A group of sex workers organizations and sex work support organizations committed to the cause of sex workers had come together in 2005 to forge a network of sex workers named National Network of Sex workers (NNSW).
The primary objective of the network was to articulate the voices of sex workers and let it be heard across the country.
Over the years NNSW and its member organizations went through several campaigns / movements to raise their issues both at State and regional levels.
This informal grouping was formally registered as All India Network of Sex workers (AINSW) in the year 2011.
AINSW envisions a world wherein sex work is recognized as work, a world that is just and has no laws that criminalize sex work where adult women, men and transgender persons in sex work have the right to earn and live through the exchange of sexual services.
To challenge the hegemony of mainstream attitudes towards sex work that is embodied in social practices, laws and public opinion so that all persons in sex work become free to practice different relational forms outside conventional heterosexual marriage and family.