by Tom | Oct 5, 2008 | Media release, News
“The jailing of a HIV positive sex worker is appalling. This charge under Section 25 of the Prostitution Act is for being a sex worker whilst having HIV – this same activity is not illegal across the border in NSW. For the judge to feel the need to make an...
by Tom | Oct 5, 2008 | Media release, News
"Australian HIV Organisations today demand decriminalisation of HIV, including sex work," Janelle Fawkes, CEO Scarlet Alliance, the Australian Sex Workers Association said today. The recent XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico (1) and the 20th Annual...
by Tom | Aug 24, 2008 | Media release, News
Scarlet Alliance, The Australian Sex Workers Association, is holding a community forum in Hobart on Friday August 22 to promote the need for better services for sex workers in Tasmania. "Some parts of the Tasmanian community maintain an out of date morality that...
by Tom | Jun 21, 2008 | Media release, News
A crisis in anti-trafficking measures in Cambodia has resulted in violence, rape and the deaths of sex workers in detention centres. As a result, the national HIV prevention programs for sex workers have completely broken down. Sex workers hold a vigil outside the...
by Tom | Jun 2, 2008 | Media release, News
As Part of International Whores Day, SIN is proud to support a red umbrella event. Sex workers, health workers, sex industry supporters and their friends and families will take to the streets. Dressed in costumes and wigs and carrying red umbrellas and placards, the...
