On Tuesday 8 July 2014, the French Senate rejected proposals to criminalise sex workers’ clients. The Select Committee considering the proposal consulted sex workers and other organisations over several months and found that people were alarmed about the danger caused … Continue reading
Aug 1: Niki Adams ECP speaking in San Francisco
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From the UK to the Bay Area Sex Workers Win Justice and the Right to Work Safely Friday, August 1 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco (16th Mission BART) 6:30pm Snacks, meet and greet Niki from London 7pm program starts Guest … Continue reading
How the Nordic Model will close the door on the professional dominatrix. MARGARET CORVID
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Under the Nordic Model – which criminalises the clients of sex workers – the role of the dominatrix, which is as classically British as that of a steam train conductor, will be greatly changed and diminished. BY MARGARET CORVID PUBLISHED 16 JUNE, 2014 … Continue reading
ONS Counts Sex Work.
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It’s about time that the contribution that sex workers make to the economy was quantified. But sex work should be listed as work not as an “illegal transaction” because prostitution, the exchange of sex for money between two consenting adults, … Continue reading
Letter in The Guardian – The trouble with criminalising sex workers’ clients
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Letters The Guardian, Friday 25 April 2014 21.00 BST A sex worker talking to a driver. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Wire The all-party parliamentary group that recommended the criminalisation of sex workers’ clients, which is cited as backing for Caroline Spelman‘s views (Outlaw … 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
Weds 18 June ECP speaking at The Spark, London 2.30pm.
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Sex workers organising for safety & justice ——————————————————————————– 2.30-6pm, at St Peter’s Community Hall, 56 Warner Place, London, E2 7DA. Recent police raids against sex workers in Soho, London, have thrown scores of women out of the relative safety of … Continue reading
Pledge – Decriminalise sex work – for safety’s sake
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Prostitutes warn ban on buying sex could endanger women
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Listen here. 22 April 2014 Last updated at 17:21 BST The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has criticised calls for the Government to make buying sex a crime. Tory cabinet minister Caroline Spelman claimed the UK should copy the so-called nordic … Continue reading
Paying for sex ‘should be outlawed’ (From Echo, Southend)
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Paying for sex ‘should be outlawed’ (From Echo) NATIONAL NEWS Paying for sex ‘should be outlawed’ 5:21am Tuesday 22nd April 2014 in National News© Press Association 2014 An ex-minister is calling for a law change to make paying for sex illegal … Continue reading
