Word on the Street - interviews with sex workers
By: SexWorkersProject_NYC
Posted: Jul 7 08
Witnessed: 497 times
Americas & the Caribbean, North America, United States
LGBTQ, Sexual rights
New York City, outreach, sex work
This series of interviews features sex workers on New York City streets, who spoke to outreach teams about their experiences in sex work.
Transcripts can be read at the Sex Workers Project website.
Through Thick and Thin: Immigration and Gay Couples
Breakthrough interviewed Sebastian Cordoba on his new film, "Through Thick and Thin," a documentary about the immigration struggles for lesbian and gay couples in America.
United States
Immigration , LGBTQ
Human Rights Defenders - Latvia
Linda Freiman co-founded Mozaika, an organisation that has given a voice to many gays and lesbians in Latvia....
Latvia
LGBTQ, Sexual rights
AIDS08: Peter Piot on Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, on why a human rights approach is not the best approach as well from a policy and effectiveness perspective, and on why countries that criminalize homosexuali...
Global, Mexico
HIV-AIDS, LGBTQ, Sexual rights
Voices From Silence
Running Time: 12 Minutes.
North America, United States
Mental disability rights, Rape and sexual abuse, Women's rights
Discrimination against gays still strong in Africa
Testimony from George Kanuma from Bujumbura, Burundi on homophobia in French-speaking Africa and the need to focus on marginalized community to fight HIV/AIDS
Burundi, Rwanda, West Africa
HIV-AIDS, LGBTQ, Sexual rights
The Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
The APNSW was formed in 1994 by members of some of Asia’s first organizations to work on health and human rights with sex workers, Empower Thailand, Sweetly Japan, Pink Triangle Malaysia, the Scar...
Asia
LGBTQ, Sexual rights
Liberty Coalition
The Liberty Coalition works to help organize, support, and coordinate transpartisan public policy activities related to civil liberties and basic rights....
United States
PEN American Center
PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 centers of International PEN, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization....
Global, United States
Education, Freedom of opinion & expression
Books Not Bars
Books Not Bars fights to redirect California's resources away from youth incarceration and towards youth opportunities....
United States
Juvenile justice
Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
Founded in 1995, the Midwest Coalition for
Human Rights is now a network of more
than 40 advocacy organizations, service
providers, and university-based human
United States
Immigration , Labor unions, Torture/ill treatment
