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.
