Anna-Louise Crago is aCanadianactivist,researcher and author in the field ofSex workers' rights. She has also researched violence and otherhuman rights abuses againstsex workers, thehomeless anddrug addicts in more than 25 countries.^[1] Crago is a former sex worker,^[2] and has had several works published.

Crago worker as aprostitute for several yearson the streets inMontréal, and in indoor locations in Montréal,Gatineau,Toronto andNiagara Falls.^[2] She joinedStella, l’amie de Maimie, a Montréal organisation run by, and for, sex workers, later becoming their coordinator of health, legal and social services.^[3] She was part of the team that received the AIDS Action Award in 2006, awarded by theNGOHuman Rights Watch^[4] and leadingadvocacy organization,Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.^[5]

She spoke out strongly against the Prostitution Bill (Bill C-36) proposed by theStephen Harper government, including attending protests^[6] and making a written submission to theSenate of Canada.^[2] Since the bill passed into law Crago has campaigned for its repeal.^[7] She also campaigns fordecriminalizing sex work globally.^[8]

Crago received aBFA in 2003 and anMA in 2010, both fromConcordia University in Montreal.^[5] She was granted aTrudeau Foundation Scholarship in 2013 to pursue research on the experience of sex workers duringarmed conflict in theDemocratic Republic of the Congo. She is currently aPhD candidate and Trudeau scholar at theUniversity of Toronto,^[7] researching sex work, violence and law and policy.^[2]

In 2009 Crago co-ordinated and was the lead author^[1] in research organised the Sex Workers' Rights Advocacy Network to study police violence against sex workers inEurope andCentral Asia.^[9][10]

Crago was involved as an expert during the 2012 preparation of theWorld Health Organization'sRecommendations for Female, Male and Transgender Sex Workers.^[2][1]

The Lancet produced a special issue for theXX International AIDS Conference, 2014. Crago was the co-editor and also co-author of the articleAn action agenda for HIV and sex workers^[11] and co-author ofHuman rights violations against sex workers: burden and effect on HIV,^[12] both articles appearing in this edition.^[2]

• 2006AIDS Action Award (co-recipient)^[5]
• 2016Canadian Governor General’s Award for advancing sex workers’ human rights and gender equality.^[7][13]

• "Queer & Young & So Much Else".Canadian Woman Studies.16 (2):15–17. 1 April 1996.ISSN 0713-3235.
• "Rights Not Rescue: A Report on Female, Trans, and Male Sex Workers' Human Rights in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa".Open Society Foundations. 2008. co-author Jayne Arnott
• "Our Lives Matter: Sex Workers Unite for Health and Rights". Open Society Foundations. 2008.
• "Arrest the Violence: Human Rights Violations Against Sex Workers in 11 Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia". Sex Workers' Rights Advocacy Network. 2009.
• Ne dans le Redlight: The Sex Workers' Movement in Montreal inMeulen, Emily Van der; Durisin, Elya M.; Love, Victoria, eds. (2013).Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada. UBC Press.ISBN 9780774824484. co-author: Jenn Clamen
• Beyrer, Chris; Crago, Anna-Louise; Bekker, Linda-Gail; Butler, Jenny; Shannon, Kate; Kerrigan, Deanna; Decker, Michele R.; Baral, Stefan D.; Poteat, Tonia; Wirtz, Andrea L.; Weir, Brian W.; Barré-Sinoussi, Françoise; Kazatchkine, Michel; Sidibé, Michel; Dehne, Karl-Lorenz; Boily, Marie-Claude; Strathdee, Steffanie A. (21 July 2014)."An action agenda for HIV and sex workers".The Lancet.385 (9964):287–301.doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60933-8.ISSN 0140-6736.PMC 4302059.PMID 25059950. co-authors: ProfChris Beyrer, MD, ProfLinda-Gail Bekker, PhD et al.
• Decker, Michele R.; Crago, Anna-Louise; Chu, Sandra K H.; Sherman, Susan G.; Seshu, Meena S.; Buthelezi, Kholi; Dhaliwal, Mandeep; Beyrer, Chris (21 July 2014)."Human rights violations against sex workers: burden and effect on HIV".The Lancet.385 (9963):186–199.doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60800-X.ISSN 0140-6736.PMC 4454473.PMID 25059943. co-authors Dr Michele R Decker, ScD, Sandra K H Chu, LLM et al.
• Crago, Anna-Louise (2014). ""Bitches Killing the Nation": Analyzing the Violent State-Sponsored Repression of Sex Workers in Zambia, 2004–2008".Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.39 (2):365–381.doi:10.1086/673087.ISSN 0097-9740.JSTOR 10.1086/673087.S2CID 147278016.

• Canadian sex worker activists
• First Nations activists
• Concordia University alumni
• University of Toronto alumni
• 21st-century First Nations people
• Living people
• Canadian female prostitutes
• First Nations academics
• Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case winners

• CS1 French-language sources (fr)
• Year of birth missing (living people)