-purchase-prohibition-in-hamburg/ Demonstrators protest against the sex purchase prohibition in Hamburg | TAMPEPDemonstrators protest against the sex purchase prohibition in Hamburg Nov 28, 2019 | News, Tampep...
Demonstrators protest against the sex purchase prohibition in Hamburg
On Monday’s, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, demonstrators took to the streets to protest in front of the Hamburg City Hall against the criminalisation of prostitution. The law on Prostitution – Prostitutes’ Protection Law...
Germany Contemplates Adoption of the Repressive Swedish Model Despite Evidence of Grave Harms to Sex Workers
On November 7th 2019 a symposium took place at the Hamburg State Representation in Berlin, under the title ‘Sex work and human trafficking between regulation and abolitionism – from the perspective of the ProstSchG (the new German law on Prostitution) and the Nordic...
Lyon : le corps retrouvé ligoté dans le Rhône était celui d’une escort girl
Horrific news of a fifth worker murdered in France since the introduction of the legal framework which criminalises the purchase of sex. In reality this model is pushing workers into dangerous settings and predatory people who are committing increasing levels of...
Exciting news congratulations
Exciting news congratulations ☂️🙌🏻 Tampep Network Facebook page
Christina Boidi, one of the Founding Members of TAMPEP, is awarded the Käthe Leichter prize
Congratulations to Cristina Boidi, one of TAMPEP's founders who was awarded the Käthe Leichter prize 2019 in Austria, for her work at Lefö with migrant women, which includes migrant sex workers. This is a national prize, given by Austrian Ministries to women that...
TAMPEP Joins Sex Workers and our Networks in The European Parliament on 15th October 2019
TAMPEP Joins Sex Workers and our Networks in The European Parliament on 15th October 2019 At the invitation of MEP Sophie in 't Veld (D66), there will be an exhibition and a round table discussion about sex work in the European Parliament this week. The exhibition...
Congratulations on the Inauguration of UTSOPI, The Union for Sex Workers in Belgium
- INAUGURATION UTSOPI - 11 Octobre 2019 Congratulations to UTOPSI, The Union for Sex Workers in Belgium in their official inauguration today. More information about the event to mark such a celebration is included included in the UTOPSI post and programme below and on...
Massive Success by Sex Workers from all over Europe to Mark 20 years of the Swedish Model Failing Sex Workers
Marking 20 years of the Sexköpslagen, the Swedish 'model' that brought in legislation that criminalises the purchase of sex, sex workers and allies from Europe and beyond gathered in Stockholm, Sweden for three days of sex workers-only events, a large protest and an...
Comunicado Paloma
TAMPEP joins sex workers globally in mourning the tragic murder of Paloma, a 38 year old trans woman, a Brazilian migrant, sex worker. Sex worker-led group OTRAS have released this statement [Spanish text] outlining the reality of a series of harmful policies based...
TAMPEP, the European Network for the Promotion of Rights and Health among Migrant Sex Workers, welcomes sex worker-led groups and allied organisations to join its network.
Please complete the application form by clicking: Tampep membership application