Aim
Scarlet Alliance advocates on behalf of a membership consisting of:
- individual sex workers
- funded state level sex worker organizations
- peer led sex worker projects
- unfunded sex worker activist networks
- sex worker interest groups
The organisation aims to inform and influence the policies of:
- state and national governments
- primary health care service providing medical services to sex workers
- state and federal police
- the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC)
- the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department
- political parties
- interest groups within the sex industry
- regional and international funding bodies
Scarlet Alliance aims to promote an increased understanding of sex workers and the issues affecting them. The organisation lobbies for policies which recognize sex workers as self-determining agents, with the option to choose where and how they work. Scarlet Alliance has undertaken campaigns to increase occupational health and safety standards in the sex industry, to recognize the human rights and labour rights of sex workers, and to repeal laws and policies which discriminate against sex workers.
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