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TAMPEP (European Network for the Promotion of Rights and Health among Migrant Sex Workers) is an international organisation that supports the health and human rights of migrant
Migrants' Right to Health
Founded in 1993, with headquarters in
retrieved 4 October 2009 The organisation produces regular reports about the situation of sex workers in Europe. TAMPEP's literature emphasises the need to cleanly distinguish between the issues of
retrieved 4 October 2009 TAMPEP has also operated in
sex worker
A sex worker is a person who provides sex work, either on a regular or occasional basis. The term is used in reference to those who work in all areas of the sex industry.Oxford English Dictionary, "sex worker" According to one view, sex work is ...
s in Europe
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.Margaret DucketMigrants' Right to Health
UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS; , ONUSIDA) is the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The mission of UNAIDS is to lead, strengthen and support an ex ...
Best Practice Collection, March 2001
History
Founded in 1993, with headquarters in Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...
, the organisation initially operated in Italy, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands. As of November 2019, it coordinates a network of 30 organisations, in 25 countries of Europe, and receives funding from the European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...
, as well as from national governments, and was said to reach persons from over 80 different nationalities, as of January 2018. As of November 2019, TAMPEP is hosted by Pro-tukipiste, a service provider organisation based in Helsinki, Finland.
TAMPEP originally stood for "Transnational AIDS/STD prevention amongst Migrant Prostitutes in Europe Project"; " STD" was later changed to " STI". The organisation has changed its self-description several times over the years: By 2004, it presented itself as the "European Network for Transnational AIDS/STD Prevention among Migrant Prostitutes"; as of 2019, it calls itself the "European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers".
TAMPEP states that in 2017, it was re-structured into a "migrant sex worker-led network that unites sex worker groups and allies in the fields of sex work, migration, and health. The purpose of the network is to build stronger partnerships, and to advocate for the rights and health of migrant and mobile sex workers at the European level".
Activities
The main concern of the project isHIV/AIDS
The HIV, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system. Without treatment, it can lead to a spectrum of conditions including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is a Preventive healthcare, pr ...
prevention; it approaches the problem from a general health and human rights approach, working for empowerment and self-determination of female and transsexual migrant sex workers, and for improvements in their working conditions and social situation. The member organisations employ street work, peer educators, and informational materials to contact migrant sex workers.TAMPEP General Presentationretrieved 4 October 2009 The organisation produces regular reports about the situation of sex workers in Europe. TAMPEP's literature emphasises the need to cleanly distinguish between the issues of
trafficking
Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. More broadly, soc ...
, sex work
Sex work is "the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation. It includes activities of direct physical contact between buyers and sellers as well as indirect sexual stimulation". Sex work only refers to volun ...
, and migration
Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to: Human migration
* Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another
** International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum le ...
. TAMPEP opposes trafficking as a human rights abuse, but supports efforts to improve working conditions of sex workers and to facilitate migration.TAMPEP Position Paper on Migration and Sex Work (2002)retrieved 4 October 2009 TAMPEP has also operated in
Nigeria
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, where it helps to rehabilitate sex workers deported from Italy.
See also
*Istanbul Convention
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a International human rights instruments, human rights treaty of the Council of Europe oppos ...
* List of sex worker organizations
This is a list of sex worker organizations which advocate for sex workers' rights.
Almost all sex worker organizations around the world favour the decriminalization of sex work, and have that goal as a primary objective. These organizations also e ...
* Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Sexual and reproductive health and rights or ''SRHR'' is the concept of human rights applied to sexuality and Human reproduction, reproduction. It is the recognition of every person’s right to make fully informed and self-determined decisions ...
* Sexual consent
Sexual consent is consent to engage in sexual activity. In many jurisdictions, sexual activity without consent is considered rape or other forms of sexual assault.
Academic discussion of consent
In the late 1980s, academic Lois Pineau argued tha ...
* Sex workers' rights
* The Red Thread (De Rode Draad)
References
External links
* {{Authority control Human rights organisations based in the Netherlands Sex worker organisations based in the Netherlands International human rights organizations