History of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective

Community-Based Responses to Negative Health Impacts of Sexual Humanitarian Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Criminalization of Sex Work and Migration in the US

“…In Australia, a number of sex worker-led outreach organizations have continued to receive state funding since the mid 1980s, and their role in promoting health amongst sex workers has been widely acknowledged (Bates and Berg 2014). In New Zealand, the New Zealand Prostitute Collective (NZPC) was offered government health funds to run prevention programs in 1987 and is a leading organization in providing health and rights support for sex workers (Healy et al 2010). In Cambodia, Hoefinger and Srun (2017) work highlights the salience of intersectional approaches to shared movement building and political organizing now taking place among different marginalized groups of sex workers and LGBT+ communities in response to sexual humanitarian interventions.…”

“…Importantly, comparative research in India and South Africa showed that, in order to be efficient, peer-to-peer programs need to be provided with sufficient funding, support, and resources (Cornish and Campbell 2009). Other studies have reported how, with the appropriate support, grassroots sex worker rights organizations around the globe have developed to become non-profit organizations, and in some instances, fully funded service providers offering services beyond HIV/AIDS and sexual health-including community and social support, peer-to-peer education, legal advice, counseling, and work transition programs-whilst also advocating against harmful anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution sexual humanitarian policies, and for labor rights and unionization (Majic 2014;Lutnick 2019;Healy et al 2010;Garofalo Geymonat and Macioti 2016;Macioti and Geymonat 2016;Hardy 2010;Gall 2007;Chateauvert 2014;Smith and Mac 2018).…”

Designing prostitution policy

“…A governing arrangement where one or more public agencies directly engage non-state stakeholders in a collective decision-making process that is formal, consensus-oriented, and deliberative and that aims to make or implement public policy or manage public programs or assets. (Ansell and Gash, 2008, p 544) This definition covers various types of collaborative arrangements, from conflict resolution platforms in which parties who are locked in intransigent conflict try to find mutually acceptable accommodations (Innes and Booher, 2010) to the kind of long-standing contractual relationships that the NZPC in New Zealand or the Scarlett Alliance in Australia holds with public health agencies (Healy et al, 2010;Gall, 2014). But whatever the nature of the arrangement, to designate it as collaborative, to allow it to build effective governing capacity, it needs to have the following characteristics.…”

Mandatory Testing for HIV and Sexually Transmissible Infections among Sex Workers in Australia: A Barrier to HIV and STI Prevention

“…Rather, there has been demonstrated success among sex workers in Sydney and Perth (where testing is voluntary), who show uniformly low STI prevalence when compared with sex workers in Melbourne (where testing is mandatory) [18]. The success of a voluntary model is further evident in New Zealand, where, since decriminalisation of sex work in 2005, nearly 97% of sex workers have voluntary sexual health checks [19].…”