An approximation to the violation of sex workers human rights in Barcelona

Researchers: C.Inés Arella, C.Fernández Bessa, G.Nicolás Lazo (coord.), J.Vartabedian.

Period: 2005-2006.
Funding: Institut Català de les Dones and Regidoria de Dona i Drets Civils. Ajuntament de Barcelona.
 

Summary: the research is about four main aspects that condition the free exercise of sexl work, and simultaneously cause the main violations against rights of the group of sexl workers. The juridical situation and political consideration of sex work, the condition of foreign of most of the sex workers, the street as a space of action and interaction and the stigma that falls on this activity were the four main axis of this research. The general conclusion we arrive to after this run is that the State of Law is completely absent in the sex work field. We can see that the group of sex workers in Barcelona suffers a violation of twenty five human rights (labour, social, of the person’s integrity, effective access to jurisdiction, juridical security, freedom and equality).
 

Publication: Los pasos (in)visibles de la prostitución. Estigma, persecución y vulneración de los derechos de las trabajadoras sexuales en Barcelona, Virus, Barcelona, 2007.
ISBN: 84-96044-82-3/978-84-96044-82-1
 

Contents: Introduction. Presentation. I. The beginning of a path. II. Juridical and political state of art of sex work. III. Sex work and migrations. IV. Sex work on the street. V. De-construction of an stigma. VI. The invisibility of sex workers’ human rights. Conclusions. Bibliography.