sexworkerspresent

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Videos made by sex workers from around the world!Sex workers give their perspectives on laws, and policies, show their work in health programmes and share their views and tell their stories. This site is maintained by APNSW for the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, NSWP

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    • Megan McLemore from Human Rights Watch speaks at...

      Recorded December 2, 2011 in Asheville, NC. By North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition.

      • Release date
        Jan 8, 2012
      • Runtime
        15:25
    • Stella Zine sings Sex Workers' Union song

      Recorded at the Sex Worker Summit in Asheville, NC on December 2, 2011. By North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition.

      • Release date
        Dec 31, 2011
      • Runtime
        02:20
    • We Can Do It Ourselves- Sex Workers' HIV Program...

      This video is part of a project of APNSW teaching sex workers to make their own advocacy videos and to document their work. This film is from TOP (Targeted Outreach Project) in Yangon. The TOP Program is a national, community run HIV Program for Female, Male and TG sex workers and MSM in Myanmar/Burma. They have set up 18 centres nationally and 95% of the staff come from the community. Their message is "If we can do it here, then it shows sex workers can do it for ourselves almost anywhere"

      • Release date
        Aug 13, 2011
      • Runtime
        03:39
    • Sex workers present to Global Commission on HIV ...

      APNSW presented on legal issues for sex workers at the Global Commission on HIV and the Law's Regional Dialogue held in Bangkok. This is the presentation made by sex workers from across the region and includes video evidence of the abuses faced by sex workers and the need for reforms. More about eh Commission, its processes and other regional dialogues can be found on the website http://hivlawcommission.org

      • Release date
        Apr 19, 2011
      • Runtime
        10:53
    • Caused by the Refraction

      This film gives an inside look at issues facing sex workers in Myanmar, and tells some of the fascinating story of how sex workers have organised and responded to HIV and to claim their rights.

      • Release date
        Aug 7, 2010
      • Runtime
        16:17
    • Nothing About Us Without Us

      This video and its supplementary documents are designed to spark discussion and create inspiration for looking at the ways that peer-led groups providing support and services to sex workers in their communities can collaborate with harm reduction agencies. The materials were developed by a group of sex workers and allies during the Speak Up! media training, the second annual workshop by Sex Work Awareness in New York City. We were motivated to produce this project because we know that the sex ...

      • Release date
        Aug 2, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:57
    • APNSW Video Work Shop 2010

      In April 2010 APNSW conducted a training workshop for sex workers to learn skills in Video Advocacy. The training was organised by Dale from APNSW and Ryan Schlief from WITNESS. Sex workers from China, Myanmar/Burma and Malaysia came to the week long workshop, which was supported by a grant from OSI. These newly trained film makers made a video action plan for their first film and will be making these films in their country in the next few months with technical support from APNSW.

      • Release date
        May 21, 2010
      • Runtime
        07:45
    • Cambodia Sex Workers marched for their rights

      Recent pronouncements by the Prime Minister in Cambodia that sex work is an affront to traditional Cambodian culture and to the dignity of Cambodian women have led to more raids on bars and arrests of sex workers. See here: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010032534270/National-news/officials-raid-massage-parlour-seize-48-suspected-sex-workers.html Sex Workers are meant to learn "dignified" professions such as sewing to work in garment factories- but garment factory workers are rebellin...

      • Release date
        Mar 26, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:33
    • SANGRAM: Sex Worker Organizing in India

      Based in a rural community in Indias Maharashtra State, SANGRAM works to ensure equal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support: Over 6,000 women in rural India have participated in HIV testing as a result of these efforts. Drawing on 15 years of work to empower marginalized communities to claim their rights, SANGRAM is becoming an increasingly strong advocate nationally, and globally for health policies and programs that are responsive to the real-life needs of local communit...

      • Release date
        Dec 10, 2009
      • Runtime
        05:40
    • Sex Work and Human Rights in Asia-2009

      Interviews from the APNSW Human Rights workshop, 2009 covering the key issues for sex workers' human rights in Asia

      • Release date
        Oct 9, 2009
      • Runtime
        25:00
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