The Canadian Organisation for the Rights of Prostitutes (CORP), the Dutch Red Thread and HYDRA in Germany also assumed significant roles in the movement.

[7] The Charter established a human rights-based approach, which has subsequently been further elaborated by the sex workers' rights movement.

[10] The resolution passed (234 votes in favour, 175 against and 122 abstentions) on 14 September 2023, but its most controversial parts were removed, including references advocating the Nordic model approach to prostitution, because sex workers from ESWA and its members, human rights defenders, and medical experts such as The Lancet have said the Nordic model actually increases violence and dicrimination against sex workers, leaves them more excluded from society and more vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections such as HIV/AIDS.

[11][12] According to ESWA executive director Sabrina Sanchez, 'The vote demonstrates that despite the onslaught of anti-rights attacks on sex workers and other marginalised groups, Europe is increasingly in favour of rights-respecting solutions to violence against our communities.

'[12] ESWA director of programmes Luca Stevenson (himself a former sex worker) stated that the Nordic model is "extremely anti-feminist" and "ignores the capacities of women and other people to make decisions about their own life.