MEDIA RELEASES
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“VISAS FOR MIGRANT SEX WORKERS” 17 JUNE, 2009
“Up until now the Australian Government’s response to trafficking has been focussed on surveillance, detection and prosecution of trafficking.” said Elena Jeffreys, President, Scarlet Alliance. “It is vital that Australia makes the shift to a...
“No bad whores, just bad laws!” International Whores Day, Adelaide, 5 June 2009
As part of International Whores Day celebrations, Adelaide sex workers and their supporters’ including other sex industry staff, health professionals, friends, family and clients of sex workers will take to the streets of Adelaide on Friday afternoon 5th June...
“International Whores Day 2009: Sex Workers Take to the Streets to Fight Discrimination; Sex Workers Paying Too Much For Their Box; Bonking Not Good Enough for Banks” Scarlet Alliance, 2 June 2009
Sex workers are outraged that theyare being enormously overcharged for advertising. Sexworker Ivy McIntosh says “I’m paying too much for a measly two inches. Sex work is legal in NSW. Why am I charged hundreds of dollars toadvertise in local papers when...
“SEX WORKER REPRESENTATIVES CALL FOR KEY STAKEHOLDER RECOGNITION” Scarlet Alliance Media Release, 29 May 2009
“Scarlet Alliance welcomes the Sex Industry Offences Act 2005 review recommendations. Recognition that a funded sex worker organisation is desperately needed in Tasmania is supported by our own findings and previous government reports. Targeted resources on...
“SEX WORKERS CALL FOR A RED BAN ON THE RED SHIELD APPEAL” 22 May 2009
Scarlet Alliance has been contacted this morning by sex workers who are furious about the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal advertisement in today’s press. "The Salvation Army has shamefully chosen to capitalise on stigma against sex workers in its...
Scarlet Alliance: “Sex work is work, we deserve equal opportunity” 27th November 2008
Sex Workers Demand Anti-Discrimination Protections: Australian Sex Workers Association National Conference in Brisbane, November 2008 Scarlet Alliance, the Australian Sex Workers Association, holds its national meeting in Brisbane this week, with sex workers attending...
Decision to jail HIV positive sex worker by ACT magistrate John Burns appalling, says Australian Sex Workers Association, 16th September 2008
“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...
“HIV is a virus not a crime” Australian HIV Orgs Respond, 19 September 2008
"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...
“Tasmanian sex workers need better services.” Scarlet Alliance, 20 August 2008
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...
Scarlet Alliance Media Release: “Cambodian Sex Workers face Anti-Trafficking Violence” 23 June 08
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...
“South Australia Red Umbrella Event” Friday June 6th 2008, 5pm
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...
Scarlet Alliance Media Brief “Australias Anti-Trafficking Responses” 10 April 2008
1) Australia leads the world in sex worker health and human rightsDespite some 22,000 diagnoses of HIV infection in Australia, which means some 22,000 cases of HIV transmission, Australia has never recorded a single case of HIV transmission from sex worker to client...