Conference about Prostitution Sunday, June 28, 1998
La Traverse, Maison de quartier des Pâquis
50, rue de Berne, 1201 Genève

This conference is specifically addressed to people directly involved with prostitution, either personally or because they work for an associations or organization directly concerned with prostitution.

Participants coming from more than 30 countries will attend the Conference. The format is designed in order for participants to exchange and share their experience.

Sitting capacity is limited to 150. Each association and organization receives a limited number of invitations to allow better representatively. If you wish to have additional invitations you may apply to Aspasie without delay and justify your request. A waiting list will be established.

Participants are strongly invited to bring documents (printed material or videos) describing their activities. The documents will be exposed during the conference.

Registration fee:
50 CHF to be paid on site.

Included: plenary sessions and workshops, lunch, abstract book.

Persons who are not able to pay, please contact Aspasie for an arrangement.

Registration to the conference about prostitution, June 28, La Traverse Important!
Registration to be returned
no later than June 15, 1998

To fill out this form, copy and paste this form into an e-mail. aspasie@span.ch. (Drag your cursor over the text to select it.)

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Program

9:00 to 9:30 - Registration (coffee, tea, tartines)

9:30 to 10:00 - Welcome

10:00 to 12:30 - Plenary sessions:

  • The situation in Moscow: setting up a health project for sexworkers and preliminary results. Lucy Platt

  • The HIV spread risk in Hungary: the role of clients and sexworkers. John Davies

  • The situation in India: the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a network organization of 30 000 sexworkers. Smarajit Jana

  • The situation of sexworkers in South Africa: a health promotion program. Shane Anthony Petzer

12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch

14:00 to 16:00 - Workshops, in French (F) or English (E):

  • Sexworkers, clients and safer-sex (F)
  • The role of sexworkers and non-sexworkers in health projects (F)
  • Health promotion and transgenders (F)
  • Health promotion and migrant sexworkers (F)
  • The profession of sexworker (E)
  • Migration and traffics (E)
  • Human rights (E)

16:00 to 16:30 - Break

16:30 to 18:30 - Plenary debriefing

18:30 - Conclusion

19:00 - Press conference

Plenary sessions will be simultaneously translated in French and English.

This program is not definitive; it might be subject to last minute modifications. It was elaborated on the basis of suggestions made by more than a hundred participants. It is our hope that the presentations will be representative of the global situation, beyond local specificity.

Association ASPASIE,
10 rue Charles Cusin,
1201 Genève, Suisse
Tel: (41) 22 732 68 28
Fax: (41) 22 731 02 48
E-Mail: aspasie@span.ch
Web: www.prevention.ch/aspasie.htm

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Created: May 27, 1998
Last modified: July 11, 1998

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