In order to be able to actively contribute to the processes of creating policies and practices that target sex work specifically, we have carried out consultations among our community, at which we overviewed three major models for sex work regulation: The Nordic Model; Sex Work Legalization Model and Decriminalization and De-Penalization Model.
Upon the consultation that we carried out, the decriminalization and de-penalization model is unanimously selected as the most appropriate model that leads to legal recognition of sex work as work and entitles sex workers to the rights and freedoms provided in the Constitution and the legislature in the Republic of North Macedonia.
Having the sex workers community’s viewpoints into consideration, as well as the recommendations by the United Nations for decriminalizing voluntary sex work and the activities that stem from it, we advocate for legal regulation that would protect sex workers’ human rights and minimize discrimination, stigma, public judgement and prejudice.
Download/read the COLLECTIVE POSITION of STAR – the First Sex Workers’ Collective in the Balkans with regard to the legal regulation of sex work in the Republic of North Macedonia at the following LINK.