Move ‘will help sex workers’

An Irish sex worker has welcomed Amnesty International’s draft policy to decriminalise sex work globally. 

Members of the international human rights organisation are meeting in Dublin this weekend where they are expected to vote in favour of the draft policy that supports the decriminalisation of sex work.

Catriona O’Brien, spokesperson for the Sex Workers’ Alliance Ireland, said: “They’re taking a sensible human rights approach. They developed this policy over two years of extensive research, where they interviewed sex workers in Galway, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea and Amnesty found decriminalisation was the best model”.