Handbook Helps Navigate Non-Prosecution Policies for Sex Work
Yale News
The Yale Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) and the Sex Workers Project (SWP) of the Urban Justice Center have jointly released a handbook on district attorneys’ policies of non-prosecution of sex work-related charges. The handbook supports advocates for sex worker rights, prosecutors, policy makers, and other stakeholders to develop, influence, track, and assess the operation and impact of district attorney non-prosecution policies.The criminalization of the sex trades in Manhattan
This factsheet provides an overview of trends in the criminalization of the sex trades in the borough of Manhattan, New York City (Lenapehoking) over 16 years.
The criminalization of the sex trades in Queens
This factsheet provides an overview of trends in the criminalization of the sex trades in the borough of Queens, New York City (Lenapehoking) over 16 years.
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PC Gamer
"Speaking to Motherboard, an expert on the subject from The Sex Workers Project [of the Urban Justice Center] said that travelers are increasingly being interrogated at borders under suspicion of "prostitution" due to their online presence. Hex said on her now-private Twitter account that she didn't bring up her Fansly page in her visa application; it was something the US discovered itself."OnlyFans girl denied entry into US for “prostitution”
The Bright
“When sex workers have criminal convictions under laws that criminalize sex work, we regularly see that those people may encounter intense questioning by immigration authorities to see if there exists grounds to deny them entry. But even when people DON’T have criminal convictions related to sex work, they may be subject to similar scrutiny," [said Clement Lee of UJC's Sex Worker Project]."VRChat Sex Worker Denied Entry To US Over ‘Prostitution’
Kotaku
"Clement Lee, the Associate Director of Immigration Legal Services at the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Workers Project, told Motherboard that the U.S. denying sex workers access to the country is a pretty common occurrence. And while Hex doesn’t technically meet the legal definition for prostitution found in U.S. immigration laws, that sadly doesn’t really matter."Thailand Is a Global Capital of (Illegal) Sex Work
Foreign Policy
"The Sex Workers Project, an advocacy organization based in New York, found that sex workers globally face a 45 percent to 75 percent chance of experiencing violence on the job. Transgender women such as Anna face an added layer of danger from clients who turn violent after discovering their identities."VR-Y BAD! Virtual reality sex worker says she was ‘denied entry to US permanently’ for digital ‘prostitution’
The U.S. Sun
"And in the United States, that's just one of the many things Immigration looks for to deny visas – this is known as '"inadmissibility." This is a legal concept that "constitutes a broad array of immigration violations that can cover anything from polygamy to substance abuse to what immigration calls ‘engaging in prostitution,'" Clement Lee, the associate director of Immigration Legal Services at the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Workers Project, told Motherboard."A Virtual Reality Sex Worker Was Denied Entry to the U.S. for ‘Prostitution’
Vice
"Clement Lee, the Associate Director of Immigration Legal Services at the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Workers Project, told Motherboard that sex workers confronting barriers to travel and obtaining visas is 'all too commonplace.'"
