Description
The project aims to raise awareness on the violence, crimes and discrimination against sex workers, a marginalized female group and mobilize public opinion and stakeholders in order to tackle these phenomena. Their target groups are sex workers, public opinion, policy makers, law enforcement and social professionals working with sex workers. The main activities the project will conduct is involvement of sex worker activists, data collection, analysis and visualization, report, video campaign, 17th Dec international day to end violence against sex workers, cooperation with police and legal aid. As a result, a database is being built up that can be sustained by community resources and highlights the volume and nature of violence against sex workers. The data will be presented to the public and stakeholders, e.g. law enforcement by a campaign. Sex worker activists will be involved in data collection, peer outreach to their fellow sex workers. Pilot cooperation will also be built with the police.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project was to emphasize advocacy for the human rights of sex workers in Hungary. During the project sex workers shared their experience of abuse and discrimination with one another and undertook to spread these information to a wider public. The other limb of the project was to strengthen cooperation with the police and provide legal aid to sexworkers in need. In the long term these activities all point to the direction of achieving UN Women and CEDAW recommended standards in the protection of rights of vulnerable people, especially sexworkers.
Summary of bilateral results