Search this site:. Follow us on Facebook User Login. Know Your Rights: cards for indoor sex workers launched. The US State of Nevada begins to formally regulate sex worker, giving counties the right to license brothels. Margo St. She argues that sex work is work and sex workers should be entitled to worker rights and protection like anyone else.
The strike lasts 7 days and ends when the police raid the churches. The Alliance for the Safety of Prostitutes in Vancouver stage a demonstration outside City Hall and occupy a church a year later to protest new legislation.
The US Prostitutes Collective stage a street protest in Tulsa against penalties forcing sex workers to become street cleaners. This quickly turns sour, however, when police step up arrests and courts raise fines, so women still go to jail โ for failure to pay fines. The first World Whores Congress in Amsterdam adopts the World Charter for Prostitute Rights, which lists decriminalisation, human rights, self-determination in work conditions, health control by sex workers, and public education as its main objectives.
San Francisco hosts the World Whores Summit. Switzerland legalises brothel ownership. Police figures from show that Zurich has a similar per capita number of sex workers as Amsterdam โ about 11 in residents. It organises not just sex workers but all who participate and profit from the sex industry, including taxi drivers, bartenders and hotel workers.
The English Collective of Prostitutes also accuse police of entering flats without warrants and intimidation. The red umbrella is quickly adopted across the world. The conference endorsed the Declaration of the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe see sidebar later and made policy recommendations to the European Parliament. Prostitution was legalized in Bolivia in , but sex workers are still subjected to harassment from the public and the police.
