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Link to membership information and download the form. Be part of history! Join up today! Who can join? Sex workers, past and present, who support and agree to the Scarlet Alliance Objectives. Sex industry business owners and operators are not eligible for membership.

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NEW International Sex Worker Harm Reduction Caucus 2008 Statement Download, 200k

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Sex Workers represented at the 2020 Summit in Canberra The Scarlet Alliance President, Elena Jeffreys, attended the Rudd Government 2020 Summit in Canberra, April 19-20. Our president raised migrant sex worker issues within the regional security and national prosperity stream. Link to more on migrant sex worker issues.

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TRUTH AND VISAS WILL SET ASIAN SEX WORKERS FREE The stereotype of the Asian sex slave captures the Australian imagination. When Puangthong Simaplee died in immigration detention in 2001, a story emerged of a girl trafficked to Australia at the age of 12 and forced to have sex as a slave. Her story was given under duress, after the Department of Immigration had taken her into detention, during the first phases of the pneumonia that eventually killed her...Link to full story and have your say on the Sydney Morning Herald discussion boards.

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HIV Positive Sex Worker Needs Analysis PROJECT!- Click here to read more

NEW ON THE SCARLET ALLIANCE WEBSITE Photo's from Mardi Gras 2008 A group of rowdy and excitable Scarlet Alliance crew, Touching Base, People With Disability, and supporters joined together to march in the 2008 Mardi Gras. more...

NEW CAMPAIGNS BY AND FOR MALE WORKERS. NEW WEBSITE - ScarletMen. (above) A joint project of Scarlet Alliance and the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations. Currently being promoted on gaydar.com.au NEW CAMPAIGN - Up Your Bum. (right) A joint project of SWOP NSW and ACON.

NEWSFLASH!!! SEX WORKERS DEMAND INDUSTRY REGULATION - NSW A small group of sex workers have staged a protest outside a conference in Sydney, calling for the implementation of Department of Planning guidelines on the regulation of the sex industry. The group says a panel of health, planning and local government officials developed the guidelines in consultation with the sex industry. The Sex Worker Rights Action Coalition says the Land and Environment Court has made it clear that brothel developments can not be blocked on moral grounds. An independent sex worker, Saul Isbister, says the guidelines would help councils to regulate the industry, without compromising the safety of sex workers. "The guidelines recommend that councils permit all types and scales of sex-industry premises in their natural locations," he said. "That means home-based sex workers in residential areas, and commercial premises in commercial areas - a very logical position to take." Link to ABC Online article

Multi-Lingual and Cross Cultural sex worker project in UK gets sex workers talking! Link to project summary http://x-talk.blogspot.com/ x: talk – is an important new network of sex workers, sex workers rights', and migrants' rights activists who are organising a project that involves the development, co-ordination and delivery of non-commercial English classes for workers in the sex industry in London. International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW). Link to recent media on x: talk Link

X: talk brings migrant sex workers into contact with each other in a non-work environment, where they can talk together while learning English and making new networks. The free English classes will put into action critiques on contemporary “trafficking” approaches, by bringing migrant sex workers together to share skills. Current approaches to "trafficking" produce criminalisation, victimisation and exploitation of migrants and workers in the sex industry.

updated 30 April 08