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Independent: Violence against sex workers will surge under new Online Safety Bill, campaigners warn
Exclusive: ‘They will become street-based sex workers which means you have sex with men on the street, down alleys, or sometimes in cars,’ says campaigner Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent Violence against sex workers will rise under proposed measures outlined in the government’s new online safety bill, campaigners have warned. The legislation will stop sex workers from advertising their services […]
Briefing: Online Safety Bill – Criminalising sex workers’ online adverts will undermine safety
Please click here to use our quick online tool and template letter to ask your MP to call for the removal of Clause 16 (Section 7 – Priority Offences) of the Online Safety Bill and urge them to speak out against this dangerous attempt to criminalise sex workers’ online advertising. Online Safety Bill: Criminalising sex […]
Online Safety Bill (2021)
The Online Safety Bill was published on 12 May 2021 with the stated aim of cracking down on “harmful” content online. A clause has now been added to the bill to include the offence of “inciting or controlling prostitution for gain” as one of the priority offences that tech companies have to look out for – […]
Independent: Sex worker beaten by her clients shares deportation fears as police crack down on prostitution
Exclusive: Sex worker says being ‘dragged through’ criminal justice system has ‘destroyed’ her life and made her homeless Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent “Five or six police officers came to my flat last April,” Iris says. “I was really shocked so I didn’t open the door because I didn’t know what was going on. They broke my […]
Media Storm podcast: Sex Workers: Ignored and under threat
Media Storm presented by Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia.Warning: Some strong language and references to sexOnline or offline, the stigma that comes with being a sex worker is pervasive. But sex work is not just stigmatised – it’s criminalised. Laws that ban certain aspects of sex work force workers into unsafe, unregulated environments, where they […]
Dazed: Why sex workers went on strike this week
Text Emma Garland ‘Your job isn’t empowering either’ Last night, the Women’s Strike took place on the streets of the UK for the first time in two years. Hundreds gathered in London’s Leicester Square – protestors, activists and members of trade unions like United Voices of the World (representing low-paid, migrant and precarious workers) and IWGB (founded by Latin American cleaners, […]
Sex Workers Striking Against Violence – Interview with Cari Mitchell, ECP
Interview byCOMITÉ AUTONOME DU TRAVAIL DU SEXE // SEX WORK AUTONOMOUS COMMITTEECari Mitchell is a former sex worker and a member of the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), a network of sex workers in the United Kingdom working both outdoors and indoors campaigning for decriminalisation and safety. 1 In 2000, the ECP organized a sex workers’ strike […]
Event: Wages for Housework – 50 Years of Campaigning! March events
Starting this month and throughout 2022, the International Wages for Housework Campaign (WFHC) will celebrate its golden anniversary and launch its 1972-2022 archives! The ECP started as an autonomous organisation within the WFHC and at the time the WFHC was one of the few women’s organisations that was ready to work with sex workers and help […]
Screenshot: Why aren’t more feminists fighting to decriminalise sex work?
Sex work is a profession that is consistently under threat—workers are judged, shamed, harassed and criminalised. However, sex workers have had a particularly rough time of it during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike others who were able to continue to work remotely or granted furlough when the former was not a possibility, sex workers received no governmental support. […]