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Elena Reynaga is a 67-year-old Argentine activist for sex workers' rights in Latin America. She was born on 28 July 1953 in Jujuy, Argentina. She is the founder of the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Sex Workers (REDLACTRASE) and the International Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE). Reynaga has been a sex worker since the age of 16 and has been an advocate for sex workers' rights since the 1980s. She has been a vocal advocate for the decriminalization of sex work and has been a leader in the fight against human trafficking. She has also been a strong advocate for the rights of LGBT people and has been a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Reynaga has been honored with numerous awards for her work, including the International Women's Day Award from the United Nations in 2008, the International Human Rights Award from the International Lesbian and Gay Association in 2009, and the International Human Rights Award from the International Commission of Jurists in 2010. She was also named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine in 2011.

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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 28 July 1953
Birthday 28 July
Birthplace Jujuy, Argentina
Nationality Argentina

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2009

In 2009, the Buenos Aires legislature recognised Reynaga as "Outstanding Public Figure for the Human Rights of Women" (in Spanish “Personalidad Destacada de los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres”). In 2014 she was recognised by the Argentinian Senate for her human rights work and leadership against discrimination and stigma, as well as the reclamation of female sex workers as workers. In 2016 she was elected onto a UN advisory board.

2008

Reynaga has also campaigned on issues related to health (HIV/AIDS) In 2008, she was the first to address the issue of sex worker's rights in a plenary session of the International AIDS Conference, where she asked for better working conditions, health care, recognition of sex work as work, and called on the audience to see sex workers not as the problem, but as "part of the solution".

1996

According to the organization, between 1996 and 2001, 41 member of AMMAR were murdered. AMMAR operates as a trade union and since 1995 it has been an affiliated member of the Argentine Workers' Central Union (Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina). AMMAR has also been part of RedTraSex since 1997; Reynaga has been its Executive Secretary since 1999. The organization works for the defence, promotion, recognition and respect for human rights of sex workers in fifteen countries. Reynaga co-edited Un Movimiento de Tacones Altos (The High Heels Movement) a manual for the defense of sex workers' rights published in 2007.

1994

Reynaga became a sex worker at 19. After being a victim of institutional violence and experiencing imprisonment multiple times in Argentinar, she travelled to work in Spain for a time. She returned to Argentina and founded AMMAR in 1994 in response to police harassment and violence.

1953

Elena Eva Reynaga (born 1953 in Jujuy) is an Argentinian former sex worker and women human rights defender who campaigns for the rights of sex workers. She is a founding member of Association of Women Sex Workers in Argentina (Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de la Argentina, AMMAR) and Executive Secretary of the Network of Women Sex workers of Latina America and the Caribbean (Red de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales de Latinoamérica y Caribe, RedTraSex).