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Sex work is work:

Gasworks in Albert Park is exhibiting artworks by sex workers to highlight International Sex Worker Rights Day. Photo: Joe Armao

VICTORIA, Australia, Friday March,2018 According to Vixen Collective, Victoria's peer-only sex worker organization, decriminalization is the removal of all criminal laws relating to the sex industry, allowing sex work to be regulated like any other business.

Mr Murnane said there was growing international evidence to support decriminalisation of sex work. "We have to got to totally deregulate the industry.

"To the contrary, [Amnesty International] says that when sex work is decriminalized, sex workers are better able to work together and demand their rights, leading to better working conditions and standards and greater oversight of commercial sex and potential trafficking within it," he said.

"When they are not threatened with decriminalization, sex workers are also able to collaborate with law enforcement to identify traffickers and victims of trafficking.

"Sex work is work; trafficking is a crime."

 

By Neelima Choahan