Every year on 2nd of June, we celebrate the International Sex Workers’ Day. This day’s history goes back to 1975, when over 100 sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, France, to express their anger about their criminalised and exploitative living conditions. On 10 June at 5 o’clock the Church was brutally raided by police forces. This action sparked a national movement, and the day is now celebrated in Europe and around the world.
On this occasion, STAR-STAR – The first sex workers collective in the Balkans will organize an Open Day for a visit on 06.06.2019 (Thursday), from 12:00 AM to 17:00 PM. Within this Open Day, STAR-STAR in its office will provide various presentations of the STAR-STAR’s activities and projects, research, publications, magazines, outreach results as well as sharing useful information about the current situation of sex workers and the impact of the movement of sex workers in our country and around the world.
Visitors will have the opportunity to get acquainted with STAR-STAR’s mission, vision, values and activities as well as more than 10 years of work of the sex workers community in North Macedonia.
The day is intended for all students in the Republic of North Macedonia, but is also a great opportunity for those who want to learn more about the programs and activities developed and implemented by the sex workers themselves.
We hope that to all visitors we will be able to convey our strong faith in building an open and solidarity society, in which diversity is respected.
Your presence at the Open Day on the occasion to mark the International Sex Workers’ Day will be a great honor for us.
Please, for more information and registration of visitors, contact us at the following email addresses: star.contact@yahoo.com