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6th April 2019

Independent: Sex workers harassed, assaulted and illegally targeted for deportations amid culture of xenophobia after Brexit

Exclusive: ‘For migrant workers, everything is compounded – the sexism, the criminalisation and the racism and then the hostile immigration environment’Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheimSex workers in the UK are being illegally targeted for deportations and subjected to harassment and attacks because of a Brexit-inspired culture of discrimination against foreigners, campaigners have claimed.A dossier compiled by the campaign group English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) […]

1st April 2019

Press Release: Sex workers document Brexit-inspired discrimination that is depriving them of the right to remain in the UK

A sex worker collective has compiled a dossier of cases that it has fought over the last few years showing how Brexit is affecting migrant sex workers from the EU. The English Collective of Prostitutes’ dossier, Sex workers are getting screwed by Brexit, includes examples of women being targeted by police for arrest and deportation despite […]

27th March 2019

The Guardian: The Yorkshire Ripper Files review – a stunningly mishandled manhunt

This profound and disturbing true-crime show lays bare the case’s outrageous misogyny – and lets silenced women be heard at last. Over the course of three nights, the film-maker Liza Williams is revisiting one of the biggest – and longest – murder manhunts in British history. The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story […]

21st March 2019

I News: We are single mothers and sex workers – this is what we want the Government to know about Universal Credit

Niki Adams We have been shouting from the rooftops for years that women are being pushed into prostitution by rising poverty The recently announced inquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee into the link between Universal Credit and ‘survival sex’ is welcome. We have been shouting from the rooftops for years that more women, particularly mothers, are […]

20th March 2019

West End Extra: Protest calling for decriminalisation of sex workers ‘shuts down Soho’

Demands for legislative changes to ‘make all women safe’By Tom FootWOMEN sex workers shut down Leicester Square in a protest calling for full decriminalisation.The strike on Friday night was part of the International Women’s Day protests and backed by the feminist movement and women’s groups across the country.Student sex workers also joined the protest, which […]

19th March 2019

The Guardian: MPs to launch inquiry into ‘survival sex’ by benefit claimants

Investigation in response to evidence that poverty forcing women into prostitutionPatrick Butler Social policy editorMPs are to launch an inquiry into “survival sex” – where benefit claimants impoverished by universal credit or sanctions have turned to prostitution to pay rent or feed their families.The Commons work and pensions select committee said the investigation was in response to evidence from […]

19th March 2019

Vice: Why British Sex Workers Will Keep Pushing for Full Decriminalisation

We spoke to The English Collective of Prostitutes about their new ‘Make All Women Safe’ campaign, which takes aim at legislation that coerces women into working alone. “Nobody should ever be promoting the criminalisation of sex work without first acknowledging the danger it puts us in.” These are the words of Niki Adams, a spokeswoman […]

19th March 2019

Independent: Women doing sex work to survive due to roll-out of universal credit, MPs fear

‘There are a number of people participating in survival sex so they can feed their families or prevent loan sharks with baseball bats coming round to enforce debts,’ says Frank FieldMaya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheimWomen may be turning to sex work as a means to survive due to changes to welfare policy and the rollout of universal credit, MPs have […]

13th March 2019

Novara Media: Sidelined No Longer, Sex Workers Led the Women’s Strike

by Sophie HemeryCarried from the Bank of England to London’s Piccadilly Circus by drizzle, pop music and smoke grenades, 2019’s Women’s Strike march culminated in a performance by strippers demanding the full decriminalisation of sex work. Thousands of people danced with them, marking the end of an International Women’s Day (IWD) event that had sex workers at the […]

13th March 2019

Independent: Sex workers storm New York protest against decriminalisation of prostitution

‘Nothing about us without us”Sex workers have had a struggle to be listened to. For too long policy and law on prostitution has been dealt with without sex workers’Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent Two sex workers stormed a demonstration by women opposed to a bill which would decriminalise sex work in New York.Lawmakers have announced plans to introduce a piece […]