The Ireland Sex workers alliance calls for review to be scrapped
2023-07-16
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The mandated review into the 2017 Sexual offenses act was due three years after the legislation was implemented. This act made it a criminal offence to purchase sex, along with other regulations which made it harder for prostitutes to work together in safety. The individual in charge of the review has left the project. The review is now over three years late. SWAI are concerned the review i .....
Amnesty report highlights Ireland's failure to protect sex workers
2023-03-31
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According to Amnesty International’s annual report on human rights around the world, Ireland has failed to protect the human rights of sex workers. Fiona Crowley, Amnesty International Ireland’s interim director for Human Rights, said: “We have serious concerns about the human rights situation in Ireland in 2022. The criminalisation of some aspects of sex work puts sex workers a .....
Google reinstates search results relating to man’s brothel-keeping conviction
2023-03-02
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Hey, did you hear about this guy Mark McCormick who ran six brothels in Dublin and got caught in 2010? He only spent 16 months in jail and then he asked Google to hide his dirty past from the internet. How crazy is that?
Well, the Irish Independent wrote an article exposing his sneaky move and Google took it down this month. But they put it back up after the newspaper complained. The legal g .....
Gardaí target purchasing of sex across country
2022-12-02
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Gardaí carried out two days of action last week targeting the purchasing of sex across the country. As a result, 46 people were identified as having allegedly purchased sexual services.
There were 65 safeguarding visits conducted, with a view to eliminating the possibility of sexual exploitation and advice was given to 112 sex workers during these visits.
During this period, .....
Man sentenced for human trafficking offences back in court after breaching bail
2022-08-04
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A Co Down man recently sentenced for a catalogue of human trafficking and prostitution offences has appeared in court accused of breaching his Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Order (STPO).
Appearing at Belfast Magistrates Court by video link from police custody, 59-year-old Martin Heaney was charged with breaching the STPO on July 23 by accessing “websites which advertised in person .....
Women hiring Escorts male escorts
2022-08-02
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We are told by the radical feminist that prostitution is exclusively men buying women. This is factually incorrect. on several levels.
Men buy the services of women, not the women.
Females also buy sex from men. Often this is on holiday where they give gifts to young men while having sex with them. They don't consider this as prostitution, but it is.
There are women .....
Widespread tributes paid to the late Dr Vicky Conway
2022-07-27
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The Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI), which promotes the human rights, equality and participation of sex workers, said it was “absolutely devastated to hear this news”. Dr Conway “was an incredible ally to sex workers, hosted several sex workers and allies on her Policed in Ireland podcast and was a massive pro-choice legend with Lawyers for Choice,” SWAI tweeted.
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Man who raped two sex workers on same day loses appeal against 20-year sentence
2022-07-21
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Gheorghe Goidan was jailed for 20 years on the in 2019 for the "ultra-violent" rape of two sex workers on the same day in separate hotels has failed in a bid to have his conviction quashed and his sentence reduced on appeal.
After arranging to meet them in hotel rooms, he pulled a knife and threatened them before repeatedly assaulting and raping both women in two separate .....
Predatory men in Ireland pose as the Gardai
2022-04-27
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Ugly Mugs IE has alleged that predatory men are posing as the Guards to illicit free sex and to rob vulnerable sex workers. Ugly Mugs have handed over a dossier of reports going back to 2016.
Despite selling sex is legal in Ireland, sex workers still view members of the Irish police with suspicion. .....
Increase in Violence Against Sex Workers Denied at Women in Policing Conference
2022-03-11
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Ugly Mugs Ireland is extremely disappointed that a speaker at the International Association of Women in Policing (IAWP) Conference, currently taking place in Dublin , was yesterday permitted to use the prestigious event as a platform to try to discredit important Ugly Mugs data on violence against sex workers in Ireland.
Ugly Mugs (UM) Ireland, a sex worker safety scheme, has published stati .....