# Sex Workers
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This year
2024
further delay
Review into sex work law to be published later this year, four years after initial deadline
27 Feb
6.8k
THE MORNING LEAD
Sex workers sent death threats after replying to text scam
Very few crimes against sex workers are reported to gardaí, an advocacy group said.
A number of people were threatened with physical or sexual violence
Foreign-national sex workers were targeted by the scam
"The texts and calls turned violent, people saying things like they were going to have a hitman kill them."
Órla Ryan
5 Feb
19.6k
Department of Justice
Still no sign of review into sex work law - over three years after it was due to be published
1 Feb
8.3k
All time
Voices
Opinion: The hyperfocus on our punters blinds people to the real issues sex workers face
Molly
25 Aug 2022
17.0k
Donegal
Gardaí arrest two in Donegal over alleged prostitution and human trafficking offences
15 Jun 2022
18.0k
Report
State is failing to protect sex workers from violence, Amnesty International says
25 Jan 2022
8.2k
Report
Sex worker activists among world's most 'at risk' human rights defenders
12 Aug 2021
12.8k
13
sex work
'Sex workers are seen as either criminal or victim, but we're just people trying to survive'
10 Apr 2021
51.1k
New Rules
Amsterdam has banned tour groups from sex workers’ windows in red light district
13 Feb 2020
51.2k
46
Sex Workers
Gardaí make five arrests as they carry out raids linked to spate of assaults on sex workers
20 Nov 2019
18.8k
12
Investigation
'They need to be vigilant': Appeal for sex workers to come forward over recent spate of assaults
14 Nov 2019
18.8k
53
Sex Workers
Ex-sex worker asks judge to stop woman publishing claims she never 'worked' certain Dublin streets
14 Oct 2019
28.1k
conviction
Sex workers' support group praises 20 year sentence for rapist as it thanks victims for coming forward
31 Jul 2019
34.0k
23
crimecall
'I tried to fight so hard. I was chained and I had bruises': Woman forced into prostitution speaks out
29 Apr 2019
61.6k
40
sex work
36 people questioned by gardaí as part of weekend operation targeting the buying of sex
29 Apr 2019
35.7k
84
Disrespectful
Amsterdam to ban guided tours through Red Light District from next year
21 Mar 2019
28.0k
66
Escorts Ireland
No convictions secured against sex buyers since new laws introduced
5 Jan 2019
85.0k
95
Sex Workers
Concerns growing about the number of underage boys being abused in Dublin brothels
27 Oct 2018
77.3k
116
Voices
Opinion: 'All labour involves selling our bodies in some form, so what is different about sex work?'
Danny Rigg
4 Sep 2018
23.9k
103
Prostitution
Buying sex has been illegal in Ireland for one year but 'very little' has changed
23 Feb 2018
63.0k
204
dangers of the job
'I work because they are lonely': Sex workers describe the dangers of the trade at Christmas
23 Dec 2017
72.2k
84
breaking rank
'I don't see it as a solution': Government minister says proposed sex worker laws won't work
26 Oct 2016
11.5k
43
FACTCHECK
FactCheck: Would a new government bill really decriminalise sex workers?
18 Sep 2016
20.7k
68
clyde court hotel
Judge praises sex workers' "courage and determination", returns "hard earned" cash stolen from them
9 Feb 2016
42.4k
52
George Soros
Why is the world's 29th richest person funding a campaign by Irish sex workers?
23 Dec 2015
26.5k
43
Sex Workers
'Prostitution should be legal because men want more sex than women'
11 Aug 2015
31.8k
98
not helping
Sex workers have asked Jill Meagher's husband to drop his support for an anti-sex trade group
18 May 2015
27.5k
73
Red Light
Ireland's ban on the purchase of sex will be challenged by a sex worker
22 Mar 2015
30.3k
60