It’s a key part of reducing violence against women.Lauren Crosby Medlicott is a freelance journalist in South Wales who covers human rights issues.Police violence those at Sarah Everard’s vigil shocked the nation, but many women working in the sex industry won’t be surprised at all. Camilla*, a Brazilian sex worker in central London, started working in the […]
Watch more videos on iai.tv The limits of sexuality Should we eradicate sexuality from our public live 18th March 2021 In the 21st century sexuality is more explicit than it has ever been and most see sexuality as central to who they are. Yet we increasingly seek to eradicate sexuality from our public lives. Most […]
Cari Mitchell on the campaign to increase safety for women working in flats in London’s Soho district Your review of Hot Stew, a novel set amid the brothels of Soho (10 March) condemns as “disastrous” the forms of protest attempted by the prostitutes. But in real life, a sex worker-led campaign of meetings and marches, pickets and protests […]
A controversial new proposal could make paying for sex a criminal offence and protect women from violence, but workers, activists and charities argue it will have the opposite effect, writes Rachel HaganPaying for sex could become a criminal offence in England and Wales if parliament approves a new bill which has been put forward by Dame […]
By Lauren Crosby Medlicott, Freelance writerWhen Nadia arrived in the UK three days after she’d left her home in Eastern Europe, she thought she was coming to work as a nanny.It was a big move for the 18-year-old, who had made the traumatic decision to leave her baby behind. But for Nadia it was the only […]
Dear friends, The Home Office is doing a consultation on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). Thank you to everyone who responded to the survey we did with National Ugly Mugs and Umbrella Lane to gather sex workers’ experience of violence to feed into the Home Office consultation. Our survey has now closed BUT… if […]
Some women have taken up sex work for the first time because of money worries, while others who had left the trade have returnedSex workers across the UK are facing increased violence and hardship as a result of lockdowns and coronavirus restrictions, charities and support organisations have warned.They say sex workers are in more dire […]
A response to Nordic Model Now – Dame Diana Johnson’s Sexual Exploitation Bill: The DebateThe COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated in real-time the dangerous effects that reducing demand for sex work has on sex workers. Exclusion from government support means many sex workers face a near-impossible choice between continuing to work or attempting to survive on Universal […]
Not all sex-workers are being exploited for many it is their only way out of ‘desperate poverty’. Buzz reporter Lauren Joy finds out more.The English Collective of Prostitutes says there is a growing number of women being forced into sex work during the pandemic posing risks to their health.The organisation which began in 1975, campaigns […]
