Ohio Anti-Trafficking Operation Harms Sex Workers
The Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center condemns the arrest and detainment of sex workers, including individuals potentially experiencing trafficking, as part of Operation Autumn Hope.
Kamala Harris is our new VP, and that holds different meanings for people
Daily Kos
“The victim narrative and rescue mentality that most Democrats take around sex work is not helpful,” said RJ Thompson, a human rights lawyer, longtime sex worker, and director of the Sex Workers Project. “We do not need to be rescued, we need our human rights protected.”EARN IT
Our Campaigns The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies or EARN IT Act (S. 3398) is a US Federal bill with the alleged goal to identify and remove child sexual abuse materials online. [...]
SWP Receives Historic $1.2M Grant from the Sex Work Rights Fund
SWRF has made a generous donation of $1.2 million to SWP to significantly increase SWP’s capacity, size, scope, and impact. With this gift, SWP is able to hire a Director of Communications, Director of Development, Director of Research, Organizing, and Advocacy, and an Associate Director for State and Local Campaigns, as well as locally based organizing consultants. While continuing to focus on legislative efforts in New York, SWP will also focus on building a statewide campaign in Oregon to decriminalize and destigmatize sex work, partnering with SWR and other national, statewide, and local human rights organizations through 2020 and beyond.
Call off your old, tired ethics
The Minnesota Daily
Testimonies from New York to Los Angeles tell the same story: officers aren’t above privacy violations, enforced acts of public nudity and inappropriate physical contact. The Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center in New York City found that 17% of sex workers had been sexually harassed, abused or even raped by police officers.
Harper Zacharias [New York, NY]
Director of Development
Zola Z. Bruce MSSW (New York, NY)
Director of Communications
Mariah Grant (Washington, D.C)
Director of Research, Organizing and Advocacy
Associate Director of State and Local Campaigns
Full time Director of Development for the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center - New York, NY
The Oldest Profession Screening – 7pm 8/14
Join us at 7pm on 8/14 for a screening of “The Oldest Profession,” with Q&A featuring our staff afterwards. For more information, follow @OldestProfession2020 or visit https://linktr.ee/theoldestprofession.
