Sir, – The Sex Workers Alliance Ireland is the only front-line, sex worker-led organisation to give voice to active sex workers in Ireland, a view that is missing from Irish society. We are in contact with active sex workers every day. The report and the editorial ignored or obscured the very real increase in violence that sex workers have felt since the change in the law in 2017. Look to HIV Ireland’s report Sex Worker Lives under the Law and the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe report Undeserving Victims? Community Report on Access to Justice for Migrant Sex Workers to see how language, literacy and translation were not an obstacle to conducting sex worker-inclusive research.

Source: The Irish Times November 25, 2020 00:11 UTC