The ISWRN is pleased to announce the publication today of Sex worker lives under the law: A community engaged study of access to health in Ireland. This report was commissioned by HIV Ireland and funded by Open Society Foundations. The research was carried out by Maynooth University researchers Dr Kathryn McGarry and Dr Paul Ryan […]
ISWRN Response to the High Level Working Group
The Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN) is a platform of academics and sex work researchers interested in developing and supporting ethical and robust scholarship on sex work and sexual governance in Ireland. In particular, the ISWRN is fully committed to research and scholarship that has been subject to peer review as part of the […]
ISWRN Responds to Lord Morrow’s Comments
Assessment of impact criminalisation of purchasing sexual services IRELAND The ISWRN objects to Lord Morrow’s comments made during Thursday the 19 September’s Good Morning Ulster radio programme concerning the recent assessment of sex purchase legislation in Northern Ireland. We view these comments as inappropriate and inaccurate. Without reference to the data and the research findings, […]
Criminalisation of purchase of sex punishes wrong person
Dr Eilis Ward and Aoife Kirk discuss sex purchase laws in the Republic of Ireland in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/criminalisation-of-purchase-of-sex-punishes-wrong-person-1.3993093
A new law in Northern Ireland criminalises sex work – and endangers sex workers
Dr Susann Huschke’s research on Northern Ireland cited in The New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2019/08/new-law-northern-ireland-criminalises-sex-work-and-endangers-sex-workers
