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By Gabriella Swerling The Independent Notebook Wednesday, 1 May 2013 The sex industry like most others is feeling the effects of the credit crunch. But in a grim role-reversal, it’s not the booming industry that’s suffering but its workers. As … Continue reading
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Prostitutes are regularly being raped, beaten up and targeted with racist abuse but most are unwilling to go to police, research shows. Sex workers in London reported crimes against them under a trial scheme that lets them add information to … Continue reading
Labelling attacks against prostitutes as hate crimes could end the agony of those who suffer in silence, police have been told. Complaints by sex workers about violence are rare because they are either not taken seriously or treated as an … Continue reading
Letters The Guardian, Monday 11 March 2013 20.59 GMT In Somalia, Lul Ali Osman Barake was sentenced to a year in jail after reporting rape by a gang of men in military fatigues. She described being raped twice, first by the … Continue reading
WORKING girl Rita Brown wrote to Prime Minister David Cameron from her prison cell – to ask for prostitution to be decriminalised. By Richard Ault The 60-year-old, who went by the name ‘Crystal’, was sentenced to eight months in jail … Continue reading
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New Zealand took a big step in 2003 by decriminalising prostitution. The English Collective of Prostitutes is fighting for the same status in England. Benjamin Serra The Prisma Poverty and the recent economic crisis forces hundreds of women to work … Continue reading
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Rachael Getzels, Reporter Everyone from outspoken writers to local councillors in Hampstead and Highgate have weighed in with their opinion on the Leveson Inquiry as the investigation into media ethics eclipses the headlines Still hot off the press, national and … Continue reading
Respuesta inicial del Colectivo Inglés de Prostitutas (CIP) a las recomendaciones del Lobby Europeo de Mujeres (LEM) del 4 de diciembre de 2012. 1. En un momento de crisis económica en que la pobreza entre las mujeres y los niños … Continue reading