1100 organizations and individuals ask Amnesty International to support decriminalization of sex work
The International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE), Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (SWAN), Human Rights Watch, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), La Strada International, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), and Transgender Europe are amongst the 243 organisations signatories of a letter to Amnesty International's Board of Directors urging them to show courage and support the draft policy on decriminalisation of sex work.
More than 800 individuals including hundreds of sex workers and expert researchers on sex work and human rights have also signed the letter.