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Scarlet Alliance and SWOP NSW Joint Statement
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association and Sex Workers Outreach Project of NewSouth Wales (SWOP) extend our sincere condolences to those affected by the murder committed inyesterday’s Clarence Street attack in Sydney. The sex worker community is...
Sex Worker Workplace Health and Safety Symposium
‘80% of us work illegally, so we can be safe’, say Qld sex workers What: Policy Symposium to discuss Queensland sex work lawsWhere: Parliament House, BrisbaneWhen: 2–5pm, Wednesday 14 NovemberWho: Jules Kim, CEO, Scarlet Alliance○ Kiki Magenta, BA...
Scarlet Alliance, AFAO, AIDA, AIVL, ASHM, Hepatitis Australia, NAPWHA: National Strategies
Peak health and community organisations congratulate the Australian Government’s new National BBV and STI Strategies Peak HIV, viral hepatitis, sexual health and community organisations today welcomed the release of five new NationalBlood Borne Virus (BBV) and...
AIVL & Scarlet Alliance Joint Media Release
CUSTODIAL SETTINGS & DECRIMINALISATION OF SEX WORK FEATURE IN NEW NATIONAL BBV & STI STRATEGIES The Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) and Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association have welcomed the release of the five new...
Scarlet Alliance and SWOP NSW: VALE Roberta Perkins
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association and SWOP NSW mourn thepassing of academic, researcher, author and trans and sex worker rightsactivist Roberta Perkins. Roberta passed away yesterday afternoon 26th June,2018. Roberta Perkins lived and worked at the...
Joint Media Release, Scarlet Alliance, SWOP, ACT & AIDS Action Council
Sex workers welcome changes to the sex work regulations in the ACT. Today the ACT Government have introduced amendments to the Prostitution Act 1992. The changes have been welcomed by sex workers and advocates as a key step towards the recognition of sex work as work...
Scarlet Alliance and Vixen Collective: Sex workers slam Victorian Liberal Party support of harmful laws against sex workers
Yesterday the Victorian Liberal Party passed a motion to support the harmful Nordic Model of sex work regulation. The Nordic Model criminalises clients and the support structures of sex workers as well as isolating and harming sex workers. There is a mountain of...
HIV criminalisation stigmatises HIV and contributes to future HIV transmissions
Following a verdict handed down on 19/1/18 in the WA District Court, Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA), the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine...
HIV criminalisation stigmatises HIV and contributes to future HIV transmissions
Following a verdict handed down on 19/1/18 in the WA District Court, Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA), the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine...
Scarlet Alliance, Magenta and SWEAR: Stigma, Discrimination and Incarceration in a Male Prison for CJ Palmer
In WA district Court CJ Palmer, who had previously worked as a sex worker, has today received a guilty verdict for the charge of grievous bodily harm in relation to the transmission of HIV to her ex-partner. CJ, a trans woman, has been remanded in a male prison until...
Federal Budget: Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients Costly and Pointless, 10 May 2017, joint media release with AIVL, AFAO, NAPWHA and Scarlet Alliance
The Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL), Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA) and the Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association have warned that drug testing...
Sex Workers Applaud SA Select Committee Report on Decriminalisation of Sex Work Bill, joint media release with SIN and Scarlet Alliance
The South Australian Sex Industry Network (SIN) and Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association are today celebrating the decision of the South Australian Select Committee of the Legislative Council, to recommend the passing of the Statutes Amendment...