Policy

Asociación en Pro Apoyo a Servidores (APROASE) is an organisation formed and directed by Mexican women sex workers, who participate in decision making and peer education. APROASE works with women, men and women transgender sex workers. APROASE priority areas include opposing the criminalisation and other legal oppression of sex work and support its recognition as work; critiquing the trafficking paradigm that conflates representations of sex work, migration, and mobility; advocating for universal access to health services, including primary health care, HIV and sexual and reproductive health services; speaking out about violence against sex workers, including violence from police, institutions, clients, and intimate partners, while challenging the myth that sex work is inherently gender-based violence; opposing human rights abuses, including coercive programming, mandatory testing, raids and forced rehabilitation; challenging stigma and discrimination against sex workers, their families and partners, and others involved in sex work; and advocating for the economic empowerment and social inclusion of sex workers as sex workers.

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