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 "Some parts of the Tasmanian community maintain an out of date morality that...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...
“VICTORIAN SEX WORKERS JOIN NATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF ACT GOVERNMENT” 12 Feb 08
VIXEN, the Victorian Sex Industry Network, condemns the actions of the ACT government in relation to the recent charges against a male sex worker. VIXEN spokesperson Ms Tamsin Baker said, “The decision by the ACT’s Chief Health Officer, Charles Guest, to...
“SEX WORK POSES NO RISK: Money Is Not A Health Risk” 7 Feb 08
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, calls for changes to S. 25 of the ACT Prostitution Act and an investigation into actions by health officials in relation to this case. Today, the ACT Magistrates Court heard charges against a sex worker under...
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“Pos Worker Won’t Get Fair Trial” 31 Jan 08
Recently a male sex worker was charged in the ACT under the Prostitution Act on two accounts. “At this stage we do not know if the person is guilty of the charges laid. Mr Scott has pleaded not guilty and deserves and is entitled to a fair trial.” Janelle...