1. European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers

2. A Network of community-based service providers and sex workers organisations, cooperating in 25 European countries.
AIMS
 Advocate for sex workers’ human rights
 Develop and implement strategies of HIV and STI prevention amongst sex workers
 Facilitate the sharing and dissemination of knowledge, experience and good practices

3. Sex work & trafficking
Trafficking occurs in prostitution and in many other labour areas
Trafficking in women is a violation of women’s human rights
Prostitution itself without violence, coercion or deceit is NOT a violation of human rights but work
An individual should have the right to sell sexual services and to migrate

4. Impact of repressive policies
Increasingly repressive and punitive policies across Europe
Measures violate sex worker’ human rights
Merging sex work and trafficking
Restriction on migration and prostitution
Criminalization of clients
Human rights X moral

5. Mapping Results
Gender
87% female
7% male
6% transgender
Proportion
of migrants
West Europe  70%
Central Europe  18%
Origin of migrants
36% EU citizens
64% outside EU
(~70% Europe)

6. Transnational nationals 30% - migrants 70%
Mapping Results
Mobility
Transnational nationals 30% - migrants 70%
In-country nationals 47% - migrants 53%
Settings
Indoor nationals 65% - migrants 70%
Outdoor nationals 35% - migrants 30%
Vulnerability
Institutional and work-related violence and abuse
Factors: stigma, discrimination, isolation

7. GERMANY Prostitution is legalised since 2002
Nationalities: 60 to 65% migrants
50% new EU countries Thailand, Poland,
20% Eastern Europe Bulgaria, Rumania,
15% Asia Russia
10% Latin America
5% Africa 42 nationalities
Setting: 80 to 90% indoor
Mobility: 80% of migrants worked elsewhere
Thailand, Netherlands, Spain, Bulgaria, Italy
Demand: sex work linked to the Ministry of Labour

8. Non-repressive approach Inclusion of sex workers
Recommendations
Non-repressive approach
Inclusion of sex workers
Targeted health and social services for sex workers
Human rights protection
Multi-level cooperation and networking

9. Stephanie Klee German sex worker
Rights in prostitution benefit all sex workers, regardless of our different reasons for working in the area and our different countries of origin. Having more rights increases our self-confidence and has a direct effect on how we behave in sex work towards customers, brothel owners, colleagues and the authorities.
2001, Hearing at the German Bundestag's