FIELD REPORT: The exclusion of SW in the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
Thank you PION Norway and Pro Sentret for sharing this great field report about "The exclusion of persons who sell sexual services in the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic"! They put together a collection of information about the authorities' responses, their effects...
Sex workers in the Netherlands at the forefront of ensuring limit of coronavirus in the sex industry
Despite other contact professions opening already in the Netherlands, discrimination and arbitrary interventions have delayed reopening of the sex industry. To advocate for fair treatment of sex work, SekswerkExpertise, a platform that stands for improving the...
Sex Workers and Allies all over Brazil organise Virtual Forum on PutaDei2020
On June 2nd - International Whores' Day - a virtual discussion forum took place at 4 p.m. local time with the participation of sex workers and allies of the whores’ movement in Brazil from the states of Alagoas, Amazonas, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba,...
International Whores Day 2020
This day has shattered the world with news thought unthinkable. Racism, rising fascism and scenes that made us feel sick to the pit of our stomachs have flooded our timelines. It is #IWD2020 #InternationalWhoresDay our worldwide community is deeply shaken by...
Sex Workers appeal to german Hiphop-band Antilopen Gang to respect and value rights of Sex Workers and Urge Support from Allies
German mainstream feminism is often anti-sex-work and even more often racist Activist Ruby runs public campaign and petition for high profile artists to respect and value sex workers rights. "I am running a campaign to show how artists unwillingly partner up with...
TAMPEP Submits Comments & Recommendations to CEDAW Draft Recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration
TAMPEP has joined sex worker-led groups globally in submitting the following comments and recommendations in response to the draft General recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration prepared for Committee on the Elimination of...
TAMPEP Welcomes New Steering Committee Members & Expresses Thanks to All Nominees
TAMPEP would like to thank all persons who self-nominated to take a seat in the Steering Committee and their support organisations who took the time to write letters of endorsement. Further, we would like to thank all TAMPEP sex worker-led members who voted in this...
Italian campaign for the emergency fund page of “No-one left behind! COVID19-Solidarity with the sex workers most affected by the Covid19 emergency
We believe it is fundamental to help now, immediately, sex workers who are most in need. Launch of Italian Sex Worker Emergency Fund Pia Covre and Carla Corso, the historical leaders of the movement for the rights of prostitutes in Italy, inform about the...
Sex Worker Action During COVID-19 Italy | Comitato launch a call to the Italian Government
Comitato per I Diritti Civili delle Prostitute and Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti "In these days we are witnessing the extraordinary health emergency that requires our country - and the entire planet - to adopt extraordinary measures to counter the spread of...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
OTRAS Statement on the murder of Paloma as a result of increased repression of trans and migrant sex workers in Spain
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 participates at the EUROPACH closing ceremony – Berlin 12-14 September 2019
'Living Politics: Remembering HIV/AIDS Activism Tomorrow' The EUROPACH Closing Ceremony As a participant at the launch of EUROPACH, TAMPEP is getting a glimpse into the outcomes of the EUROPACH project which studied HIV/AIDS politics and activism in Germany, the...
Statement of the BesD, the Professional Association for Erotic and Sexual Service Providers in Germany on the sex purchase prohibition proposal in Germany
Statement of the BesD, the Professional Association for Erotic and Sexual Service Providers in Germany (Bundesverband erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V.) on the sex purchase prohibition proposal in Germany: The punishment of clients endangers the...
TAMPEP Presents Workshop on Migrant Sex Workers and the Anti Trafficking Paradigm at 2019 Hurenkongress, Berlin
TAMPEP joins hundreds of sex workers at the 2019 Hurenkongress, Berlin August 2019. Press Release from organising group BesD below: A safe space for exchanging experiences and learning from each other First two days of Congress are strictly sex worker only –...
TAMPEP Statement on The World Day to End Trafficking in Persons
"On this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, let us, as migrant sex workers and our allies, reaffirm our commitment to end labour exploitation, create safe migration routes, and truly protect victims of trafficking, including their right to remain in a country...