IUSW campaigns for the human, civil and labour rights of those who work in the sex industry. This position is based on the principle that everyone should have equal freedom to choose how they earn their living and freedom to choose what they do with their own body.

The IUSW is based on a practice of sex workers' self organisation and works towards the improvement of working conditions in the sex industry; for rights and recognition of workers; the right to change work and not to be forced to stay with the same employer and the right to stay and not to be deported.

Sex Worker Organisations and Contacts

• English Collective of Prostitutes
• Safety First Coalition
  The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2007 (CJIB) is part of the government’s repressive response to the unprecedented public outcry of caring and concern at the murder of five sex workers in Ipswich. The CJIB will increase the criminalisation of sex workers through compulsory rehabilitation and imprisonment. There is discussion within the government of plans to make in an amendment to the Bill which would criminalise clients. This is despite evidence from Sweden, where similar legislation has been introduced, that it has made women more vulnerable to violence and exploitation.
• International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe
• Sex Workers in Europe Manifesto
  Within this document we explore the current inequalities and injustices within our lives and the sex industry; question their origin; confront and challenge them and put forward our vision of changes that are needed to create a more equitable society in which sex workers, their rights and labour are acknowledged and valued.
• The Declaration of the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe
  This declaration was elaborated and endorsed by 120 sex workers and 80 allies from 30 countries at the European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration 15 - 17 October 2005, Brussels, Belgium