Campaigners are urging the council to end the criminalisation of prostitution laws.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has gathered more than 1,300 signatures from local residents demanding that Brighton and Hove City Council does “everything in its power to protect sex workers in the city and use whatever influence it has to push for decriminalisation of […]
PRESS RELEASE . . . PRESS RELEASE . . . PRESS RELEASE . . . Sex workers urge Brighton and Hove City Council to support their demands to end the criminalisation of sex work and provide resources to help people leave sex work if they choose. A petition to Brighton and Hove City Council issued by the English […]
Dear friends,We are excited to announce that we have passed the 1,250 signature mark on our petition demanding that Brighton and Hove City Council decriminalise sex work and prioritise safety! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who supported us! This means that the petition will be presented and debated at the next Full Council meeting on December 19th […]
Campaigners are calling for an end to the “Prostitutes Caution”, saying it’s preventing women leaving sex work behind them. The caution stays on record for 100 years and there’s no appeal possible. A new report from the English Collective of Prostitutes says two thirds of women they surveyed who’d been given one found it hard […]
A ‘prostitute’s caution’, unlike other cautions, does not require a person to admit an offence or agree to it Police in England and Wales should be banned from issuing a “draconian” caution that exclusively targets sex workers, both politicians and campaigners have said. A “prostitute’s caution”, unlike other police cautions, does not require a person […]
Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia Sex workers in the UK speak out after Belgium grants people in the industry employment rights in historic first Under a new law in Belgium – the first of its kind in the world – sex workers have been given employment rights. They will be entitled to official employment […]
Novara Media · Novara FM: Protect or Punish? The Stakes of Sex Worker Activism w/ Laura Watson Imagine a person arrested for keeping a brothel. Who are they? An abusive pimp? Such people exist, no doubt, but the law isn’t set up just to catch abusers: it also targets sex workers working together to […]
We know policing often harms sex workers. We need to talk about what it would take to change tack Jyoti Belur Ella Cockbain Policing often harms sex workers. That’s not up for debate – copious academic research and sex worker-led advocacy and research demonstrate that. But we’re not actually sure why law enforcement behaves […]
A Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) is backing a group fighting for sex work convictions to be exempt from security checks. Cleveland’s Labour PCC Matt Storey has come out in support of the English Collective of Prostitutes’ (ECP) Proceed without Caution campaign which highlights the consequences of sex workers receiving criminal convictions. The charity says […]
The world of work is often neglected in art of the 21st century, despite the toil to earn a living consuming an average 35 hours a week in Britain. In September, Wellcome Collection in Euston Road, Euston, opened Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights. This free major exhibition offers an unsparing showcase of artworks that […]
