[Poster for the «Sex Workers Take Back Their Power in a Time of Crisis» at the UN. Details in post.]

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«Sex Workers Take Back Their Power in a Time of Crisis»

🗓 Tuesday 17th March 2026
🇺🇸🏙️ New York 🕡 18:30–20:30 EST
📍 Church Center for the United Nations
(777 United Nations Plaza)
👥 SWDC, NSWP, Red Umbrella Fund, AWAC, My Sistah's House, Global […]

[Original post on kolektiva.social]

«Sex Workers Take Back Their Power in a Time of Crisis» Tuesday, 17 March, 6:30 - 8:00 pm EST. Church Center for the United Nations, 11th Floor. Moderators: Sienna Baskin (Sex Work Donor Collaborative). Speakers: Kyomya Macklean (AWAC Uganda), Naumy Mbareeba (WONETHA Ugana), KAyla Gora (My Sistah's House USA), Ankit Gupta (Global FUnd for Women), C.J. Davison (Third Wave Fund). [logos: Red Umbrella Fund, SWDC, NSWP.] Register for the full conference: [link in post.]

#SexWork #UN #SWDC @awacuganda #WONETHA @globalfundwomen @thirdwavefund @redumbrellafund #NSWP

Link in image: https://ngocsw70.events.whova.com

[logo: ASWA] [Live streaming Webinar] «International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers» Theme: Decriminalization Now 17th December2025 | 2pm EAT • Grace Kamau, ASWA, Moderator • Jules Kim, NSWP, Speaker • Michaela Clayton, ARASA, Speaker • Daughtie Amarula, AKPEG, Speaker [QR code, link in post] End Violence. End Stigma. Decriminalize Now. Have any drink of your choice aside as we celebrate together.

🗓️ #December2025 #Events 🧵
🌍 #Africa 🌐 #Online (Zoom)
👠 #SexWork 🏷️ #D17 #IDEVASW
👥 #ASWA #NSWP #ARASA #AKPEG

«Commemorating the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers: Decriminalization Now»
🗓️ Wednesday 17th
🕑 14:00 EAT / 🕚 11:00 UTC
✍️ Registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

[Photograph from KNESWO's «Refugee Speak Out Project» launch, on the June 20th 2025.]

👥 #NSWP 🗓️ #December2025 📰 #Newsletter 🏷️ #SexWorkDigest 🧵 (7/7)

🇰🇪 #Kenya 👥 #KNESWO
An introduction to @kneswo.bsky.social~
📰 www.nswp.org/featured/kne...

👥 #NSWP 🗓️ #December2025 📰 #Newsletter 🏷️ #SexWorkDigest 🧵 (6/7)

🏷️ #SexWorkerPrideDay
[See quote. :3]

👥 #NSWP 🗓️ #December2025 📰 #Newsletter 🏷️ #SexWorkDigest 🧵 (5/7)

A brief article from 👥 #LMEC:
📰 www.nswp.org/news/lady-me...

👥 #NSWP 🗓️ #December2025 📰 #Newsletter 🏷️ #SexWorkDigest 🧵 (4/7)

🎗️ #HIV #AIDS 🏷️ #WorldAIDSDay
[See quote. :3]

👥 #NSWP 🗓️ #December2025 📰 #Newsletter 🏷️ #SexWorkDigest 🧵 (3/7)

🏷️ #CSW69
[See quote. :3]

[Cover of SWASH's «STOP! the Nordic Model» booklet. On the center there is an illustration of somebody holding a red umbrella; the title flows around this. On the bottom right, SWASH's logo.]

👥 #NSWP 🗓️ #December2025 📰 #Newsletter 🏷️ #SexWorkDigest 🧵 (2/7)
👥 #SWASH (@swash-jp.bsky.social)

On the bookley «STOP! the Nordic Model»
📰 www.nswp.org/news/swash-j...

AFAIK, it's only available in Japan (… and in Japanese, ofc).
Nevertheless, it good to hear of initiatives like this. ^^ ❤️

Global Fund E-Learning NSWP's e-learning site provides courses to help sex workers, sex worker-led organisations, and allies understand and actively engage with the Global Fund's mechanisms. 🌐 elearning.nswp.org [logo: NSWP]

👥 #NSWP 🗓️ #December2025 📰 #Newsletter 🏷️ #SexWorkDigest 🧵 (1/7)
🏫 #Education 🌐 #Online

A note that NSWP now provides am ‘e-learning’ platform~ 💖
🌐 elearning.nswp.org 👈
📰 www.nswp.org/what-we-do/e...

At the moment it only contains a tiny series on the Global Fund, but it's a start. ^^

👥 #NSWP 🗓️ #December2025 📰 #Newsletter 🏷️ #SexWorkDigest 🧵 (0/7)

The last digest is public~ 💕
🗓️ August–November 2025
You can take a look (this one is short) at:
📰 mailchi.mp/830a276612ef...

Or look through this thread; as you prefer. ;3

(On quote, the previous one ^^)

[logo, extended: NSWP] Policy Brief Sex Worker-Led Organisations and the Susteinability of the HIV Response [Illustration of a lot of red umbrellas through the bottom of the image.]

🎗️ #WorldAIDSDay 🧵~
📄 #Reports 🗓️ #November2025
👥 #NSWP 🎗️ #HIV #AIDS 👠 #SexWork

«Sex Worker-Led Organisations and the Sustainability of the HIV Response»
🌐 www.nswp.org/resource/nsw...
📄 www.nswp.org/sites/defaul...

NSWP published this a few days ago.
Can´t think of a better way to wrap this up~

www.nswp.org/who-we-are

I love their work, but somebody should tell the NSWP it's not cool to say "male, female, and transgender sex workers". Most trans people are not a secret third thing.

#SexWorkIsWork #NSWP

🌐 #Online #Events 🗓️ #October2025

🗺️👠👥 #NSWP
🗺️🏥👥 #IPPF (@ippf.bsky.social — thanks so very much~! 💗)
🌏👠👥 #APNSW
🇹🇭🏥👥 #PPAT
🇹🇭👠👥 #SWING
🇮🇩🏥👥 #PKBI
🇮🇩👠👥 #OPSI
🇱🇰🏥👥 #FPASL
🇱🇰🏳️‍⚧️👥 #TETSL
🌎👠👥 #PLAPERTS
🌎👠👥 #RedTraSex
🇨🇴🏥👥 #Profamilia
🇵🇾👠👥 #UNESpy

🌎 #LAC 📼 #Recordings 🗓️ #September2025

«Trabajo sexual más allá de las fronteras»
📼 youtu.be/VQ4qZV16FSg
👤 Lucy Esquivel (👥 #RedTraSex)
👤 Eugenia López Úribe (👥 #IPPF_ACRO)
👤 Samantha Carillo (👥 #RedTraSex)
👤 Jules Kim (👥 #NSWP)
👤 Grace Kamau (👥 #ASWA)

Grabación del webinario del Jueves 11. ❤️

[A photograph of a manifestation of the ECP collective. They're holding up some orange umbrellas, a couple of large banners, and a multitude of written cardboards; most people are raising a fists as well.]

[Photograph of KNESWO members posing and raising their hands.]

[Photograph an AWA booth; a couple of people a checking it out. There are banner hanging at both sides; one promoting sex work decriminalization, and the other HIV prevention.]

[Photograph of New Moon Network members posing in an elegant root; a couple of them are holding up red umbrellas.]

🗓️ #September2025 👠🎉 #SexWorkerPrideDay 🧵 thread.
👥 #NSWP 📰 #News

Highlights by the NSWP itself~ ❤️
📰 www.nswp.org/news/sex-wor...

Mentioned collectives:
🇬🇧 #UK 👥 #ECP
🇰🇪 #Kenya 👥 #KNESWO (@kneswo.bsky.social)
🇿🇼 #Zimbabwe 👥 #AWA
🇺🇸 #USA 👥 #NewMoonNetwork (@newmoonnetwork.bskyverified.social)

[Cover of the «Solidarity is NOT a Crime» report, about the Sex Worker Freedom Festival in Kolkata, India, 2012. It includes a photo of manifestation, another speaking to a microphone, and a third of someone making a ✌️ gesture while holding (what is likely to be) an umbrella.]

📄 #Reports 🗓️ #October2012
«Solidarity is not a crime: Sex work Freedom Festival 2012 in Kolkata, India»
👥 #NSWP
📄 www.nswp.org/sites/defaul...

[logo: NSWP] «Centring Sex Workers' Rights in Gender Equality: Lessons from the Beijing+30 Review and CSW69» [Illustration of a red umbrella.] [🌐 https://www.nswp.org/resource/nswp-global-and-regional-reports/centring-sex-workers-rights-gender-equality-lessons-the] [📄 https://www.nswp.org/sites/default/files/csw69_en.pdf]

📄 #Reports 🗓️ #August2025 👥 #NSWP

«Centring Sex Workers' Rights in Gender Equality: Lessons from the Beijing+30 Review and CSW69»
🌐 www.nswp.org/resource/nsw...
📄 www.nswp.org/sites/defaul...

Read more about the delegation's activities and view the statements that were made to the different Interactive Dialogues on NSWP's page dedicated to HRC 59. 🌐 https://www.nswp.org/what-we-do/conferences/hrc-59 ----- The African Sex Worker Alliance (ASWA) Share Powerful Stories of the Impact of U.S. Foreign Aid Freeze 🌐 https://www.nswp.org/news/the-african-sex-worker-alliance-aswa-share-powerful-stories-the-impact-us-foreign-aid-freeze ----- Sex workers demand accountability from Meta: Our community stands up against digital discrimination 🌐 https://www.nswp.org/news/sex-workers-demand-accountability-meta-our-community-stands-against-digital-discrimination ----- Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs: A Protest for Sex Worker Rights at HRC 59 🌐 https://www.nswp.org/news/only-rights-can-stop-the-wrongs-protest-sex-worker-rights-hrc-59 ----- It’s time to decriminalise sex work – a new law and a new age for sex workers in Thailand 🌐 https://www.nswp.org/news/its-time-decriminalise-sex-work-new-law-and-new-age-sex-workers-thailand ----- ESWA Launches Campaign Challenging Meta’s Discrimination Against Sex Workers 🌐 https://www.nswp.org/news/eswa-launches-campaign-challenging-metas-discrimination-against-sex-workers

Policy Brief From Resistance to Reform: Sex Worker-Led Legal Reform Initiatives [A row of illustrations of red umbrellas underlines the image.] [Description follows, not in image.] The sex worker rights movement faces growing challenges, from the rise of anti-rights movements to the shrinking pool of funding for sex worker-led organisations. These shifts have threatened the movement’s sustainability and fostered a more hostile environment for advocacy. Yet, sex worker-led organisations continue to resist, challenging harmful laws and carving out new paths for legal reform. This paper highlights recent examples of sex worker-led resistance and progress in legal reform, gathered through key informant interviews and a global e-consultation with NSWP members. It recognises that success is not limited to achieving decriminalisation, but also encompasses a range of milestones along the way – from legal empowerment initiatives to strategic litigation. Drawing on members’ firsthand experiences, this paper also explores strategies, challenges, and lessons learned from sex worker-led organisations pushing for change. 🌐 https://www.nswp.org/resource/nswp-policy-briefs/policy-brief-resistance-reform-sex-worker-led-legal-reform-initiatives

Strenghtening Key Populations' Role in Global Health Initiatives: Making communities at the centre a reality for all [logo: NSWP] [logo: MPACT] [logo: INPUD] [logo: GATE] [Description follows, not in the image.] The four global key population-led networks [above] were provided with funding by the Global Fund Political & Civil Society Advocacy Team in the External Relations and Communications Department to develop a comprehensive position paper, in consultation with their members, on key population communities at the centre of the global HIV response. This position paper outlines the critical role that key population communities and organisations led by them can play when their needs are centered in global health strategies. It involves a comprehensive literature review of important documents that support centering community needs, services and voices in the HIV response, as well as interviews with key stakeholders from every region in the world. Rooted in the lived experiences of key population communities, this position paper identifies common issues impacting all four key population communities’ health outcomes and their ability to organize. It concludes with recommendations for the Global Fund, other multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors, philanthropic funders, and national and local governments regarding policy, funding, and programmatic elements necessary to end the HIV pandemic. Implementing and adopting the key population community recommendations is essential to ensuring that key population communities and organisations led by them are genuinely centered within an effective, optimal and sustainable HIV response and other global health initiatives. 🌐 https://www.nswp.org/resource/nswp-publications/strengthening-key-populations-role-global-health-making-communities-the

[logo: INPUD] [logo: NSWP] [logo: GATE] [logo: MPACT] We Insist! Non-Negotiables for and by Key Populations in the Reprioritisation and Revision of Global Fund Programmes in Grant Cycle 7 June 2025 [Description follows; not in the image.] On Friday, 30 May 2025, INPUD, GATE, NSWP, and MPact, in partnership with GBGMC, hosted a global webinar to share urgent updates on the Global Fund’s reprioritisation and grant revision process. This process, which is currently underway at the country level, is aimed at reprogramming and scaling back Grant Cycle 6 and 7 (GC6 and GC7) grants in response to the growing global financial crisis affecting health and development funding. As outlined in the Global Fund’s official guidance (released on 6 June), Principal Recipients (PRs) and Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) will receive revised country funding envelopes by the end of June, reflecting reduced funding allocations. In early July, PRs, CCMs, and in-country partners, including key population-led organisations, must urgently consult and agree on how best to safeguard access to lifesaving HIV, TB, and malaria services using the remaining GC7 funds. During the global webinar, nearly 200 civil society and community allies identified essential, non-negotiable priorities for key populations to ensure continuity of services. These inputs were further informed by 60 community survey responses from 31 countries. The resulting Red Lines Document summarises these shared priorities, what must be protected and can be adapted to your national context. 🌐 https://www.nswp.org/resource/nswp-publications/we-insist-non-negotiables-and-key-populations-the-reprioritisation-and

📰 #News 🗓️ #July2025 👥 #NSWP

«NSWP's Sex Work Digest»
Highlights from April–July 2025.
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