4 March 2014, 18:55 Voice of Russia UK prostitution: MPs call for customers and pimps to be penalised in future EPA Download podcast MPs and peers have this week been calling for reforms to Britain’s laws, which currently criminalise prostitution. An all-party … Continue reading
Selling sex should be decriminalised but buying it should be illegal, say MPs
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Current laws prioritise ‘gratification of punters at expense of often vulnerable women and girls’, MP says Alexandra Topping theguardian.com, Monday 3 March 2014 16.44 Sex workers and their supporters participate in a demonstration in the Soho district of London on in October … Continue reading
26 March in Parliament, Stop the criminalisation of sex work
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PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT MEETING, HOUSE OF COMMONS STOP THE CRIMINALISATION OF SEX WORK – SAFETY FIRST! 26 March 2014, 6.30-8.30 pm Committee Room 12 Host: John McDonnell MP Chair: English Collective of Prostitutes Proposals to increase the criminalisation of prostitution … Continue reading
Today, sex workers oppose criminalisation of clients
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CRIMINALISING CLIENTS UNDERMINES SEX WORKERS’ SAFETY & OTHER RIGHTSThe English Collective of Prostitutes strongly oppose proposals being put forward today by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution to criminalise sex workers’ clients. Spokeswoman, Cari Mitchell, commented: “Criminalising clients will not … Continue reading
Comeback: Why the Nordic Model harms women – Feminist Times
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The English Collective of Prostitutes: Criminalising clients will not stop prostitution, nor will it stop the criminalisation of women. But it will make it more dangerous and stigmatising for sex workers. Faced with no benefits, or only the lowest-waged jobs, many … Continue reading
Our response to Mary Honeyball, Huffington Post
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No Ms Honeyball what the English Collective of Prostitutes actually said is: Faced with no benefit, or only the lowest-waged jobs, many women sell sexual services. Are we less degraded when we have to skip meals, beg or stay with … Continue reading
PROSTITUTION: WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?
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Niki Adams cautions against ‘the Swedish Model’ and raises concerns about the role of the religiously-motivated, State-funded Irish pressure group ‘Ruhama’. Olaf Tyaransen, 27 Feb 2014 “To the moralist, prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the … Continue reading
Vicar says Soho community feels police ‘were not honest’ about brothel raids operation
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Members of the English Collective of Prostitutes were joined by Soho residents on Wednesday in a noon protest against the raids. They also collected signatures in opposition to a move in the European Parliament to criminalise sex workers’ clients. Below, … Continue reading
Radio 5 interview on policing of prostitution
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Listen here: Policing of Prostitution Radio 5 interview
Judge overturns decision to shut down BROTHEL after prostitutes prove they were not being forced to work there
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Two flats raided in London’s Red Light district last December by 200 police Officers believed sex workers were being illegally controlled for gain However, judge has quashed closure on two flats in Brewer Street, Soho Said there was no evidence … Continue reading
Closure of Soho brothels raises risks for women, says local priest
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Police operation condemned with claims that it will ‘push sex workers back on to the streets’ Mark Townsend The Observer, Sunday 23 February 2014 Jump to comments (189) A parish priest in Soho’s red-light district in London has claimed that the behaviour of police during raids on local … Continue reading
Know Your Rights
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Printable version here. Looking for help to defend your rights? Need to know about: police and immigration raids; soliciting and “prostitute cautions”; ASBOs; Engagement and Support Orders; closure orders? Working with other women and worried about being charged with “brothel-keeping” and/or “controlling”? … Continue reading
Briefing: Anti-trafficking – an excuse for a moralistic crusade against sex workers
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1. Claims that “80% of women in prostitution are controlled by traffickers”[1] have been thoroughly discredited, most recently in the Guardian’s extensive investigation ‘Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic,’ 20 Oct 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/trafficking-numbers-women-exaggerated Even the widely used claim that of 4,000 women … Continue reading
Recommendations for changes in law and policy
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By the English Collective of Prostitutes which co-ordinates the Safety First Coalition In 2003, New Zealand decriminalized prostitution stating that “while not endorsing or morally sanctioning prostitution or its use” it aimed “to create a framework that: (a) safeguards the human rights … Continue reading
What we campaign for
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All sex workers must be decriminalised whether they work on the street or in premises. Scrap the prostitution laws: they criminalize sex workers, divide us from our families and friends, make us vulnerable to violence, and set us apart from … Continue reading
Protest criminalisation & police raids vs sex workers TOMORROW 11am
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STOP CRIMINALISATION: SAFETY FIRST PROTEST AGAINST RAIDS, EVICTIONS AND CRIMINALISATION. Walkers Court, Soho. Wednesday 26 February, 11am-12pm. A motion by MEP Mary Honeyball to criminalise sex workers’ clients is being voted on in Europe tomorrow Wednesday … Continue reading