The World Assembly,
Recognising the unfair discrimination, sexual assault, and poor working conditions sex workers have long been subject to solely due to their field of employment, as well as the greater risk of sexually transmitted infections sex workers and clients thereof face,
Emphasising that prosecution of sex work is also unhelpful towards protecting sex workers, as it forces sex workers to work “underground” for fear of prosecution of themselves and/or loss of job, at the expense of their safety and welfare, while also perpetuating stigmatisation of the sex industry,
Identifying the efforts of “Universal STI Counteraction” as ultimately helpful to the protection of sex workers via access to STI testing and curative medications for STIs,
Believing that further efforts are still needed, however, to specifically protect sex workers and ensure that sex work is safe for employees, consumers, and all others involved, as there are still no resolutions passed tailored to the sex industry,
Enacts as follows, subject to past World Assembly law still in force.
- In this resolution, “sex work” refers to the performance of sexual acts in exchange for material compensation. Further, a “state” is a member nation or any administrative or political subdivision thereof.
- Every state must treat employment and self-employment in sex work as a legitimate form of employment and self-employment; and accordingly treat sex work, including acts of performing, providing employment in, and purchasing the same, equally to all other legitimate forms of employment and self-employment in that state, subject to this resolution.
- Each member nation must offer free and safe medical products preventing STI transmission – including vaccination and barrier contraception – to all individuals under its jurisdiction consistently at risk of exposure to sexually-transmitted infections as a result of their employment or self-employment as a sex worker. A member nation may delegate this responsibility to its political or administrative subdivisions, so long as coverage over the entire jurisdiction of that member nation is achieved.
- If a state demonstrates in good faith to the General Accounting Office that it is unable to fund compliance with this mandate without causing serious damage to its economy or finances, that state shall receive funds from the World Assembly General Fund assessed by the General Accounting Office to aid the state in funding these products. States may not use such funds for any purpose other than funding such provision of these products.
- Sex workers and sex work clients are strongly urged to use such products in any sex work carrying risk of either pregnancy of, or transmission of sexually transmitted infections to, the client or sex worker in question, so as to minimise such risk.
- No person or entity may employ in sex work, consume sex work from, or sell sex work to a person who (i) lacks the mental capacity to consent to sexual acts, (ii) has not consented to said sex work, or (iii) is under the age of majority in a state of jurisdiction.
- Every state must address violations of sexual autonomy within the scope of sex work with the same haste and severity as such violations committed outside of the scope of the same. Further, each state must address hate crime and violence against an individual motivated by that individual’s employment or self-employment as a sex worker with the same haste and severity as any other like hate crime declared under relevant national or international law.