…dividuals including sex workers, academics, trade unionists, human-rights advocates, and women’s rights and LGBT+ rights activists. The core aim ICRSE is to ensure that the voices sex workers in the region are heard, listened to and respected. We strive to raise awareness about the social exclusion female, male and transgender sex workers in Europe and Central Asia; to promote the human, health and labour rights all sex workers at community, national and regional level; and to build alliances with key partners, including sex workers and their organisations globally, NGOs and other civil society organisations and key stakeholders at the level EU policy and decision-making.

ICRSE opposes all forms criminalisation sex work and strongly disputes the conflation sex work with trafficking. We aim to raise awareness the harmful impact the conflation sex work with trafficking on sex workers’ lives and seek to put forward a labour rights’ perspective sex work, whereby the labour, health and human rights all sex workers are recognised, protected and fulfilled by national, regional and international laws, policies and programmes.

ICRSE supports sex workers’ right to self-determination and self organisation. Sex workers can and do effect change; solidarity among ICRSE members will ensure that the needs and voices female, male and transgender sex workers will be heard and addressed equally.