Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of sex worker organizations" in English language version.
The ACLU has supported decriminalizing sex work since 1973, and it became an official board policy in 1975. Since then, affiliates across the country have advocated for decriminalization at the state level by striking down laws restricting sex workers' rights, such as condoms-as-evidence laws.
Decriminalization continues to be at the heart of many sex worker rights organizations.
Sex workers' organisations have been campaigning against neo-abolitionist policies and the criminalisation of commercial sex as detrimental to their lives and working conditions, and advocate for the complete decriminalisation of prostitution (see Plate 12.2) (Macioti and Garofalo Geymonat 2016).
Sex workers' organizations and their allies favor decriminalization of prostitution because of the harms that stigmatization, discrimination, and criminalization bring to sex workers' lives and work.
There are some who support Nevada's legal prostitution industry in specific and the legalization or decriminalization of prostitution in general, such as the sex workers rights' organizations, COYOTO (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) and PONY (Prostitutes of New York). (...) There appears to be stronger support among prostitutes' rights groups and many self-employed sex workers for decriminalization than legalization of prostitution, as "legalization is understood to mean decriminalization accompanied by strict municipal regulation of prostitution."
The central and uniting demand of the sex worker rights movement around the world is the decriminalization of consensual adult sex work. (...) Sex worker rights activists and their allies are united on the need for decriminalization of prostitution-related activities.
A human rights based approach also means that consensual sexual relations between adults for remuneration should not be criminalised. (...) Consensual adult sex work should not be conflated with violence against women or trafficking in human beings; (...) the decriminalisation of sex work does not mean the removal of laws that criminalise exploitation, human trafficking or violence against sex workers. On the contrary, these laws must remain, and should be strengthened.
The logic of Toonen and Goodwin informs two recent foci of Human Rights Watch's privacy-related work: our call for decriminalizing simple drug use and possession (see the essay The Human Rights Case for Drug Reform in this volume), and our push for decriminalizing voluntary sex work by adults.
This Series of seven papers aims to investigate the complex issues faced by sex workers worldwide, and calls for the decriminilisation of sex work, in the global effort to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Criminal laws and other punitive regulations have imposed custodial sentences on women involved in prostitution/sex work in a manner that has been shown to harm rather than protect them. The Working Group considers that the criminalization of women in prostitution/sex work places them in a situation of injustice, vulnerability and stigma and is contrary to international human rights law. (...) The Working Group recommends that States: (...) Decriminalize sexual and reproductive behaviours that are attributed exclusively or mainly to women, including adultery and prostitution (...)
The WHO, in partnership with UNFPA, UNAIDS, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, developed new guidelines following consultations with a wide range of stakeholders, including national programme managers, researchers, sex workers' representatives, international organizations, and development partners. (...) The new WHO guidelines recommend that countries work towards decriminalization of sex work, and urge countries to improve sex workers' access to health services.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)The WHO, in partnership with UNFPA, UNAIDS, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, developed new guidelines following consultations with a wide range of stakeholders, including national programme managers, researchers, sex workers' representatives, international organizations, and development partners. (...) The new WHO guidelines recommend that countries work towards decriminalization of sex work, and urge countries to improve sex workers' access to health services.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Principle 17: Sex work. The exchange of sexual services between consenting adults for money, goods or services and communication with another about, advertising an offer for, or sharing premises with another for the purpose of exchanging sexual services between consenting adults for money, goods or services, whether in a public or private place, may not be criminalized, absent coercion, force, abuse of authority or fraud. Criminal law may not proscribe the conduct of third parties who, directly or indirectly, for receipt of a financial or material benefit, under fair conditions – without coercion, force, abuse of authority or fraud – facilitate, manage, organize, communicate with another, advertise, provide information about, provide or rent premises for the purpose of the exchange of sexual services between consenting adults for money, goods or services.