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Congratulations to our incredible colleagues in Scotland for Decrim for this hard-fought victory. Sex workers in Scotland demanded to be heard, and (some) politicians listened. Particular thanks to our stalwart champion @maggiechapman.bsky.social for her support!

End the criminalisation of sex work The evidence is clear: criminalisation makes sex workers less safe.

Can everyone please write to their MP and ask them to attend the @decrimnow.bsky.social parliament session. Sex work should be decriminalised. The Nordic model that is being proposed puts SWers at higher risk of violence and exploitation, we need full decrim! decrim-email.netlify.app

Once you’ve emailed your MP, share this post with your followers, friends, and duo partners, so they can email their MP too.

Sex workers need safety. Sex workers need full decriminalisation now. Sex workers need you to take action.

Once you’ve emailed your MP, share this post with your followers, friends, and duo partners, so they can email their MP too.

Sex workers need safety.

Sex workers need full decriminalisation now.

Sex workers need you to take action.

It’s up to you to email your MP and tell them to attend the drop-in session, and engage with sex workers’ about full decriminalisation. The more of you that email your MP, the higher the likelihood they’ll attend.

It’s up to you to email your MP and tell them to attend the drop-in session, and engage with sex workers’ about full decriminalisation. The more of you that email your MP, the higher the likelihood they’ll attend. Use this tool: decrim-email.netlify.app, enter postcode & send.

Email your MP! Like, right now!

Decrim Now are hosting a drop-in session in Parliament on the 20th January. This is a vital opportunity for us to lobby MPs to support full decriminalisation and sex workers’ rights. But to make this a success, you need to take action.

Email your MP! Like, right now! Decrim Now are hosting a drop-in session in Parliament on the 20th January. This is a vital opportunity for us to lobby MPs to support full decriminalisation and sex workers’ rights. But to make this a success, you need to take action.

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Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. We honour all sex workers who have been subjected to violence, murdered or died as a result of criminalisation, stigma, and discrimination. These acts of violence are hate crimes. We honour them by: fighting policy failures challenging all unjust laws exposing the violent actions of governments maintaining the legacy of community-led activism built around the peers we have lost, campaigning to end the violence of Border Force against Asian migrant sex workers. Strength and solidarity from Respect Inc, SWOP NT, SIN, SWOP NSW, Magenta, SWEAR, SWOP ACT, Scarlet Alliance, Touching Base, ATSISWAG and AMSWAG

State violence actively harms sex workers.Criminalisation of our work creates barriers to justice and impunity for offenders committing violence against us. Border Force raids cause profound and lasting trauma for sex workers, workplaces, and communities. Racial profiling of Asian migrant sex workers at the border results in immigration detention. It exposes migrant sex workers, particularly trans women, to significant risks of physical and sexual violence, including denial of medical care and deportation to danger. Street-based sex workers in every jurisdiction except NT and QLD continue to face arrest and ‘move-on’ notices. Working privately with a friend for safety and support is still criminalised in the ACT, SA and WA.

We cannot end this violence without dismantling colonialism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and patriarchy, and ending poverty and the criminalisation of drugs.

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. We honour all sex workers who have been murdered or have died as a result of criminalisation, stigma, and discrimination. Read our briefing papers at linktr.ee/scarlet_alliance

If you want to support sex workers in our fight for safety, you can email your MP using the template email in our bio Sign up to our newsletter on our website and keep up to date with the situation for sex workers rights in the UK.

If you want to support sex workers in our fight for safety, you can:

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The briefing was co-signed by the following organisations: National AIDs trust, BHIVA, The Love Tank CIC, St Georges House Trust, Blue Sky Trust, African Advocacy Foundation, Naz Project London, Sophia Forum, Phoenix Health Movement, Embrace UK, Positively UK, Positive East, One Voice Network

The briefing was co-signed by the following organisations @nat.org.uk @bhiva.bsky.social @positivelyuk.bsky.social @sophiaforum.bsky.social @positiveeast.bsky.social @nazprojectlondon.bsky.social @phoenixhealthm.bsky.social

We’ve written a briefing on sex work decriminalisation and ending HIV, which you can read on our website: https://decrimnow.org.uk/2025/12/03/briefing-sex-work-decriminalisation-and-ending-hiv/

We’ve written a briefing on sex work decriminalisation and ending HIV, which you can read on our website: decrimnow.org.uk/2025/12/03/b...

If the government wants to reach it’s target to reduce new HIV transmissions in England to zero by 2030, they must end the criminalisation of sex work.

If the government wants to reach it’s target to reduce new HIV transmissions in England to zero by 2030, they must end the criminalisation of sex work.

Globally, any criminalisation of sex work is opposed by public health organisations, including the World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, Medecins du Monde, AIDS Action Europe, Global Commission on HIV and the Law, and European AIDS Treatment Group.

Globally, any criminalisation of sex work is opposed by public health organisations, including the World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, Medecins du Monde, AIDS Action Europe, Global Commission on HIV and the Law, and European AIDS Treatment Group.

Research published in The Lancet estimated that full decriminalisation would reduce new HIV infections by up to 46% over a ten year period.

They named full decriminalisation of sex work as the single intervention that would have the greatest impact on limiting new HIV infections, and helping those who already live with HIV to access treatment and support.

UNAIDS’ Global AIDS Strategy calls for the removal of all punitive and discriminatory laws on sex work. They named full decriminalisation of sex work as the single intervention that would have the greatest impact on limiting new HIV infections, and helping those who already live with HIV to access treatment and support.

UNAIDS’ Global AIDS Strategy calls for the removal of all punitive and discriminatory laws on sex work.

Criminalisation of sex work leads to greater barriers to accessing testing, treatment, care and support. If sex workers fear being reported to the police, they are far less likely to engage with healthcare and other support services, including HIV testing and access safer sex supplies like condoms.

Criminalisation of sex work leads to greater barriers to accessing testing, treatment, care and support. If sex workers fear being reported to the police, they are far less likely to engage with healthcare and other support services, including HIV testing and access safer sex supplies like condoms.

Sex workers who are more vulnerable and experiencing higher levels of poverty are less able to insist on safer sex practices such as using condoms.

Police have used carrying condoms as evidence that someone is a sex worker, leading to fines and arrests.

Any criminalisation of sex work doubles sex workers’ likelihood of acquiring HIV.

Criminalisation of sex work leads to reduced condom notes. Sex workers who are more vulnerable and experiencing higher levels of poverty are less able to insist on safer sex practices such as using condoms. Police have used carrying condoms as evidence that someone is a sex worker, leading to fines and arrests.

Any criminalisation of sex work doubles sex workers’ likelihood of acquiring HIV.

Criminalisation of sex work leads to reduced condom notes.

Sex work decriminalisation saves lives.

The government had adopted the UNAIDs target to reduce new HIV transmissions in England to zero by 2030. But evidence shows that the government targets on HIV cannot be met while the criminalisation of sex work continues.

Sex work decriminalisation saves lives.

The government had adopted the UNAIDs target to reduce new HIV transmissions in England to zero by 2030. But evidence shows that the government targets on HIV cannot be met while the criminalisation of sex work continues.

This year @decrimnow.bsky.social researched the reasons why sex workers in England and Wales are currently entering and remaining in the industry.

Read the full report by here: decrimnow.org.uk/2025/10/30/d...

#16DaysOfActivism #SexWorkIsWork

Workers4Decrim The Sex Workers’ Union, formed in 2018, is a trade union building collective power among strippers, porn performers, online sex workers and full-service sex workers. SWU has made some impressive la…

If you cannot attend the event, but still want to take action to support sex workers you can:

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We need trade union members to take action with us, and support sex workers in accessing the same labour rights and protections as other workers.

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Some Labour MPs are pushing for further criminalisation of sex work. We know this will only increase poverty and violence against sex workers.

Sex workers need rights, not criminalisation.

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Under any form of criminalisation, sex workers are unable to access the same basic labour rights and protections afforded to all other workers.

This leaves us acutely vulnerable to exploitative labour practices, as we are unable to access the means to challenge them.

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A red faded background with a black and white photo of a person in a fluffy hat holding a sign that says “sex work is work.” Over the top of the image, there is text that says: DECRIM NOW PRESENTS EVENT SEX WORK IS A TRADE UNION ISSUE WITH SPEAKERS FROM: UNITE 4 DECRIM PCS 4 DECRIM SEX WORKERS' UNION Date: 27/11/2025 Time: 7-8:30pm Location: London

Sex workers’ rights are under threat.

We need trade union members to help us fight to access the labour rights and protections we need.

Join our event to find out how.

Date: 27th November
Time: 7 - 8:30PM
Location: London

Ticket link: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...

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Today @tgeuorg.bsky.social posted a list of names of trans people whose lives were lost to violence over the last year. Out of those whose occupation was known, most were sx workers.

Scotland for Decrim Demand full decriminalisation - write to your MSP now

If you can’t make it to the protest, you can still help by emailing your MSP using Scotland for Decrim’s template tool, to ask them to stand with sex workers and oppose Ash Regan’s bill. scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app

The Nordic model (client criminalisation) has led to more violence against sex workers in the countries, plus higher rates of poverty and poor health amongst sex workers - we can’t let this model be implemented in Scotland. We need everyone’s help to stop this bill.

There will be speakers including representatives from Scotland for Decrim, PCS Union, and our favourite Scottish Parliament ally @maggiechapman.bsky.social ❤️

Poster with text reading ‘Stand with Scottish sex workers against the Nordic model! Meet: Scottish Parliament. Date: Tuesday 18th November. Time: 6pm’. The Scotland for Decrim logo is at the top and the background has images of hands holding a camera and a megaphone.

If you’re based in Scotland, please stand in solidarity with sex workers by coming to Scotland for Decrim’s protest outside Scottish Parliament next Tuesday. Sex workers and allies will be there protesting Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic model bill.

If you haven’t already, make sure you read this important Big Issue article on people, particularly women and disabled people, being driven into sex work by poverty, low pay, and the benefits system.