Game Information
| Title | Cops and Rubbers |
| Presenter(s) | Lien Tran |
| Session | Conference Reception, Game Exhibition, and Poster Session |
| Time | Thursday, October 16, 7:00p-10:00p |
| Location | Ballroom |
| Format | Game Exhibition |
| Description | Sex workers across the world must often make a dangerous choice between protecting their health and avoiding police harassment or arrest. In many countries, police treat condoms as contraband, confiscating or destroying condoms they find on sex workers during both legal and illegal searches. Prosecutors may use confiscated condoms as criminal evidence of prostitution.
Cops & Rubbers (opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/cops-rubbers) is a board game designed for Open Society Foundations for use by health and human rights advocates, health practitioners, academics, and policymakers that demonstrates the real consequences of these policing tactics for sex workers ' including increased vulnerability to HIV infection. For more information about the dangers of treating condoms as evidence, please visit the Open Society Foundations website: opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/criminalizing-condoms Game video: http://vimeo.com/lienbtran/cops-and-rubbers-promo |