We strive to exchange and communicate with other organizations and activists on both a regional and international level.

Due to our diverse work, the spectrum of networking is continuously expanding. Within the framework of cooperation projects, we contribute with theoretical content as well as practical knowledge in numerous places. New associations in the field of anti-racist political work are also very important to us.

Austria-wide networking:

• Networking with other counseling centers and sex workers self-organizations in order to take joint steps against discrimination of sex workers.

The network PRO SEX WORK Allianz für Sexarbeiter*innenrechte (Alliance for Sex Workers’ Rights ) is a group of counseling centers and self-organizations of sex workers in Austria that has existed for over ten years:

• Plattform „Sexworker.at (https://www.sexworker.at)
• Red Edition (https://rededition.wordpress.com)
• IBUS, Innsbruck (https://www.aep-ibus.at)
• SXA-Info, Graz (https://www.frauenservice.at/beratung/sxa)
• PiA, Salzburg (https://www.frau-und-arbeit.at/index.php/beratung/streetwork-pia)
• maiz, Linz (https://www.maiz.at/de)
• LEFÖ, Wien (https://lefoe.at)

One of our goals as a network is to influence legislators to promote an expansion of the rights of sex workers.

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Participation in the meetings of the Working Group on Prostitution within the Task Force on Human Trafficking. The Working Group on Prostitution was established in 2009 and is headed by the Department of Women’s Affairs (Federal Ministry for Women and Health). It currently comprises thirty experts who meet every year for a two-day conference.

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Netzwerke Sexuelle Bildung in Oö (Sexual Education Networks in Upper Austria) is a regional networking on education & counseling on sexual & gender diversity, health and sex work:

• Aidshilfe OÖ
• Verein PIA – SexOlogisch
• Homosexuelle Initiative Linz – Hosi Linz
• Verein für Jugend- Familien- und Sexualberatung; Beratungsstelle BILY
• Courage OÖ
• Lil* Zentrum für Sexuelle Bildung, Kommunikations- und Gesundheitsförderung
• Verein SENIA
• First Love Ambulanz
• VIMÖ
• Dyke March Linz
• VARGES Beratungsstelle für Variationen der Geschlechtsmerkmale (VdG)
• YOUnited
• maiz