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capacity building & awareness raising a European guide with strategies for the empowerment of sex workers capacity building & awareness raising a European guide with strategies for the empowerment of sex workers INDOORS Support and empowerment of female sex workers and trafficked women working in hidden places This guide is based on contributions from the nine partners of the INDOORS project. It was compiled within the framework of the INDOORS project (January 2011- December 2012), under the coordination of the following organisation: Autres Regards 3, Rue de Bone | 13005 Marseille | France | Tel. +33 (0)4 9142 4290 [email protected] | www.autresregards.org Editors Licia Brussa, Dennis van Wanrooij | TAMPEP International Foundation | Amsterdam | The Netherlands Text correction Nine | www.outofthisboringneighbourhood.com Photos Elena Tubaro | Scienzartambiente | Former Convent of San Francesco Pordenone 2009 Design and layout Brigitte Reinhardt | Hamburg | Germany Print Flyeralarm | Germany This guide was made possible by the INDOORS project, with the financial support of the Daphne III Programme of the European Commission. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission. The Capacity Building and Awareness Raising guide is part of a series of other resources produced by the INDOORS project: • Pictures of a Reality | Sex workers talk about their life and work experiences within the indoor sex work setting in nine European cities • Equal Rights | advocacy video • INDOORS Outreach Report | Sex workers’ working and living conditions in nine European cities • Indoor Sex Work | Analysis and good practice manual on indoor sex work settings in seven European cities • Safer Work | leaflets for sex workers in six languages Acknowledgements We appreciate the financial contribution of the partners of the INDOORS project, and wish to thank the local contributors: • Bundeskanzleramt: Frauen | Federal Chancellery: Women | Austria • Agence Régionale de Santé, Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône | Regional Health Agency, General Council of Bouches du Rhône | France • Sidaction, Ensemble contre le Sida | Sidaction, Together against AIDS | France • Hamburger Behörde für Gesundheit und Verbraucherschutz | Hamburg Secretary for Health and Consumer Protection | Germany Publisher Autres Regards | Marseille | France © Autres Regards October 2012 We come from many ‘different countries and many different backgrounds, but we have discovered that we face many of the same problems in our work and in our lives. Sex Workers in Europe ’ Manifesto, 2005 CONTENTS The INDOORS project .................................... 5 The INDOORS partners ................................... 6 Guidance for empowerment ............................ 8 Methodology ............................................... 9 General definitions ........................................11 Sex work in Europe today .................................16 Local policies and legal frameworks .....................21 European networks .......................................23 Understanding violence against sex workers ...........24 Sex work settings ..........................................26 Issues to be addressed by services for sex workers .....27 European experiences...................................28 Austria .....................................................30 Bulgaria ....................................................43 Finland .....................................................54 France ......................................................67 Germany ...................................................81 Italy .........................................................94 Netherlands ............................................. 106 Portugal .................................................. 119 Spain ..................................................... 131 Recommendations ..................................... 143 the INDOORS project The aim of the INDOORS project is the empowerment of female sex workers working indoors, i.e., in apartments, brothels, massage parlours, windows, bars, clubs, saunas, other private places, and via the internet. he project’s intention is to develop The project strategies for female sex workers to The INDOORS project was carried out between January protect themselves against violence, 2011 and December 2012, within a partnership of nine while giving them the means to become organisations in nine member states of the European active agents in terms of their well-being, Union: Austria, Bulgaria, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, physical and mental health. the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. The goal of INDOORS was to carry out an analysis of the TFurther objectives working and living conditions of female sex workers in facilitate their access to social and health services, nine cities of these countries: Amsterdam, Genoa, Ham- to labour and human rights. burg, Helsinki, Madrid, Marseille, Porto, Sofia and Vienna. empower and improve their self-esteem and The project was financed by the European Union, in professionalism. the framework of the Daphne III Programme of the make more visible and audible their voices against European Commission. violence, discrimination and stigmatisation. INDOORS produced four final products. They are raise public awareness of policies that reduce avai-lable at www.autresregards.org and at the the violence, discrimination and stigma suffered partners’ websites. by female sex workers. Capacity Building and Awareness Raising | enhance the knowledge of outreach workers A European guide for the empowerment and other professionals regarding the indoor of sex workers prostitution setting. Equal Rights | advocacy video develop local networks of NGOs, social services INDOORS Outreach Report | The working and health services dealing with indoor-based and living conditions of indoor-based sex workers sex workers. in nine European cities facilitate and expand the exchange of information Pictures of a Reality | Sex workers talk about their in Europe regarding indoor prostitution, life and work experiences within the indoor sex work good practices and lobby strategies for setting in nine European cities sex workers’ rights, especially their right to protection and access to justice. The INDOORS project had a previous phase, carried out between January 2009 and December 2010, also within the framework of the Daphne Programme III. It had six partner organisations in five European countries: Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal. 5 the INDOORS partners HESED (Health and Social Develop- AUSTRIA ment Foundation) was founded FRANCE in 1998 as a successor of the first LEFÖ Autres Regards organisation working in the field of Kettenbrückengasse 15/4 3, Rue de Bone HIV/AIDS prevention in Bulgaria. 1050 Vienna 13005 Marseille The organisation’s mission is to Austria France create opportunities for personal Tel +43 1 58 11 881 Tel +33 4 9142 4290 and community development, Fax +43 1 58 11 882 [email protected] health and social well-being, and [email protected] www.autresregards.org to develop and promote effective www.lefoe.at approaches for successful integra- Autres Regards is a community- LEFÖ (Counselling, Education and tion of disadvantaged communities. based organisation that since 1995 Support for Migrant Women) is an has worked with and for street- autonomous migrant women’s based sex workers of all genders. organisation that was founded The organisation works on STI/HIV in 1985 in Vienna. LEFÖ supports FINLAND prevention, health promotion, and migrant women, migrant sex the improvement of access to health Pro-tukipiste workers and migrants who are services and fundamental rights Vilhonkatu 4B 20 affected by trafficking. It provides for sex workers. Since January 2009, 00100 Helsinki a broad spectrum of holistic and Autres Regards’ work has also Finland largely first-language-based out- been extended to indoor-based Tel +358 9 2512 730 reach and empowerment activities, sex workers. Fax +358 9 2512 7388 counselling and support for legal, [email protected] psychosocial and health issues. www.pro-tukipiste.fi LEFÖ advocates for the rights of migrant women and sex workers. Pro-tukipiste (Pro Centre Finland), GERMANY founded in 1999, is a registered non-profit organisation which ragazza e.V. Brennerstr. 19 supports and promotes the civil and 20099 Hamburg BULGARIA human rights of individuals involved Germany in sex work. It offers professional Tel +49 40 24 46 31 HESED low-threshold social support, health Fax +49 40 2805 5033 87, Stamboliiski Blvd., 2nd floor care services and legal advice for sex [email protected] 1303 Sofia workers in Helsinki and Tampere. [email protected] Bulgaria Services are free of charge and www.ragazza-hamburg.de Tel +359 2 851 81 08 anonymous, politically and Fax +359 2 953 34 55 religiously independent. The organi- ragazza is an NGO that has offered [email protected] sation also offers training on issues support and counselling on health www.hesed.bg concerning sex work and trafficking and social issues for drug-using in human beings. female sex workers in Hamburg 6 since 1991. It offers a consumer room, needle exchange, meals, NETHERLANDS APDES (Agência Piaget para o showers and overnight accommo- Desenvolvimento) is an NGO dation. Other activities are outreach TAMPEP founded in 2004 to promote work, harm reduction interventions, International Foundation sustainable development. It