European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance (ESWA)’s EU Election Manifesto calls on the politicians who run for the EU elections to express their support for sex workers’ self-determination and the recognition of sex work as work. With women’s rights, reproductive rights and gender equality threatened across the European Union and beyond, it is of utmost importance to solidarity with sex workers, who face myriad forms of violence: from structural and institutional to physical and interpersonal. In order to address the systematic oppression sex workers face, we ask all politicians to concentrate their resources on including and amplifying sex workers’ voices in policy making on issues that impact the lives of sex workers and to stop promoting legal frameworks that have been proven to be detrimental to sex workers’ rights.
European criminal justice systems are often oppressive, and therefore we do not see increased policing, prosecution, and imprisonment as the solution to violence against women, trans people and gender inequality. We believe in a transformative justice approach that is rooted in supporting and investing in community interventions, long-term organising and mobilisation against the complexity of violence against women and trans people, including economic inequalities, and the lack of accessible social security nets and services.
Signatories:
- Alia Juez
- Alina Grabley
- Andreia Teixeira
- Ariel Sanz
- Bér Engels
- Carolina Clemente
- Carlos Silva
- Carlos Vallejos
- Caterina Cariola
- Catarina Trigo Pereira
- Claudia Santos Garcia
- Colectivo de Prostitutas de Sevilla
- Digital Advisor Advisor
- Dimitra Kalampaliki
- Estefanía Acién
- Estelle Ceulemans
- Federica Valcauda
- Fernando Fita-Ortega
- Flora Hummel
- Gabriele Mula
- Gaye Dalton
- Giorgio Pasetto
- Iva Jovovic
- Ivana Acevska
- Jaap Ouwejan
- Jeroen Frijters
- Joos Olejniczak
- Johanna Zobel
- Julian Kranz
- Kumi More
- Lola Docx
- Lillia Rubin
- louka dom
- Maria Rocha
- Maria Stephanie Klee
- Mario Jacobo Playá Rosell
- Matteo Di Maio
- Nadia van der Linde
- Nele Merten
- Nikolai Milbrecht
- Olivia Andersson
- Phoebe Marsh
- Piera Viale
- Rafael Galupa
- Rita Neto
- Rikke Rosa
- Roos Schippers
- Sarah Bannon
- Selma Levrence
- Serena Medici
- Sonia Bonny
- Sonja Huber
- Sonja Volz
- Steven Scheldeman
- Sérgio Vitorino
- Tess Lowery
- Thomas Ganskow
- Tom Veeke
- Uriel Cuenca Miranda
- Veronica Hernandez
- Veronica Munk
- Weronika Pióro
- Wilko Toxx
- Wszebor Sienkiewicz
- Emily Kho
- Marco Stizioli
- k atarina
- Doro Ziemer
- Magdalena Dropek