NZPC | Te Waka Kaimahi Kairau o Aotearoa | New Zealand Sex Workers' Collective

The NZPC | Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers' Collective is run by sex workers, for sex workers, and advocates for the rights, safety, health, and well being of all sex workers. We are committed to working for the empowerment of sex workers, so that sex workers can have control over all aspects of their work and lives.

Our services focus on workers rights, HIV and STI prevention, and education. We also provide safer sex supplies to sex workers, and offer free sexual health clinics at our community bases.

NZPC has long been at the forefront of reforming the law for sex workers. We helped draft the Prostitution Reform Act which decriminalised sex work in New Zealand, and built support for it as it passed into law.

NZPC provides expert advice to those with an interest in law and policy surrounding sex work in New Zealand. We are also a crucial point of liaison between government and non-government civil society, and the sex industry.

NZPC | Te Waka Kaimahi Kairau o Aotearoa | New Zealand Sex Workers' Collective

Our services focus on workers rights, HIV and STI prevention, and education. We also provide safer sex supplies to sex workers, and offer free sexual health clinics at our community bases.

Our Kaupapa and Values

NZPC is an organisation run by sex workers for sex workers.
NZPC advocates for the human rights, health and well-being of all sex workers.
NZPC recognises that sex work is work.
NZPC recognises that sex workers should not experience discrimination and stigma due to their work.
NZPC recognises the centrality of the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
NZPC recognises that sex workers are experts in our own lives.
NZPC enables sex workers to remain anonymous when they access our services.
NZPC is committed to working for the empowerment of sex workers, so that sex workers can have control over all aspects of our work and lives.

At our core, NZPC works toward securing rights for sex workers. We believe that it is crucial that all sex workers can have control over their working conditions, for their safety, health, and well-being.

We aim to meet the following objectives

To involve sex workers in all functions of the NZPC | Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers' Collective
To ensure sex workers have appropriate information to make informed decisions that will enhance their occupational safety and health
To support sex workers to access services of relevance to their occupational safety and health
To provide information, and support to sex workers that enables them to work safely and in supportive, safe environments
To assist sex workers to overcome barriers that impact negatively on their rights, health, and well being
To assist sex workers in finding strategies to overcome situations that are detrimental to their occupational safety and health
To provide balanced advice to people considering sex work, and to people who have recently entered sex work
To liaise with government and non-government agencies that engage with sex workers, and to assist these agencies to do so in an effective, culturally appropriate, way
To liaise with government and non-government agencies on issues, related to sex work, that will result in better conditions for sex workers
To provide support to people under the age of 18 who are involved in sex work to ensure that they have a variety of options, are able to make informed decisions about these options, and that these options include the ability to leave sex work
To provide operators of brothels with advice that explains their responsibilities and legal obligations

Our Kaupapa and Values

NZPC is an organisation run by sex workers for sex workers.
NZPC advocates for the human rights, health and well-being of all sex workers.
NZPC recognises that sex work is work.
NZPC recognises that sex workers should not experience discrimination and stigma due to their work.
NZPC recognises the centrality of the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
NZPC recognises that sex workers are experts in our own lives.
NZPC enables sex workers to remain anonymous when they access our services.
NZPC is committed to working for the empowerment of sex workers, so that sex workers can have control over all aspects of our work and lives.

We aim to meet the following objectives

To involve sex workers in all functions of the NZPC | Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers' Collective
To ensure sex workers have appropriate information to make informed decisions that will enhance their occupational safety and health
To support sex workers to access services of relevance to their occupational safety and health
To provide information, and support to sex workers that enables them to work safely and in supportive, safe environments
To assist sex workers to overcome barriers that impact negatively on their rights, health, and well being
To assist sex workers in finding strategies to overcome situations that are detrimental to their occupational safety and health
To provide balanced advice to people considering sex work, and to people who have recently entered sex work
To liaise with government and non-government agencies that engage with sex workers, and to assist these agencies to do so in an effective, culturally appropriate, way
To liaise with government and non-government agencies on issues, related to sex work, that will result in better conditions for sex workers
To provide support to people under the age of 18 who are involved in sex work to ensure that they have a variety of options, are able to make informed decisions about these options, and that these options include the ability to leave sex work
To provide operators of brothels with advice that explains their responsibilities and legal obligations