Sex worker organizations Sex worker organizations COYOTE, or Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics, is a sex worker activist organization. COYOTE's goals include the decriminalization (as opposed to the legalization) of prostitution, pimping and pandering, as well as the elimination of social stigmas concerning sex work as an occupation. ...more on Wikipedia about "COYOTE"
EMPOWER (Education Means Protection Of Women Engaged in Recreation) or Moolniti Songserm Okard Pooying is a non-profit community organization in Thailand that supports sex workers; it offers free classes in language, health, law and pre-college education as well as individual counseling to these people. The organization also lobbies the government in an attempt to extend regular labor protections to sex workers. ...more on Wikipedia about "EMPOWER"
The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) is a UK based union aiming to decriminalise sex work and have it acknowledged as viable labour. It has official union recognition as the sex industry branch of the GMB British General Union. ...more on Wikipedia about "International Union of Sex Workers"
The New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective (NZPC) is a New Zealand-based organisation that supports the rights of sex workers and educates prostitutes about minimizing the risks of the job. It was founded in 1988. ...more on Wikipedia about "New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective"
Parti Populaire des Putes (rough translation would be the Popular Party of Whores) is a federal political party based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; it promotes the rights of sex trade workers. Its main goals are to decriminalize responsible prostitution in Canada and to promote a positive image of the prostitute in Canadian society as they seek to destroy the more negative stereotypes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Parti Populaire des Putes"
SALLI, Seksialan liitto ( Finnish, United Sex Workers (Of Finland)) is a union of sex workers in Finland, founded in March 2002. Its main aim is to solve the problems of the sex industry and to give out information about sexually transferred diseases etc. The official Internet site of the organization states that SALLI works for the human rights of sex workers. The organization is referred as more of a human rights organization than a workers' union. ...more on Wikipedia about "Salli"
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