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By Jon Silverman Home affairs analyst In November 2002 the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, told a London conference Britain was facing a growing threat from Balkan crime gangs, who make vast profits by smuggling – whether guns, drugs, or women … Continue reading
In February 2001, we organized an emergency picket to protest against police and immigration raids against 60 immigrant women in Soho, London. The protest got widespread sympathetic media coverage and as a result the raids were publicly condemned and their … Continue reading
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Thanking the Soho community for helping to keep women safe, Sunday 19 July 2009 Organised by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) and Soho Working Girls as part of the Soho Festival with support of the Soho Society. Led by purpled sequinned dancers and a colourful … Continue reading
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Masked sex workers have paraded through Soho in central London to thank local people for their support in fighting plans to evict them from the area. Police closed two flats in Dean Street in February, claiming they encouraged anti-social behaviour. … Continue reading
The Guardian, 19/02/2009. A judge has ruled that a Soho brothel shut down by police earlier this month can reopen for business. Metropolitan police officers used antisocial behaviour legislation that came into effect at the end of last year to … Continue reading
Soho: Justice prevails against prejudice and witch-hunts! An application by the Metropolitan Police and Westminster Council for a Closure Order against two flats at 61 Dean Street, Soho, was dismissed today, 18 February 2009. (Excellent report in the Evening Standard below.) … Continue reading
. . ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT . . . On 18 December, three police officers from Charing Cross Clubs and Vice Unit visited a flat in Romilly Street, Soho, London and issued … Continue reading
NO BAD WOMEN, NO BAD CHILDREN, JUST BAD LAWS November 2004 The Reclaim the Night march past lap dancing clubs and ending in Soho has been organised without any reference to women workers in the clubs or Soho flats. Prostitute women in Soho … Continue reading
English Collective of Prostitutes Crossroads Women’s Centre, PO Box 287, London, NW6 5QU Tel:(0207) 482 2496 Fax:(0207) 209 4761 Vulnerable women need protection, not deportation English Collective of Prostitutes response to Setting the Boundaries, Reforming the Law on Sex … Continue reading
THE GUARDIAN, Letters Thursday February 22, 2001 We condemn last week’s police and immigration raid on women working in Soho as a violation of human and legal rights (Foreign bodies, Women, G2, February 20). In the name of “protecting” women … Continue reading