Sophie K Rosa @sophiekrosaParliament has passed a controversial bill proposing the UK adopts the ‘Nordic model’ for its laws on sex work. The bill, brought by Labour MP Diana Johnson on Wednesday, is opposed by sex workers and groups including Amnesty International, harm-reduction charity Release and Women Against Rape, who argue that the legal model it proposes is driven […]
A NEW law is needed to “bust the business model of sex trafficking” by “shifting the burden of criminality” from victims to men who pay for sex, a Labour MP told the Commons yesterday.Britain is a “high-value and low-risk” destination for sex trafficking because the law fails to discourage demand for prostitution, Kingston upon Hull […]
Compelling speech by Lyn Brown MP against a dangerous Ten-Minute Rule motion which would criminalise sex workers’ clients, saying it “will put women at greater risk”. Identifying “poverty and inequality” as root causes of sex work, she cites research about rising destitution in UK. For more info see our briefing for MPs against the motion […]
‘We will be forced back onto the backstreet alleys and made as vulnerable overnight as women were in Victorian days. We won’t be able to feed our kids,’ says sex worker Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheim A Labour MP has been fiercely criticised for proposing legislation which would criminalise buying sex as campaigners warn the bill […]
Men who pay for sex fuel ‘brutal sex trafficking trade’, senior MP says as she proposes law to bust the business However, sex workers and trade unionists argue that criminalising clients undermines sex workers’ safety Men who pay for sex are fuelling a “brutal sex trafficking trade”, a senior MP said on Wednesday as she proposed […]
VIC PARSONS Trade unions, sex workers, women’s rights organisations and thousands of individuals have united to oppose a Labour bill that would bring the “Nordic model” sex work law to England and Wales. Due to be put forward today by Labour MP Diana Johnson, the bill on “sexual exploitation” would criminalise paying for sex and target […]
Sex workers, trade unionists, women’s and human rights organisations are briefing MPs against a Ten-Minute Rule Motion to criminalise sex workers’ clients, being read in Parliament today, Wednesday, 9 December. The motion, tabled by Diana Johnson MP, proposes a Bill to “criminalise paying for sex” and target sex workers who advertise online. The briefing documents […]
Issued by The Safety First Coalition (SFC) The SFC which campaigns to decriminalise sex work and prioritise women’s safety is coordinated by the English Collective of Prostitutes and was launched in 2006 following the murders of five young women in Ipswich. The coalition includes anti-poverty campaigners, church people & residents from Ipswich and elsewhere, members […]
No Bad Women, Just Bad Laws. International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers17 December 2020, 5pm GMT Women from Hull and Mayfair on their similar struggles against poverty, violence and criminalisation. An Untold Story – Voices, a collective of women with experience of street sex work speaking on their determined struggle to […]
Women are worried about eviction and risking their health by working because they cannot survive any other way – they urgently need Government support By Niki Adams I got a text from Jilly a couple of days ago. “I had a stripping job on Saturday and was forced to do it as broke and I […]
