7th Annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

7th Annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Join us for a vigil and community speak out When: Friday, December 17, 2010 at 7:30PM – 9:30PM Where: Metropolitan Community Church of New York, Sanctuary (2nd floor), 446 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10018 btw 9th & 10th Aves. < http://bit.ly/dUenDt > Who: [...]

CALL TO ACTION: UGANDA: Government should break the chains of injustices against sexual minorities and lift decision to ban Sex Workers Human Rights workshop.

20 November 2010 On the 17th of November 2010 the State Minister for Ethics and Integrity Hon Nsaba Buturo called off a conference organized by Akina Mama wa Afrika a Pan African Women’s Non Governmental Organisation based in Kampala, Uganda. He did so by sending a strong worded letter to the Hotel General Manager giving [...]

Update from Sex Worker advocates at UN in Geneva this week

Tomorrow, November 5, 2010, the United States will be reviewed as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. The session can be viewed online as a webcast. The UPR is a relatively new way to address human rights in UN member nations. During the review session, [...]

Anti Sex Worker Rights Candidate Defeated in Rhode Island

At least one candidate supported by the anti sex worker rights organization Citizens Against Trafficking has been defeated. CAT endorsed Amy Rice as one of the candidates supportive of their false effort to allegedly assist and rescue trafficking victims by denying sex worker rights. Amy Rice lost. With 537 of 537 (100%) polls reporting statewide [...]

Donna M. Hughes, Censoring Craigslist, the Street

Donna M. Hughes apparently reads this blog.  Hours after my post on how they allowed their alleged resource for trafficking victims go dark for over a week due to lack of payment, it has been restored.  On the front page they discuss the virtues of censoring Craigslist erotic services section. Donna M. Hughes, Melanie Shapiro [...]

Radical Feminist Anti Trafficking Movement That Cares So Much About Trafficking Victims

Rhode Island based Citizens Against Trafficking the brainchild of Donna Hughes, which worked so hard to criminalize indoor sex work in Rhode Island to save trafficking victims, has let their website go dark over lack of payment, www.citizensagainsttrafficking.org For an organization that proclaimed how much they cared about trafficking victims and proclaimed the value of [...]