Women With a Vision is honored to be one of the featured organizations in the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)’s new report entitled, “Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming.” NSWP is a leading organization in the sex worker rights’ movement, working to uphold the voices of sex workers globally and to connect […]
Women With a Vision has a long commitment to fighting for the human rights protection of street-based sex workers and their families, addressing the needs of women impacted by laws and policies that make them unsafe, and that put them at risk for violence, stigmatization, and marginalization. WWAV believes that sex workers’ rights are human […]
On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Women With a Vision’s Executive Director Deon Haywood appeared on msnbc’s Melissa Harris Perry Show on a panel entitled, “Sex, Money, and the Super Bowl,” alongside guests Dave Zirin, Sports Editor at The Nation, Joy Reid, Managing Editor of TheGrio.com, and Yamiche Alcindor, National Reporter at USA Today. WWAV was […]
Women With a Vision’s Executive Director Deon Haywood will be on msnbc’s Melissa Harris Perry Show this Sunday, February 2, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. EST. Deon will appear on a panel entitled, “Sex, Money, and the Super Bowl,” and she will be joining an array of guests including Dave Zirin, Sports Editor at The Nation, […]
In the lead up to the Super Bowl, news report after news report have used the fear of prostitution to perpetuate what has long been shown to be an urban myth — the idea that there are intricate networks of sex workers that descend upon cities for large sporting events, a concept furthered by the […]