Cheryl Overs is a founder and former first director of the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria, the Scarlet Alliance[1] in Australia and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.
Overs set up organisations, oversaw events and authored texts that established the place of sex workers' rights within the global response to HIV/AIDS.
In 1988 the PCV hosted the Prostitution and the Aids Debate Conference in Melbourne which led to the formation of the national federation of sex workers' organisations, the Scarlet Alliance.
After attending the International AIDS Conference in Canada in 1989 Overs moved to Europe to advocate for sex workers' rights in the nascent global response to HIV/AIDS.
Since 2000 Overs has continued advocating for health and human rights working with various UN and civil society agencies in more than twenty countries including Ethiopia, India, UK, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mongolia and Brazil.
Overs, C. (2016) From the Frontline in Lalor, K.; Mills, E.; Sánchez García, A. and Haste, P. Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What's Law Got to Do with It?, Brighton: IDS