Exclusive: ‘People are horrified that sex workers suffer so much violence and understand that the prostitution laws, which force women to work in isolation, increase the danger of attack,’ says campaigner Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheim Campaigners have called for sex work to be decriminalised as a new study finds more people in Britain support sex work law reform than oppose […]
More Britons believe sex workers should not be punished for operating out of brothels or on the street than those who think they should, an opinion poll commissioned by RightsInfo has found. Forty-nine percent of British people surveyed are in favour of decriminalising brothel-keeping, an offence punishable by up to seven years in prison. Meanwhile, 44 percent […]
In sex work, consent is based on conditions such as protection and payment. But when abuse happens, women are struggling to get justice In March, a man was given an extended jail sentence for raping a sex worker after removing his condom during sex. The woman had specifically stated that all her clients must use protection, and […]
As a follow up to the Government commissioned review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, the APPG launched its call for evidence on whether the legal framework of Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) “makes it a more attractive destination for those involved in trafficking adults for the purpose of sexual exploitation”. The ECP’s evidence detailed […]
Families struggling to proviude meals during summer holidays By Helen Chapman CAMPAIGNERS at a food bank staged a demonstration as they warned that families are struggling to feed their children during the school holidays. Placards were held up in Lancing Street, Euston, on Thursday, with organisers hoping that their protest would highlight how people need […]
The ECP’s written and oral evidence focused on the intolerable poverty and increase in prostitution faced by women as a direct result of Conservative austerity cuts, as well as highlighting how destitution and criminalisation makes women and young people more vulnerable to exploitation and violence. In 2019, the CHRC published its report ‘The Limits of Consent’ recommending […]
“Hello, my name is Maria and I am from the English Collective of Prostitutes”. That certainly stops police in their tracks. It’s a line I use a lot nowadays. I started working in the streets in Birmingham about a year ago. At first the police left us alone.I lived in a house with three other women. At […]
I’m two hours into my nine hour shift and it’s a quiet day. We are all feeling anxious because yesterday was quiet too, like every other day this month. I feel a mounting sense of doom at how I am going to cover my bills. I tell Mary, our receptionist, I’m writing an article about my […]
RightsInfo has been funded to make an animation and an explainer film and commission a range of content to explore the research, work and campaign of the English Collective of Prostitutes in their research ‘What’s A Nice Girl Like You Doing In A Job Like This’. This collection of content will be released over […]
Poverty and crumbling social care have driven vulnerable people into sex work. You wouldn’t know it from this inquiry When Conservative MP Fiona Bruce chairs an inquiry into sex work, you don’t hold your breath for a triumph of progressiveness. This is a politician who is anti-abortion and has repeatedly voted against equal marriage. And yet […]
