Press Releases

10/11/2016Sex Workers Project Responds to arrest of Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer

05/26/2016Sex Workers Project Responds to Amnesty International Policy on Decriminalizing Sex Work

01/28/2016Sex Workers Project Statement on Rentboy Indictments

01/26/2016Sex Workers Project Statement on New Hampshire Decriminalization Bill

09/10/2015Sex Workers Project Statement on Rentboy Raids

07/15/2015Visa and MasterCard Make Sex Workers, Trafficking Victims More Vulnerable, Jeopardize Anti-Trafficking Investigations

05/26/2015Sex Workers Project to Congress: 'JVTA is a Step Backwards in the Fight Against Trafficking'

01/13/2015U.S. Embassy Trains State Officials on Identifying TIP Victims

06/02/2014Pilot Project Paves The Way For Survivors Of Human Trafficking To Clear Their Criminal Records

06/21/2013'No Condoms as Evidence' Bill Passes New York State Assembly

05/28/2013Florida Governor Signs HB1325 and HB1327 Relating to Victims of Human Trafficking

03/12/2013Diverse Chorus Applauds as Mayor Bloomberg Signs Two Bills Limiting NYC's Participation in Widely Discredited Immigration Enforcement Programs

02/28/2013New Research Shows Human Trafficking Pipeline From Mexico to NYC

07/19/12At International AIDS Conference in D.C., A Call To Change U.S. Policy On Sex Work and HIV

08/16/10Governor Patterson Signs First In the Nation Bill Allowing Survivors of Sex Trafficking to Clear Prostitution Convictions

06/16/10NY State Senate Passes Legislation Allowing Survivors of Sex Trafficking to Clear Prostitution Convictions

06/18/09Anti-trafficking advocates urge Rhode Island legislators to reject flawed prostitution bill

06/16/09New York State Assembly gives trafficking victims a second chance

12/12/08SWP welcomes increased protections for trafficked persons

11/07/08SWP Statement on Proposition K

11/30/07SWP Statement on World AIDS Day

05/01/07Advocates Criticize Moralistic Policy that Randall Tobias Enforced

11/30/06Murders in Atlantic City Highlight Violence Against Sex Workers

03/30/05Indoor Sex Workers Are Isolated and Fear Violence

12/17/03Candlelight Vigil Calls for an End to Violence Against Sex Workers

06/23/03Report Puts Human Face on Prostitutes as Victims of Violence