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On #InternationalSexWorkerRightsDay, we spotlight The Black Sex Worker Collective’s study, showing how intersecting forms of discrimination push Black LGBTI sex workers into homelessness & long-term instability 🔗 ilga-europe.org/report/the-power-of-data-addressing-lgbti-homelessness-in-europe/

Over black background is patterned illustration of white umbrellas. Large, bold, neon green all caps font reads, "SEX WORKER RIGHTS ARE:" Below this is list of all caps text in purple, pink orange, yellow, teal, and blue reading, "LABOR RIGHTS | REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | BODILY AUTONOMY RIGHTS | DISABILITY RIGHTS | RACIAL AND GENDER JUSTICE RIGHTS | TRANS RIGHTS". Smaller neon green text below this reads, "and so much more." At right is hot pink high heel icon, smaller purple heel icon at left. Over black box in bottom right corner is NHRC black and white + rainbow 30th anniversary logo.

🧵Everyone has a human right to safety, & #WorkShouldBeSafe — full stop. On #InternationalSexWorkerRightsDay & every day, we're reminded that the criminalization of sex work allows a culture of violence, harassment, lack of #WorkerProtections, & disregard of human rights to thrive. Sex workers...

A graphic that features a hand holding a megaphone & the following text: "March 3rd is International Sex Worker Rights Day This marks the 25th anniversary of the 2001 festival in Kolkata, India, where over 25,000 sex workers gathered, despite opposition from prohibitionist groups that pressured the government to revoke their permit. Today, as the current administration’s deep cuts to Title X & Medicaid gut public STI programs & reproductive care, the sexual economy is being pushed into a corner. As a self-regulatory body, PASS: Provides industry-standard STI testing policies that public systems are abandoning. Advocates for workers whose safety is most at risk under these new federal restrictions. Builds policies through a diverse community of volunteer public & sexual health practitioners, researchers, & adult industry workers - NOT by a government that seeks to ignore us. Stay safe, stay strong, stay PASS Certified. PASS"

Today is International Sex Worker Rights Day.
Stay safe, stay strong, stay PASS Certified. ✅

Fondo rosa con texto negro que dice, “¡Ahora aceptando aplicaciones para el Círculo de Donaciones de Trabajadores Sexuales! Fecha limite: el 2 de abril, 2026. Aprende mas y postulate: bit.lyswgc2026espanol.” En la parte inferior derecha está el logotipo de CDTS TWF.

En el Día Internacional de los Derechos de les Trabajadores Sexuales, honramos su liderazgo. El Círculo de Donantes de Trabajadores Sexuales en Third Wave Fund abrió su ciclo de subvención de 2026! Solicítelo antes del 2 de abril para becas de $35K/año por 2 años. Aprende más: bit.ly/swgc2026espanol

Pink background with black text that reads, “Now Accepting SWGC Grantee Applications! Deadline: April 2, 2026. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/swgc2026. Deslizar para Español.” In the bottom right is the SWGC TWF logo.

On International Sex Worker Rights Day, we honor sex worker leadership everywhere. The Sex Worker Giving Circle at Third Wave Fund has opened our 2026 grant cycle!

Apply by April 2 for 2-year grants of $35K/year. Learn more & apply: bit.ly/swgc2026 #InternationalSexWorkerRightsDay #SWGivingCircle

Sex work is work

Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day Sex work is work, and sex workers deserve respect, equality, and the same rights and protections as all workers. On 3 March 2001, over 25,000 sex workers in India gathered for the Kolkata Sex Worker Freedom Festival to advocate for sex worker rights, including safety at work. Prohibitionist groups tried to prevent the festival from taking place by pressuring the government to revoke the group’s permit, but were unsuccessful. Since then, 3 March has become an important date to promote sex worker rights, highlighting the need for sex work to be recognised as legitimate work and for sex workers to be protected under the law. Recognising sex work as work is a vital step towards fighting for decriminalisation, anti-discrimination protections and labour rights.

Did you know that in some parts of unceded Australia, sex work and sex workers are still criminalised? The fight for sex work to be recognised as real work in Australia is far from over. Until all sex workers are free from discrimination, stigma and criminalisation, none of us are truly free.

But I thought sex work was “legal” in Australia? Decriminalisation removes laws and penalties criminalising all aspects of sex work between consenting adults. Sex work is then covered under existing health and safety laws. Legalisation involves laws and regulations permitting sex work under certain conditions, while all other sex work remains criminalised. Under legalisation, governments impose special regulations just for the sex industry. Sex work is partially criminalised in WA Full criminalisation in SA

On International Sex Workers' Rights Day we reiterate the importance of decriminalisation of sex work. Sex work is work! And there is still much more to do before it is recognised as such in Australia.
Read our decriminalisation briefing paper scarletalliance.org.au/wp-content/u...

Today, we stand with sex workers globally.

Refugee & migrant sex workers in all our diversity demand:
• Labour rights
• Full decriminalization
• Equal rights & protection

Our work is labour. Our dignity is non-negotiable. ✊🏾

#InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay #SexWorkIsWork

☂️ ☂️ ☂️ March 3rd
Celebrate International Sex Workers’ Rights Day with us!
In 2021 over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a festival organised by DMSC (dmsc.org) - resisting efforts by prohibitionists to revoke permits
Learn more about sw days at nswp.org
#fundsexworkersrights #sexworkiswork

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International Steering Committee Members 2025 Recruitment – Red Umbrella Fund Red Umbrella Fund is the first and only global fund dedicated to supporting the rights of sex workers.

☂️ ☂️ ☂️ Join the ISC 🌏 🌎 🌍 Are you a current or former sex worker and are part of a sex worker-led organisation based in Eastern Europe & Central Asia? Apply by 16 January 2026 www.redumbrellafund.org/isc-2025-rec...
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To delve into some of the conversations highlighted in our exhibit, we are holding a series of panels. Below you can see our entire calendar of events! #sexwork #mtlpoli
@memmtl.bsky.social

Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

& #D17, I forgot that hashtag for International Day To End Violence Vs. Sex Workers too... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Here's a little taste of what our #D17 offerings are going to look like!

Two Virtual Sessions:
Tuesday 12/17 @ 12 Noon
&
Thursday 12/19 @ 6pm (Pacific)

Sex Workers of the World are welcome to Unite with us in Creative Resistance and Resiliency! ❤️

#SexWorkisWork #SexWorker #SW

Please join us on ZOOM for the December 17 2024 International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers! Registration is open! Please share with sex workers and sex worker groups!
www.eventbrite.com/e/december-1...
#IDEVAS #D17 #IDEVAS24

🗓️ #December2025 #Events 🧵
🇪🇸 #Spain (AN) 👥 #OTRAS 👠 #SexWork 🏷️ #D17 #IDEVASW

Presentation of the book and decrim proposal «En Nombre Propio»
🗓️ Wednesday 17th 🕖 19:00 CET
📍 La Puerta Verde (C/ Javier de Burgos), Cádiz

Background: pink/purple gradient. Text: capital letters in blue with a white border state “We Demand Safety. We Deserve Safety.” Smaller letters under this state “International Day To end violence against sex workers” in the same font/color as above. At the bottom, small, purple letters with white border states “@sweraction”

Background: pink/purple gradient. Text: capital letters in blue with a white border state “Decriminalization makes sex workers safer.” Smaller letters under this state “International Day To end violence against sex workers” in the same font/color as above. At the bottom, small, purple letters with white border states “@sweraction”

Background: pink/purple gradient. Text: capital letters in blue with a white border state “Sex Workers deserve labor protections” Smaller letters under this state “International Day To end violence against sex workers” in the same font/color as above. At the bottom, small, purple letters with white border states “@sweraction”

This #D17 we stand together as an industry and community to demand decriminalization, destigmatization, labor protections, and an end to violence against sex workers.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall ✊

Press release: Ireland’s sex work laws are fueling violence and endangering lives International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (17th Dec) exposes how laws that claim to protect are, in reality, resulting in harassment, violence and even death. The structural violence and s...

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers #IDEVASW. Ireland’s laws are fueling violence and endangering lives.

#IDEVASW exposes how laws that claim to protect are, in reality, resulting in harassment, violence and even death.

sexworkersallianceireland.org/2024/12/pres...

🗓️ #December2025 #Events 🧵
🇪🇸 #Spain (M) 👥 #SindicatoOTRAS 👠 #SexWork 🏷️ #D17 #IDEVASW 🇪🇺 #Europe

«Meetings among people who do Sex Work»: 🎞️ Screening of «Paola» and conversation (…in Spanish)
🗓️ Wednesday 17th 🕔 17:00–19:30 CET
📍 C/ Tres Peces 3, Madrid
✍️ Inscription: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

[English translation; original French after.] Liège - at Kultura «International Day to end Violence Against Sex Workers» Round Table Workshops Projections 16h-21h 13 Rue Roture 420 Liège 17 December 2025 [logo: SNAP] [logo: UTSOPI] [logo: Espace P] [French.] Liège - au Kultura «Journée Mondiale de Lutte contre les Violences Faites aux TDs» Table ronde Ateliers Projections 16h-21h 13 Rue Roture 420 Liège 17 Déc 2025 [logo: SNAP] [logo: UTSOPI] [logo: Espace P]

🗓️ #December2025 #Events 🧵
🇧🇪 #Belgium (WAL) 👥 #UTSOPI 👠 #SexWork 🏷️ #D17 #IDEVASW

🗓️ Wednesday 17th 🏙️ Liège

Memorial and speeches
🕑 14:00–16:00 CET
📍 Esplanade des Guillemins

Worshops, round table, open mic and screenings
🕑 16:00–21:00
📍 KulturA (13 Rue Roture)
ℹ️ www.utsopi.be/agenda/journ...

The Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster's infographic for its candlelight vigil for the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. The image features lit candles, a red umbrella (the international symbol for sex workers' rights), and forget-me-nots. The image also has the date and time of the event.

(1/6) Please join the Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster (at York University: www.yorku.ca/cfr/traffick...) for a candlelight vigil on December 17, 2025, from 12-12:30 PM EST in recognition of the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.

We are once compiling a list of names for #Dec17 this year. If you have names to add to the list, please email us at December17@swopusa.org

#D17

A black image with bold red and white text shown diagonally. The white text highlights the words End Violence Now. The Scarlet Alliance logo is a red umbrella with white text and it is in the bottom right hand corner.

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. We honour all sex workers who have been subjected to violence, murdered or died as a result of criminalisation, stigma, and discrimination. These acts of violence are hate crimes. We honour them by: fighting policy failures challenging all unjust laws exposing the violent actions of governments maintaining the legacy of community-led activism built around the peers we have lost, campaigning to end the violence of Border Force against Asian migrant sex workers. Strength and solidarity from Respect Inc, SWOP NT, SIN, SWOP NSW, Magenta, SWEAR, SWOP ACT, Scarlet Alliance, Touching Base, ATSISWAG and AMSWAG

State violence actively harms sex workers.Criminalisation of our work creates barriers to justice and impunity for offenders committing violence against us. Border Force raids cause profound and lasting trauma for sex workers, workplaces, and communities. Racial profiling of Asian migrant sex workers at the border results in immigration detention. It exposes migrant sex workers, particularly trans women, to significant risks of physical and sexual violence, including denial of medical care and deportation to danger. Street-based sex workers in every jurisdiction except NT and QLD continue to face arrest and ‘move-on’ notices. Working privately with a friend for safety and support is still criminalised in the ACT, SA and WA.

We cannot end this violence without dismantling colonialism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and patriarchy, and ending poverty and the criminalisation of drugs.

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. We honour all sex workers who have been murdered or have died as a result of criminalisation, stigma, and discrimination. Read our briefing papers at linktr.ee/scarlet_alliance

Bold text in the middle in white & red text reads," UNTIL S*X WORKERS ARE SAFE, none of us are safe." Behind are graphics of handcuffs, a fist, copy car, a gun, and a cop with their back turned.

(1/3) Until s*x workers are safe, none of us are safe.

Tomorrow on #D17, International Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers, we honor the workers we've lost to violence and stand firm in our commitment to decriminalization.

🕯️ 17th December is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.

We have prepared resources so you can honour their memory alongside us:
nationaluglymugs.org/internationa...

There are 242 people on NUM's memorial card. Please share ❤️

#IDEVASW #IDEVASW25 #DoMoreThanSayTheirNames

December 17 is a day of remembrance, resistance, and solidarity.
KNESWO Feminist Initiative joins sex workers worldwide to say:
No one is disposable. Sex work is work.
#D17 #SexWorkerRights

17 December is the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers.

PIC always organises a small gathering on this day in our center and at Belle, our sex worker statue at the Oudekerksplein in Amsterdam.

Community, family, friends & allies welcome 🤗

#17dec #IDEVASW #Sekswerk

Invite 👇

Prepping for street outreach for street-based sex workers in Boston. Runs monthly on the 2nd Sunday of the month. Interested in donating supplies? Check out our Amazon wishlist here: www.amazon.com/registries/g...
#GivingTuesday

This year @decrimnow.bsky.social researched the reasons why sex workers in England and Wales are currently entering and remaining in the industry.

Read the full report by here: decrimnow.org.uk/2025/10/30/d...

#16DaysOfActivism #SexWorkIsWork

The #RainbowMap 2025 is live! Find out how 49 European countries rank on LGBTI human rights and see which ones are leading, or falling behind. Check it out now! rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org

Today, KNESWO Feminist Initiative joined a dialogue on SRHR Justice for refugee & migrant LGBTQ+ sex workers, organized by HIAS Kenya.

We engaged with health workers & community members to promote inclusive, dignified & accessible SRHR services for all.
#SRHR LGBTQ #RefugeeRights #SexWorkersRights