ADPWL is the member of following organizations/networks
Global Network of Sex Workers Project (NSWP)
The ADPWL has been a member of NSWP since 2021. NSWP is a membership organisation which strives to uphold the voice of sex workers globally, and to connect regional networks advocating for the rights of female, male, and transgender sex workers. NSWP membership consists of local, national and regional sex worker-led organisations and networks across five regions: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America and the Caribbean.
NSWP’s work is based on three core values:
Acceptance of sex work as work.
Opposition to all forms of criminalisation and other legal oppression of sex work (including sex workers, clients, third parties, families, partners and friends).
Supporting self-organisation and self-determination of sex workers.
Please visit www.nswp.org
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW)
ADPWL has been a member of APNSW since 2020. APNSW is a regional sex worker rights network established by sex workers in 1994 at the International AIDS Conference held in Yokohama, Japan. Over the years, APNSW has successfully organized sex workers in over 22 countries, supported the establishment of sex worker groups, fostered solidarity among sex worker groups, established partnerships with other networks, and formalized itself into a registered organization.
Please visit www.apnsw.info
Share-Net International:
ADPWL has been a member of Share-Net International since 2022. Share-Net International is the leading knowledge platform for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Share-Net’s international network consists of non-governmental organizations, researchers, policy makers, implementers, advocates, students, media, and companies who operate in the SRHR field. Share-Net works closely with a wide range of partners internationally, and conducts many SRHR activities globally.
Please visit: www.share-netinternational.org