Experts from New Zealand and Sweden With the debate on prostitution raging in the press, and given the opportunity to hear experts from New Zealand and Sweden, it was no surprise that the meeting in Committee Room 10 of the House of Commons was packed to the rafters. 200 people were joined by 10 Peers […]
“Safety First” Against further criminalisation of sex workers in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2007 Wednesday 17 October 2-4 pmHouse of Commons, Committee Room 9 Hosted by John McDonnell MP, long-term supporter of the ECP’s work and recent contender for the leadership of the Labour Party The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2007 (CJIB) is part […]
If we are to protect sex workers, basic human rights must be allowed to triumph over the state’s moral squeamishness. You don’t have to take a Hobbesian view of the world to conclude that one of the first duties of a state to its citizens is to keep them safe. Not just some, but […]
Ziteng, Hong Kong ChinaJune 28, 2007請廣傳:一人一信反對警察洗太平地One-person-one-letter campaign against police extensive raids on one-apartment womenRecently, the police have started extensive raid on one-apartment women’s websites, flat owners. They also visit sex workers’ workplace for the survey, in which they force sex workers to provide all kinds of information. Sex workers have great worries that such police […]
PRESS RELEASEThe International Wages for Housework Campaign, and the International Women’s Count Network, is calling for the abolition of Prostitution Laws. We call for Legal, Civil and Economic rights for prostitute women in Trinidad and Tobago. Women are divided by the prostitution laws and are vulnerable before these laws. Those who enforce them take advantage […]
Joan Smith acknowledges that “women are driven into prostitution by poverty”, but doesn’t address benefit cuts, low wages, debt, lack of affordable housing, and addiction to expensive drugs. Instead, she targets clients (“Prostitutes are victims not criminals”, 13 April). She claims that police can’t deal with sex workers being beaten or raped because they are […]
Our efforts are paying off! As you know, US PROStitutes Collective and Sex Workers Outreach Project have been circulating letters, including a model letter to Senators, opposing a change in the law which would remove the need to prove “force, fraud or coercion” in trafficking charges (House Bill 3887, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection […]
2007 and 2008 and accepted by the Trade Union Congress 8. PROSTITUTION AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN This Conference recognises that the brutal murder of five young women in Ipswich just before Xmas shocked and touched people all over the country, lifting the lid on the violent world of street prostitution. Over the last 10 years […]
WOMEN’S safety campaigners warned on Thursday that Ipswich local authorities’ plans for a “zero-tolerance” policy on street prostitution will compromise prostitutes’ safety. The Safety First coalition, which is co-ordinated by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), warned that the proposals replicated almost exactly those in place before the horrific murder of five street prostitutes in […]
Contact: Cari Mitchell 020 7482 2496 / 07811 964 171 Policies which contributed to the tragic murders of five young women in Ipswich are being reintroduced The Safety First coalition is appalled at proposals of zero tolerance against clients and removal of street prostitution announced yesterday by Ipswich Local Authorities, police, health […]
