Toronto 2006

From August 13th to 18th, in Toronto, there were the XVIth International AIDS Conference. Stella, Maggie’s and Canadian sex workers were welcoming you for a week of extraordinary actions and exchange. We were at the Global Village, in the Stiletto Lounge, with Zi Teng, Danaya So and the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW). Every day, blogs about sex work-related activities were posted on our Web site by our super mistress reporters.

> Photos and Videos

> August 16th - Sex Workers’ Rights: Time to Deliver!
> August 14th - Health and Human Rights Advocates Denounce Gates Foundation’s Support of Raids on Sex Workers

> Conference Blog:
August 18th: Kecia Larkin and Stephen Lewis
August 17th: Broadening the agenda – Involvement of persons living with HIV – Francophone meeting
August 16th: Time to Deliver! - VIHsibilité – Disappointment and moralising discourses
August 15th: Making the Connection: Gender-based Violence and HIV
August 15th: HIV, Law, Criminalisation and Fights - Star Whores
August 14th: Women’s March - Peer Educators - Sexual Rights - Human Rights: What can be done? - Pleasure
August 13th: Vaccines - US Policy – Melinda Gates

> Stilletto Lounge Blog:
August 17th: Performances and Closing ceremony
August 16th: Sex Worker's March - Human Rights Watch - Migrant Dolls - Tracy Quan
August 15th: Broken Hope - Sexxxy Shows - $pread Magazine
August 15th: Marginalized Groups Speak Out at AIDS Conference

> And more:
Video: Taking the Pledge, sexworkerspresent on blip.tv
AIDS 2006: Hangover and heartache in the Stiletto Lounge, Sasha
Rachel Wotton's Reports, Scarlet Alliance (Australia)
From Gabriela Leite of Davida, Daspu & Rede Brasileira de Prostitutas (Brazil):
Marcha internacional reúne mil ativistas
Os Gates, a prostituta sem medo e a Usaid
Prostitutas são aplaudidas em manifestação no Canadá

> You can't fight HIV without sex workers. And we can't fight HIV without human rights and workers' rights!

> In the Press

Stella's Leaflets
Sex Workers, Human Rights and the Fight against HIV
Sex Work and the United States’ Policies on HIV
Sex Workers and Trafficking
Sex Workers and Research Ethics

Sex Work, HIV and Politics
AIDS Conference: Turn U.N. Promises into Action, Human Rights Watch, August 14, 2006
Stella and the struggle against HIV-AIDS, July 31, 2006
International civil society denounce UN meeting on AIDS as a failure, June 2nd, 2006
Intervention by Martine Ago at the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, May 31st, 2006
Address to a panel discussion at the United Nations 2006 High-Level Meeting on AIDS, Joanne Csete, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, May 31st, 2006
NSWP Reports on UNGASS 2006
In Bangkok at the 15th AIDS Conference, NSWP, July, 2004