Statement Of Interest Of Amicus Curiae, The Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center (SWP of UJC) is a national advocacy and policy organization. In collaboration with impacted communities, SWP of UJC seeks to destigmatize and decriminalize adult consensual sex work while preventing exploitation, including human trafficking, in the sex trades.
New Orleans, LA May 16, 2023- The Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center, with the University of Maryland School of Law’s Federal Appellate Immigration Clinic as counsel, has filed an amicus brief with the United States’ Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit asking the court to vacate the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that solicitation of prostitution categorically involves moral turpitude.
This handbook, by the Global Health Justice Partnership of the Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health, with the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center, seeks to support sex worker rights advocates, prosecutors, policymakers and other stakeholders in understanding, influencing, tracking, and assessing the operation and impact of non-prosecution policies that include charges related to sex work, as adopted by District Attorneys in the United States.
The Yale Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) and the Sex Workers Project (SWP) of the Urban Justice Center have released a joint handbook focused on District Attorneys (DA)’s policies of non-prosecution of sex work-related charges.
This resource is a Community Guide to Exercising Discretion: A Handbook for Advocates and District Attorneys Navigating the Possibilities and Impacts of Non-Prosecution Policies in the Context of Sex Work Criminalization. The Community Guide provides an overview of the main takeaways of the Handbook.
This factsheet provides an overview of trends in the criminalization of the sex trades in the borough of the Bronx, NYC (Lenapehoking) over 16 years.
The Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center (SWP) spearheaded the effort to highlight the devastating impacts of SESTA/FOSTA on people who trade sex, including sex workers and human trafficking survivors, and the urgent need for Congress to rigorously study these consequences through the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act.
Four Years Since SESTA/FOSTA was Signed, Sex Workers Call on Congress to Learn from its Mistake! On the Anniversary of SESTA/FOSTA, Sex Worker Rights Organizations Hold a Call-in Day to Demand Passage of the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act.
On March 3, 2022, International Sex Workers Rights Day, Rep. Ro Khanna, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Barbara Lee and Sen. Ron Wyden make history by re-introducing the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act (SSWSA) with the support of 70 different organizations from anti-violence, public health, technology, and civil and human rights.
The Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center strongly opposes the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2022, also known as the EARN IT Act of 2022 (S.3538). Despite being premised on the critically important goal of combatting sexual exploitation of children online, this bill would in fact make protecting children from such abuse more challenging.
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