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#CSW69 here and queer in 2025

March 5th, 2025 · · Events Comments Off on #CSW69 here and queer in 2025 - Tags:

Would you like to spend time with the Sex Worker Rights Working Group during the 2025 Commission on the Status of Women? This year at the Commission our work will be educational and link folks to celebrate the night life that NYC is famous for. Sterling Starlets Burlesque will host a show to celebrate every element of community on March 16. The show is free for swers and trans/gender-expansive folks but please don’t miss out if money is a concern. We can provide some free tickets and CSW attendees get a discount. We are hosting parallel sessions too, online and in person!

IN PERSON Panel discussion on Friday March 14 at 12.30 – 2 pm US ET – Present – Trans and Sex Worker Rights Organizing for Beijing+30 and CSW69, Drew Room/8th floor of the Church Center of the United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York. Organized by the Sex Worker Rights Working Group. Free and open to everyone (no UN Pass needed).

SHOW – Sterling Starlets Burlesque – the Commission Edition, Sunday March 16 doors open at 7 pm with show at 8 pm (food and drinks available for purchase). Join the Sterling Starlets for a global celebration (and queering) of the 2025 Commission of the Status of Women aka CSW69. A spectacular night affirming our queer, trans and femme existences, everyone welcome, wheelchair accessible, FREE for swers and gender expansive folks, tickets $12 otherwise (discount codes available if needed). Crystal Lake Brooklyn, 647 Grand Street (coming from the UN – 4/5/6 downtown from Grand Central to Union Square and then change to the Brooklyn Bound L, exit at Grand Street and walk to venue). Sign up here – https://tinyurl.com/BurlesqueCSW69

ONLINE 12.30 pm US ET on  Wednesday, March 19 for CSW69: Sex Workers Deserve Quality of Life (online). Free! Open to everyone! Join us for an online parallel session, hear from sex worker leadership during the UN Commission on the Status of Women, organized by Jenna Torres with support from the Sex Worker Rights Working Group. Sign up here –https://www.eventbrite.com/e/csw69-sex-workers-deserve-quality-of-life-online-tickets-1261723883099

December 17 – Breaking the silence about violence

December 17th, 2024 · · Events, Training No comments - Tags:

Today 4 pm US ET – we are acknowledging December 17, 2024 with a webinar entitled Silence, Violence, and Sex Workers Rights, a roundtable discussion put together and moderated by New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance and supported by BPPP. Come and learn about how we are documenting the rights violations experienced by sex workers and trans folks, how to get involved and how this will end the silence.
Register here —> https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kw0wSHGiSk6n2gYwA_Swsw

We will be speaking about our research into rights violations as we prepare to hold the US accountable at the United Nations in 2025. Interested in joining the research project? There are many options for participation including filling out a survey, having a conversation, filing a report of a violation, being on a mailing list, joining a working group and/or applying to join our artists cohort. Express interest by filling out this form https://form.jotform.com/rightsnotrescue/join-us

More about today’s moderator – Session moderator N’jaila Rhee is the executive director of NJRUA. N’Jaila is a key member of the coalition preparing a UN report on human violations experienced by sex workers in the US and the policies affecting sex workers worldwide wide. N’Jaila led an enthusiastic team to EXXXOTICA this year providing direct support, harm reduction and information, including two workshops on human rights and arts.

N’Jaila Rhee, ED of NJRUA
Beyonce Karungi

Featuring panelist Beyonce Karungi – Beyonce began her activism with key populations in 2009 and is also involved in efforts to stop violence towards women and girls, to promote sex and sexuality education for youth, and to increase young people’s access to friendly SRHR services across Uganda. At the global level, Beyonce worked with the International Reference Group on Trans Women and HIV, UNDP, UNFPA, UNAIDS, PEPFAR, the Global Fund, and USAID to develop the TRANSIT. Beyonce is currently leading the drafting process of the upcoming UN shadow report on the state of sex worker rights and trans rights in the US and the impact of US policies worldwide.

Jenna Rollins will do a reading and be part of the moderated discussion today on how we are documenting rights violations and ending the silence about violence against sex workers. Sign up here – https://givebutter.com/ivjGxl

Jenna Torres

CSW68 Community-Led Parallel Sessions

March 6th, 2024 · · Events No comments

The in person session The Intersection of Trans and Sex Worker Rights: Dismantling Barriers to Equality CSW68 is organized by the Sex Workers Coalition and ILGA World on March 14 at 2.30 pm ET at the church center, second floor. This session will showcase sex worker and trans leadership from across the globe to discuss organizing strategies for addressing the pushback on trans lives. The session is moderated by Monica Jones (The Outlaw Project) and includes speakers Erika Smith (BPPP),  Beyonce Karungi (Trans Equality Uganda and BPPP) and a representative of the BSWC. Social media by NJRUA. Reserve a seat (walk ins will also be welcome): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/csw68-the-intersection-of-trans-and-sex-workers-rights-tickets-854945263297


The online session Sex Worker Rights as a Resolution to Poverty CSW68 is organized by the Sex Workers Coalition on March 18 at 2.30 pm until 4.30pm ET. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/csw68-sex-worker-rights-as-a-resolution-to-poverty-online-tickets-857598138117 and check out the FB event page https://fb.me/e/45bwCthkH

The Rights of Sex Workers in the Digital Age #CSW67

February 21st, 2023 · · Events No comments - Tags: ,

Our sex worker coalition holds space at the UN Commission on the Status of Women and this year our session will be moderator by Monica Jones (Founder and Director of the Outlaw Project). She will welcome international and local advocates including Sinnamon Love of BIPOC-AIC, N’Jaila Rhee of NJRUA, Beyonce Karungi, Trans Equality Uganda and Nosipho Vidima representing The BSWC.

Time: 6.15pm, March 9, 2023

Location: 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017 (on the corner of East 44th Street)

Room: CCUN 2nd Floor

How to reserve your spot? Be there at 6 pm to get your spot. We may also update with an Eventbrite to assure seating. Keep an eye on the FB Event Page for more updates

More about the event: Sex workers’ rights are at the forefront of many social movements that are central to human rights for women and sex workers are innovators in technologies in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all. This in-person panel discussion will showcase sex worker leadership from across the globe to discuss digital technologies, online spaces and rights questions pertaining to access for women. We will describe how laws restricting sexuality, including sex workers, but more generally, limit women’s right to digital assembly (a vital way in which we all globally organize due to the COVID-19 pandemic), strategies for women’s rights in online spaces that defend our bodies, our speech, and the free flow of ideas. We will also review areas of multilateral and global policies that affirm the rights of sex workers and how fears about digital life are challenging these rights.