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Press release: Sex workers lives at risk amid fear of reporting assaults due to bad and misguided legislation

Press release: Sex workers lives at risk amid fear of reporting assaults due to bad and misguided legislation

Nov 14, 2019

Both sex workers and Gardaí have known about these criminals for some time but sex workers refuse to contact the Garda because trust in Gardaí is at an all-time low since the law changed in 2017.  “The increased assaults and robberies on sex workers currently being...

Press release: ‘Swedish Model’ promotes harassment and is failing to deter sex workers or clients, says co-author of new Northern Ireland study

Oct 6, 2019

A major surge in harassment of sex workers following the introduction of the so-called ‘Swedish Model’ in Northern Ireland was among the main findings in a review of the impact of the legislation, Dr Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill, co-author of a report commissioned for the...
Press Release: Today’s actions will decrease trust in Gardaí for already marginalised sex workers

Press Release: Today’s actions will decrease trust in Gardaí for already marginalised sex workers

Sep 27, 2019

Kate McGrew, current sex worker and spokesperson for the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland(SWAI)  said “The criminalisation of client law was brought in with great fanfare over 2 years ago but, as yet, has only seen two men prosecuted for the purchase of sex in Ireland. It...
Press release: Jailing a pregnant, migrant sex worker yesterday shows we have not moved away from our dark past

Press release: Jailing a pregnant, migrant sex worker yesterday shows we have not moved away from our dark past

Jun 8, 2019

Kate McGrew, current sex worker and director of the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI), said “The Sex Workers Alliance are horrified to learn of the jailing of two sex workers at Naas District Court yesterday, one of whom is pregnant, less than one week after...
Press release: Gardaí questions 36 men but many more sex workers have been arrested

Press release: Gardaí questions 36 men but many more sex workers have been arrested

Apr 29, 2019

Gardaí should protect the most vulnerable. Instead our laws put marginalised people in danger and waste precious Garda resources.   Kate McGrew, director of SWAI and currently working sex worker said “36 men have been questioned over purchase of sex in the past few...
Press release: Government need to face facts and decriminalise sex work for our safety

Press release: Government need to face facts and decriminalise sex work for our safety

Mar 27, 2019

We all deserve to work in safety, access health services and paths to justice. Since the enactment of the 2017 law, sex workers are less safe. Violent crime against sex workers has increased by 92% in the past 2 years.  Kate McGrew, sex worker and director of Sex...

press release: One prosecution for man caught up in raid shows law is not fit for purpose

Jan 21, 2019

ess releasem Kate McGrew, director of Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) says “This man was caught procuring sex during a raid on a so-called brothel, when two or more workers work together. This case yet against highlights how the law is being used against workers...

Press Release: Normalised violence against some of societies most vulnerable due to policing of sex work

Dec 12, 2018

Since the laws have been introduced there have been 55 people arrested for prostitution offences, but only 2 of them are clients. Garda resources are already stretched without having to police consensual acts between a sex worker and their client.    Sex Workers...

Latest News

January 10, 2021 – Outdoor Sex Work and COVID-19 resource

December 17, 2020 – Structural and actual violence against sex workers did not end under COVID

December 12, 2020 – Candlelit vigil to mark International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Sex Workers 17th Dec 6:30pm

November 25, 2020 – SWAI statement on leaked nudes 

October 14, 2020 – Press Release: “It’s a brothel. I’ll end you!” – chilling words of a man who attacked two sex workers

Press Releases

Structural and actual violence against sex workers did not end under COVID

“It’s a brothel. I’ll end you!” – chilling words of a man who attacked two sex workers together

Another migrant worker guilty of working with another worker

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons highlights Ireland’s failure

Review will show that the current law is a failed experiment

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SWAI supports the self-determination of all sex workers to be given a voice and allowed to speak on their own behalf. We support a harm reduction policy in relation to sex work and that sex workers should be granted the same rights as all other workers.

Mission Statement: To promote the social inclusion, health, safety, civil rights and the right to self determination of female, male, cisgender and transgender sex workers.

Latest News

January 10, 2021 – Outdoor Sex Work and COVID-19 resource
December 17, 2020 – Structural and actual violence against sex workers did not end under COVID
December 12, 2020 – Candlelit vigil to mark International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Sex Workers 17th Dec 6:30pm
November 25, 2020 – SWAI statement on leaked nudes 
October 14, 2020 – Press Release: “It’s a brothel. I’ll end you!” – chilling words of a man who attacked two sex workers

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