Policy and legal frameworks of sex work
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This presentation was given by Christian Vega, Ari Reid and Janelle Fawkes (Scarlet Alliance) at the AFAO HIV Educators Conference 2010.
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Policy and legal frameworks of sex work
- 1. Policy and Legal Frameworks of Sex Work And it’s impact on our work Christian Vega Ari Reid Janelle Fawkes
- 4. Sex work legal models Criminalisation Legalisation Decriminalisation
- 5. Australian sex work laws, 2010 Prohibition Licensing Decriminalisation
- 21. Peer Education Input by sex workers Sex Worker Organisation/ project State & Territory Commonwealth Government Policy media Community education resources Policy feedback loop
Editor's Notes
- Sex Workers believe the sexual activity between consenting adults is not the jurisdiction of any government agency. This has been reflected in motions passed by the government in the past and to act contrarily would be seen as a reversal of progress. In 1973, then Prime Minister John Gorton proposes a motion that is passed by the House Of Representatives “That … homosexual acts between consenting adults in private should not be subject to the criminal law”. This was beginning of recognition of the rights of the GLBTIQA community. While this example does not refer specifically to sex work, the same civil liberties can be applied to sex workers and their clients. These human rights extend to all; to suggest that we, sex workers, should are not entitled to the same is a form of discrimination. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~victorp/part5a03.htm
- Sex worker organisations/projects and sex workers are the obvious choice to inform sex industry policy Sex workers are the experts As identified by Terry in opening this symposium government is recognising our role in advocating on behalf of sex workers – the partnership approach is not only successful in HIV policy development other areas of government are catching on. But it must be resourced. That means including advocacy within contracts. That means recognising that as community based organisations we need to consult effectively with our communities – that must be resourced. And it means recognising that community engagement/community development are core to the work of sex worker organisations in order that we are not working in isolation and not informed by sex workers. And it means having policy staff in our organisations. It also means the funding sex work governance of sex worker organisations to ensure the leadership is there to effectively do advocacy. It particularly means state governments recognising the benefit of supporting sex worker community based organisations for resourcing over (what is mistakenly seen as the safer option) of general tendering for who will deliver sex worker peer education services as this (as i showed in my originally diagram) is where the sex worker input that informs effective advocacy comes from in a sex worker community based organisation. Equally if its not working we need to advocate