John McDonnell MPMember of Parliament for Hayes & HarlingtonWestminster Office, G10 Norman Shaw SouthHouse of CommonsLONDON SW1A 2JF Tel – 020 7219 1626 PRESS NOTICE… PRESS NOTICE…FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Labour MP welcomes Government’s u-turn on punitive prostitution plans The announcement that the government is dropping plans to introduce compulsory rehabilitation for prostitutes and the threat […]
Government feminists and Christian fundamentalists have joined forces claiming that prostitution is violence. They rightly say that attacks against prostitute women are common and that it’s only when five are murdered in one place that it starts to provoke debate.They want to criminalise men who buy sex, as Sweden has done. But prosecuting clients is […]
The UK government does not know where the majority of sex trafficked women rescued as part of two national police operations are, BBC Wales has learned.Operation Pentameter, launched by the Home Office in 2006, aimed to free an estimated 4,500 victims of trafficking forced to work in the sex industry.It was also designed to catch […]
The tragic murders of five young women in Ipswich in December last year led to an unprecedented outpouring of public concern and showed that the government, police and media are way behind where the public is at.The media was caught off guard. One Guardian journalist told us recently that she arrived in Ipswich with other […]
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 […]
