Aliya Rakhmetova was born in Kazakhstan. She received her first degree in teaching English and Kazakh in Kazakhstan and her MA in Gender studies in Central European University, Hungary. For 4 years she has been a coordinator for the Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN), which is a network of civil society organizations engaged in advocating the human rights of the sex workers in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Being with SWAN, she uses her teaching and foreign language experience as well as interest in gender issues and information technology in advocating for the human rights for sex workers. She believes that press has great influence and power over society in forming attitudes and seeing reality in a certain way. That is why NGOs and media should cooperate in order to use this power to create a safer and more just world for all of us.