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

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

Oct 14, 2020

Today the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) learned that two sex workers working together for safety were attacked precisely because they were, in the eyes of the law, working illegally.  Two workers were sharing a premises in Limerick when a client refused to...

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...

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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

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

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