TAMPEP (European Network for the Promotion of Rights and Health among Migrant Sex Workers) is an international organisation that supports the health and human rights of migrant worker in Europe.Margaret Ducket, Migrants' Right to Health, UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, March 2001
TAMPEP originally stood for "Transnational AIDS/STD prevention amongst Migrant Prostitutes in Europe Project"; "STD" was later changed to "STI". The organisation has changed its self-description several times over the years: By 2004, it presented itself as the "European Network for Transnational AIDS/STD Prevention among Migrant Prostitutes"; as of 2019, it calls itself the "European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers".
TAMPEP states that in 2017, it was re-structured into a "migrant sex worker-led network that unites sex worker groups and allies in the fields of sex work, migration, and health. The purpose of the network is to build stronger partnerships, and to advocate for the rights and health of migrant and mobile sex workers at the European level".
TAMPEP's literature emphasises the need to cleanly distinguish between the issues of trafficking, sex work, and Human migration. TAMPEP opposes trafficking as a human rights abuse, but supports efforts to improve working conditions of sex workers and to facilitate migration. TAMPEP Position Paper on Migration and Sex Work (2002), retrieved 4 October 2009
TAMPEP has also operated in Nigeria, where it helps to rehabilitate sex workers deported from Italy.
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