Launching First Global Report on Sex Worker Rights Defenders at Risk
Date: 12-08-2021Time: 10:00 New York, 15:00 London, 16:00 Johannesburg, 21:00 BangkokLocation: facebook and youtube
Launch of the first ever global investigation into targeted violence, threats and attacks against sex worker rights defenders.
Speakers include:
- United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng,
- Comedian Margaret Cho,
- Journalist Melissa Gira Grant,
- Human rights defenders Kay Thi Win (Asian Pacific Network of Sex Workers) and
- Ceyenne Doroshow (Gays & Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society and
- Wenty Ismail (Tanzania)
- Front Line Defenders Executive Director Andrew Anderson,
- Report researcher and author Erin Kilbride.
The report features case studies, testimonies, security analysis, and
protection requests from human rights defenders, documented on
collaborative research trips conducted by Front Line Defenders
researchers and HRDs. Between 2017 and 2020, Front Line Defenders
interviewed more than 350 sex worker rights defenders and sex worker
community members in more than a dozen countries.
