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 […]
‘This publicity campaign exploits women’s experience of violence and trauma to promote the criminalisation of prostitution which in reality is making it more dangerous and difficult for women to work,’ says campaignerMaya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheim Men interested in paying for sex will be duped into listening to harrowing real life stories about sex trafficking when they ring a fake call […]
In our new normal, staying at least a metre away from other people is mandatory pretty much everywhere you go. But for the UK’s 70,000 sex workers, following these rules could mean going hungry or homeless. Sex workers in the UK have largely been shut out from government schemes to protect those unable to work due […]
Dear friends, The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on ‘challenging men’s demand for prostitution’. Outrageously, they have presented this as part of its Equally Safe strategy. Please see the below tools from our colleagues at Scot-Pep who are encouraging as many organisations and individuals as possible to respond to the survey. Their helpful guidance highlights the dangers of […]
The second national lockdown is going to push sex workers “even deeper into crisis”, according to a campaign group.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has called for state support for workers in the coronavirus pandemic.It said people were having to choose between risking their health by working or seeing their family go hungry.Cari – not […]
‘It was only when some so-called respectable women got killed that they began to pay attention,’ says campaigner Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheim West Yorkshire Police has apologised to the families of Peter Sutcliffe’s victims for the “language, tone and terminology” used by senior officers during their investigation into the killings. John Robins, the force’s chief […]
We heard the news of the Yorkshire Ripper dying and our first thoughts were with the families, with the survivors. Probably, they must be feeling relief that they don’t have to face any chance of Sutcliffe getting out of prison, as there was some talk of that not long ago.The ECP was very involved at […]
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