Sex Workers Alliance Ireland
  • Home
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • What We Do
    • Peer Research
    • Governance
  • Information for Sex Workers
    • COVID 19 INFO
    • The Law and Your Rights
    • Immigration & Asylum
      • Guide to Immigration Stamps in Ireland
    • Social Welfare and Housing
    • Healthcare in Ireland
      • Sexual Health Clinics and Services in Ireland
    • Support After Sexual Assault
    • Safety & Reporting Crime
    • Budgeting and Money
    • Education and Training
    • Finding other work
  • Latest News
    • Media
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
  • English
Select Page
Press statement: Public’s support of sex workers is not reflected in Ireland’s laws and policies

Press statement: Public’s support of sex workers is not reflected in Ireland’s laws and policies

Mar 2, 2020

Today SWAI marks it’s 10 year anniversary and reflects over the work we have done and the work we need to do.  Kate McGrew, current sex worker and director of the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) says “Since its inception in 2009 SWAI have sought to bring an...
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...

About

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

March 14, 2023 – Sex workers failed by law AGAIN
March 3, 2023 – International Sex Workers Rights Day
December 17, 2022 – Press release: Irish government is complicit in violence against sex workers
December 7, 2022 – Reclaim the Night Speech 2022
December 1, 2022 – Ominous texts from Gardaí scare sex workers during Days of activism against gender-based violence

Contact

3 + 8 =